Urban optical wireless communication networks: The main challenges and possible solutions

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Kedar, Debbie ^a   Arnon, Shlomi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE; FREE SPACE OPTICS; RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATION; URBAN OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LINKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACE OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 2542534596     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2004.1299334     Document Type: Article

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