Air-ground channels & models: Comprehensive review and considerations for unmanned aircraft systems

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Matolak, David W ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; AIR INTERFACE; C-BANDS; CHANNEL ATTENUATION; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL MODEL; DATA RATES; DOPPLER SPREAD; GROUND STATIONS; HIGH RELIABILITY; LOW DUTY-CYCLES; LOW-LATENCY; MODELING RESULTS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; NARROW SIGNALS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; POWER LIMITATIONS; ROBUST SIGNALS; TRANSMITTED POWER; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; WIDE-BAND;

AIRCRAFT MODELS; ANTENNAS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); NETWORK LAYERS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84861148329     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2012.6187152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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