Minimal cost coverage planning for single frequency networks

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-87

  Ligeti, Agnes ^b   Zander, Jens ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TELEVISION ANTENNAS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TELEVISION INTERFERENCE; TELEVISION PICTURE QUALITY; TELEVISION TRANSMITTERS;

DIGITAL AUDIO BROADCASTING; DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK;

TELEVISION NETWORKS;

EID: 0033097128     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/11.754986     Document Type: Article

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