Prediction of diversity statistics on terrestrial microwave links

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Paulson, Kevin S ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Rain fade; Rain statistics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; CALCULATIONS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIVERSITY STATISTICS; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE LINKS;

MICROWAVE LINKS;

EID: 0042885893     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001RS002547     Document Type: Article

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