Fade Countermeasures and Adaptive Resource Sharing for an Experimental TDMA Satellite Communications System Operating at Ka-Band

European Transactions on Telecommunications

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 561-568

  Schnell, Michael ^a   Von Hugo, Dirk ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FADING (RADIO); RADIO TRANSMISSION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

ADAPTIVE RESOURCE SHARING; FADE COUNTERMEASURES;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032279762     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.4460090610     Document Type: Article

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