Spatio-temporal rain attenuation model for application to fade mitigation techniques

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1245-1256

  Grémont, Boris Christian ^a   Filip, Miodrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Dynamic; Propagation; Rain; Statistics

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FADE MITIGATION TECHNIQUE; RAIN ATTENUATION MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 2942557398     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.827501     Document Type: Article

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