A radio system proposal for widespread low-power tetherless communications

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 324-335

  Cox, Donald C ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING, TIME DIVISION; RADIO SYSTEMS, DIVERSITY; SPEECH - CODING;

FREQUENCY REUSE SYSTEM; PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK; TDMA RADIO LINK FORMAT;

RADIO TELEPHONE;

EID: 0026106409     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.76470     Document Type: Note

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