Long-term rain attenuation probability and site diversity gain prediction formulas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2307-2313

  Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a   Arapoglou, Pantelis Daniel M ^a   Kanellopoulos, John D ^a   Cottis, Panayotis G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Rain attenuation probability; Satellite communications; Site diversity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN ATTENUATION PROBABILITY; SITE DIVERSITY;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 23044481606     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.850762     Document Type: Article

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