Availability and performance of single/multiple site diversity satellite systems under rain fades

European Transactions on Telecommunications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-65

  Livieratos, Spiros N ^a   Cottis, Panayotis G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 0041914641     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.4460120107     Document Type: Article

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