Satellite Personal Communications for Future-generation Systems Fina
Consisting of selected technical contributions to the European Project COST252 (Evolution of Satellite Personal Communications from 2nd to Future Generation Systems) this volume provides many innovative results which can be the basis for new global (mobil
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Enrico Del Re and Laura Pierucci (Eds.)
Satellite Personal Communications for Future-generation Systems Final Report: COST 252 Action
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Enrico Del Re, Professor Laura Pierucci, Assistant Professor Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Satellite personal communications for future-generation systems : final report - COST 252 Action 1. Personal communication service systems 2. Artificial satellites in telecommunication - System engineering I. Del Re, Enrico, 1947- II. Pierucci, Laura 621. 3' 8456
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Preface
From December 1995 to April 2000, European COST Action 252 "Evolution of Satellite Personal Communications from Second to Future Generation Systems" promoted cooperation on this subject among many European research groups, including a significant number from central and eastern European countries. It is recognised internationally that satellite systems are necessary to provide the required global coverage of future mobile and personal communications. Within the European Union, it was therefore of strategic importance that efforts pursued at a national level be complemented and enhanced on a much larger scale by an European concerted research action aiming at the definition and development not only of an European system but also of a worldwide global
