Analysis and Modeling of Time Intervals Between Rain Rate Exceedances in the Context of Fade Dynamics

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 1306-1312

  Vilar, Enric ^a   Burgueñ, August ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS - REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS, SATELLITE;

RAIN RATE EXCEEDANCES; RAIN RATE THRESHOLDS; RAINFALL FADE DYNAMICS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0026219463     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.99136     Document Type: Article

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