Coverage enhancement techniques for machine-to-machine communications over LTE

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 192-200

  Naddafzadeh Shirazi, Ghasem ^a   Lampe, Lutz ^a   Vos, Gustav ^b   Bennett, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Sierra Wireless Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BALLOONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR COVERAGE; CELLULAR NETWORK; MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATIONS; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS; PENETRATION LOSS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS; THIRD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT (3GPP);

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

EID: 84937845618     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7158285     Document Type: Article

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