Gateway switching in Q/V band satellite feeder links

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1384-1387

  Gharanjik, Ahmad ^a   Rao, Bhavani Shankar Mysore Rama ^a   Arapoglou, Pantelis Daniel ^c   Ottersten, Björn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feeder Link; Gateway Switching; Q V Band; Satellite Communication; Switch and Stay Combining

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; BROADBAND SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; FEEDER LINK; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; Q/V BAND; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SWITCH-AND-STAY COMBINING; TRANSMIT DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE LINKS;

FEEDING;

EID: 84881104563     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2013.052413.130632     Document Type: Article

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