Service oriented statistics of interruption time due to rainfall in earth-space communication systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2083-2090

  Matricciani, Emilio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXTRAPOLATION; FADING (RADIO); MICROWAVES; RAIN; STATISTICS;

CHANNEL UNAVAILABILITY; DIURNAL CYCLES; EARTH SPACE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADE DURATION; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; RAIN ATTENUATION; RAIN RATE DATABASE; SERVICE ORIENTED STATISTICS; SERVICE UNAVAILABILITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 4344676998     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.832374     Document Type: Article

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