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News
August 8, 2022
On August 2, 2022 at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity, one of...
October 1, 2021
Video streaming is a highly competitive market that dominates internet traffic. Video consumes 65% of worldwide mobile downstream traffic....
September 16, 2021
The Video Quality Research Program has launched an interactive web demo of ITS-developed software that estimates the quality of...
Recent Publications
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NTIA Technical Report TR-22-561: Outdoor Propagation Measurements in the 37–40 GHz Band in Boulder, Colorado August 2022, Jeffery A. Wepman; Linh P. Vu; Edward F. Drocella Jr.; John D. Ewan; Kenneth J. Brewster; Paul M. McKenna. Line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS), continuous-wave (CW), mobile outdoor propagation measurements were performed in the 37–40 GHz band in a small city downtown environment (Boulder, Colo...
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Conference Paper : Estimating the Local Mean Voltage of a Radio Signal in a Mobile Channel August 2022, Robert T. Johnk; John J. Lemmon. This paper examines the estimation of the local mean voltage of a radio signal in a Rayleigh fast-fading environment. We focus on the statistical uncertainties of local voltage averages obtained by bo...
This Month in ITS History
August 1912: Federal Regulation of U.S. Airwaves Begins
On August 13,1912, Congress passed the Radio Act of 1912 (Public Law 264), the first federal regulation on all radio transmissions in the United States. Prompted by the Titanic disaster earlier in the year this bill mandated trained radio users to monitor distress signals for any passenger ship in American waters. The Radio Act also required all broadcasters to receive a license. The provision was intended to reduce interference on emergency stations but it shaped broadcast radio, which was still in its infancy. The act gave the power of licensing and enforcement to the Department of Commerce and Labor (the Department of Labor was spun off in 1913). Commerce and Labor could impose fines of u ...