Design of flower constellations for telecommunication services

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2008-2019

  Mortari, Daniele ^a   De Sanctis, Mauro ^b   Lucente, Marco ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Hospital Tor Vergata Roma   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flower Constellations (FCs); orbit control; satellite communication systems; Walker Constellations

Indexed keywords

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS (CIRCUIT SWITCHING); ORBITS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; FLOWER CONSTELLATIONS; NETWORK INTERCONNECTIONS; ORBIT CONTROLS; ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS; SATELLITE CONSTELLATION DESIGNS; SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS; WALKER CONSTELLATIONS;

DESIGN;

EID: 80054973139     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2158766     Document Type: Article

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