Link Adaptation for Mitigating Earth-to-Space Propagation Effects on the NASA SCaN Testbed

In Earth-to-Space communications, well-known propagation effects such as path loss and atmospheric loss can lead to fluctuations in the strength of the communications link between a satellite and its ground station. Additionally, a less-often considered effect of shadowing due to the geometry of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kilcoyne, Deirdre Kathleen
Other Authors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71362