Exploitation of the W-band for high capacity satellite communications

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 82-93

  De Fina, Silvia ^a   Ruggieri, Marina ^a   Bosisio, Ada Vittoria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTRAPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITE LINKS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DATA AND VIDEO INTERACTIVE DISTRIBUTION; ERROR CONTROL; W-BAND;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038078509     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1188895     Document Type: Article

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