Aerial-terrestrial communications: Terrestrial cooperation and energy-efficient transmissions to aerial base stations

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2715-2735

  Kandeepan, Sithamparanathan ^a   Gomez, Karina ^b   Reynaud, Laurent ^c   Rasheed, Tinku ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CREATE NET   (Italy)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation models; Base stations; Communication networks; Relays; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Uplink

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DISASTERS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; SATELLITES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

ADAPTATION MODELS; ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUE; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; OVERALL ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RELAYS; SATELLITE BROADCASTING; TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION; UPLINK;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84906746307     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2014.130012     Document Type: Article

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