On the suitability of the 433 MHz band for M2M low-power wireless communications: Propagation aspects

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1154-1168

  Tuset Peirõ, Pere ^a,e   Anglès Vazquez, Albert ^b   Lõpez Vicario, José ^c   Vilajosana Guillén, Xavier ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Worldsensing SL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BANDWIDTH; BUDGET CONTROL; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

COMMUNICATION RANGE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR PROPAGATION; LOW POWER WIRELESS; LOW-POWER WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PROPAGATION ASPECTS; PROPAGATION MODELS;

MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84928887232     PISSN: 21615748     EISSN: 21613915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.2672     Document Type: Article

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