Adjacent satellite interference effects as applied to the outage performance of an earth-space system located in a heavy rain climatic region

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 57, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 925-942

  Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a   Kanellopoulos, John D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Gamma distribution; Outage; Probability calculus; Rain; Satellite telecommunication; Signal interference; Tropica zone

Indexed keywords

CARRIER-TO-NOISE PLUS INTERFERENCE RATIO; CONVECTIVE RAINCELL; EARTH-SPACE SYSTEM; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; RAIN ATTENUATION; SATELLITE INTERFERENCE EFFECT; ATTENUATION; CLIMATIC REGIONS; EARTH-SPACE SYSTEMS; HEAVY RAINS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; OUTAGE PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY CALCULUS; SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATION; TROPICAL ZONES;

ATTENUATION; CALCULATIONS; FADING (RADIO); MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RAIN;

EID: 0036765958     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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