K-band land-mobile satellite channel characterization using acts

International Journal of Satellite Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 283-296

  Rice, Michael ^a   Slack, Jeffrey ^a   Humpherys, Brian ^a   Pinck, Deborah S ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

K band propagation; Land mobile satellite channel; Modelling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SATELLITE LINKS;

ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE; DATA RATE; DISCRETE TIME MODEL; FADE STATISTICS; LAND MOBILE SATELLITE CHANNEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY MODEL;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030146426     PISSN: 07372884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1247(199605)14:3<283::AID-SAT536>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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