EHF for satellite communications: The new broadband frontier

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1858-1881

  Cianca, Ernestina ^a   Rossi, Tommaso ^a   Yahalom, Asher ^b   Pinhasi, Yosef ^b   Farserotu, John ^c   Sacchi, Claudio ^d  

^a University of Rome âTor Vergata'   (Italy)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CSEM   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extremely high frequency (EHF); satellite communications; satellite networking

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ORBITS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES;

BANDWIDTH AVAILABILITY; BROADBAND TRANSMISSION; EXTREMELY HIGH FREQUENCIES; PROPAGATION MODELING; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SATELLITE NETWORKING; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

SATELLITE LINKS;

EID: 80054966005     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2158765     Document Type: Article

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