Characterization of user mobility in Low Earth Orbit Mobile Satellite Systems

Wireless Networks

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 165-179

  Del Re, Enrico ^a   Fantacci, Romano ^a,b   Giambene, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Department of Telecommunication Network ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MOBILE ANTENNAS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

LOW EARTH ORBIT MOBILE SATELLITE SYSTEMS (LEO-MSS);

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034224544     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019181312967     Document Type: Article

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