Title :
Diversity in low and medium Earth orbit satellite systems
Author :
Carter, P. ; Beach, M.A.
Author_Institution :
Bristol Univ., UK
Abstract :
This paper investigates the effect of low Earth orbit satellite diversity by performing a series of propagation experiments, in several environments, using the GPS satellite constellation. The results reported investigate the variation in link outage probability between satellite channels which are separated in both in azimuth and elevation. Satellite channels are then combined using the modified terrestrial handover algorithm and the resultant link outage is computed
Keywords :
diversity reception; GPS satellite constellation; azimuth; elevation; land mobile satellite channel; link outage probability; low Earth orbit; medium Earth orbit; modified terrestrial handover algorithm; propagation experiment; satellite diversity systems;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation, 1995., Ninth International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 407)
Conference_Location :
Eindhoven
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-637-7
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19950420
