On the combination of tropospheric and local environment propagation effects for mobile satellite systems above 10 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1109-1120

  Liolis, Konstantinos P ^a   Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^a   Scalise, Sandro ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Land mobile satellite (LMS); Multipath fading; Rain attenuation; Ricean K factor; Temperate tropical climatic areas

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODELING; LAND MOBILE SATELLITE (LMS); LAND MOBILE SATELLITES; RAIN ATTENUATION; RICEAN K FACTOR;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949755729     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2036731     Document Type: Article

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