A novel approach to model the land mobile satellite channel through reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 532-542

  Alasseur, Clémence ^b   Scalise, Sandro ^a,c   Husson, Lionel ^a,d   Ernst, Harald ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; Ku band; Land mobile satellite channel; Reversible jump Monte Carlo Markov chain

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

LAND MOBILE SATELLITE CHANNEL; REVERSIBLE JUMP MONTE CARLO MARKOV CHAIN; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 39749129678     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.05544     Document Type: Article

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