LMDS diversity systems: A new performance model incorporating stratified rain

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-147

  Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a   Arapoglou, Pantelis Daniel M ^b   Chatzarakis, George E ^a   Kanellopoulos, John D ^b   Cottis, Panayotis G ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diversity reception; LMDS systems; Radio propagation; Stratified rain

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CELL SITE DIVERSITY; LOCAL MULTIPOINT DISTRIBUTION SERVICE (LMDS) SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL PREDICTION MODEL; STRATIFIED RAIN;

RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 14044250122     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.02015     Document Type: Article

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