Gap filler architectures for seamless DVB-S2/RCS provision in the railway environment

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2996-3000

  Liva, Gianluigi ^a   Díaz, Núria Riera ^a   Scalise, Sandro ^a   Matuz, Balázs ^a   Niebla, Cristina Párraga ^a   Ryu, Joon Gyu ^b   Shin, Min Su ^b   Lee, Ho Jin ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

DVB S2 RCS mobile; Gap filler; Railroad satellite services; Tunnel propagation

Indexed keywords

FILLERS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS; SATELLITES; TUNNELS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL; BROADBAND INTERACTIVE SERVICES; CHANNEL MODELS; COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGIES; DVB-S2/RCS MOBILE; GAP FILLERS; GAP-FILLER; HIGH-SPEED TRAINS; INTERACTIVE SERVICES; ISM 2.4 GHZ; RAILROAD SATELLITE SERVICES; SATELLITE NETWORKS; TUNNEL PROPAGATION;

RAILROAD TUNNELS;

EID: 47749147751     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECS.2008.319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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