Effect of rain attenuation for a 10-Gb/s 120-GHz-band millimeter-wave wireless link

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3099-3105

  Hirata, Akihiko ^a   Yamaguchi, Ryoichi ^a   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kosugi, Toshihiko ^a   Murata, Koichi ^a   Kukutsu, Naoya ^a   Kado, Yuichi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Availability; Gigabit class communication; Millimeter wave; Rain attenuation; Wireless link

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; GHZ BAND; GIGABIT-CLASS COMMUNICATION; LONG-PATH; PARSONS MODEL; RAIN ATTENUATION; RAIN RATES; WIRELESS LINK;

BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES;

RAIN;

EID: 73049117814     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2034342     Document Type: Article

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