Preliminary analysis of Ku-band rain fade data for earth-to-satellite path measured in Malaysia

The dynamic characteristics of rain fade slope are one of the important factors in the determination of the earth-to-space communication system availability. It is also useful in the design of the fade countermeasures. This paper investigates the rain fade slope which is one of the main features of...

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Published in2011 IEEE 10th Malaysia International Conference on Communications pp. 93 - 96
Main Authors Dao, H., Islam, M. R., Al-Khateeb, K., Khan, S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2011
Subjects
Attenuation
Computers
Downlink
Mathematical model
microwave link
Rain
rain attenuation
Rain fade slope
Rain fading
Scattering parameters
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Summary:The dynamic characteristics of rain fade slope are one of the important factors in the determination of the earth-to-space communication system availability. It is also useful in the design of the fade countermeasures. This paper investigates the rain fade slope which is one of the main features of fade dynamics with 0.1s, 0.5s, 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s sampling time intervals. The rain fade slope model proposed by the ITU-R was compared with the corresponding statistics obtained from rain attenuation data measured using MEASAT3 downlink at Ku-band in Malaysia during May 2010 - June 2011. Significant discrepancies have been observed between the measured fade slope data and that predicted by the ITU-R prediction model with different sampling time interval.
ISBN:1457709775
9781457709777
DOI:10.1109/MICC.2011.6150306