Recent Propagation Studies in Japan

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 7-13

  Manabe, Takeshi ^a   Furuhama, Yoji ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SATELLITE RELAY SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

JAPAN; MOBILE SATELLITE RADIO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; RADIO METEOROLOGY; WIDEBAND INDOOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0028531162     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.334916     Document Type: Article

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