Multipath effects due to rain at 30-50 GHz frequency communication links
This study makes predictions about signal degradation along terrestrial radio links, operated at wide bandwidth and 30-50-GHz frequencies, caused by inhomogeneities in fairly severe rain storms. While the line-of-sight path may experience moderate to severe attenuation, the real problem at hand is t...
Saved in:
Published in | IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 41; no. 8; pp. 1132 - 1138 |
---|---|
Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York, NY
IEEE
01.08.1993
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Summary: | This study makes predictions about signal degradation along terrestrial radio links, operated at wide bandwidth and 30-50-GHz frequencies, caused by inhomogeneities in fairly severe rain storms. While the line-of-sight path may experience moderate to severe attenuation, the real problem at hand is to estimate the effect of multipath via scatterings from rain drops on side paths. These longer-path contributions can cause pulse distortions and related high-bandwidth effects which are deleterious to the information content, even upon successful reception of attenuated signals. The results show that significant degradation of high-bandwidth signals accompanying attenuations of more than approximately 40 dB are possible under intermittent rainfall conditions.< > |
---|---|
Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0018-926X 1558-2221 |
DOI: | 10.1109/8.244655 |