Land Mobile Satellite Channel Measurements and Modeling

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1442-1462

  Loo, Chun ^a   Butterworth, John S ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Mobile communications and radio propagation; Satellite communications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHANNEL MODELING; LAND MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 0032124233     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.681373     Document Type: Article

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