Comparative Analysis and Performance of Two Predictive Fade Detection Schemes for Ka-Band Fade Countermeasures

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 180-192

  Gremont, Boris ^a   Filip, Miodrag ^a,c   Gallois, Paul ^b,d   Bate, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^c Electronics Des Engineer R S   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive symbol rate; Amplitude scintillation; Detection margin; Fade countermeasure; Ka band; Predictor; Rain attenuation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FADING (RADIO); RANDOM PROCESSES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

FADE COUNTERMEASURES (FCM) SYSTEMS; FIXED DETECTION MARGINS (FDM); RAIN ATTENUATION; VARIABLE DETECTION MARGINS (VDM);

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033077883     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.748782     Document Type: Article

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