Cell-site diversity performance of millimeter-wave fixed cellular systems operating at frequencies above 20 GHz

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 183-185

  Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a,b   Kanellopoulos, John D ^a  

^a IEEE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cell site diversity; Fixed wireless cellular systems; Rain attenuation

Indexed keywords

CELL-SITE DIVERSITY; FIXED WIRELESS CELLULAR SYSTEMS; RAIN ATTENUATION;

ATTENUATION; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 6944242011     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2002.807785     Document Type: Article

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