Modeling the radio frequency environment of Mars for future wireless, networked rovers and sensor webs

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1329-1335

  Chukkala, Vishwanath ^a   De Leon, Phillip ^a   Horan, Stephen ^a   Velusamy, Vijayakumar ^a  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RATES; RADIO FREQUENCY; SENSOR WEBS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO WAVES; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 11244334224     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2004.1367731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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