Ka-band land mobile satellite channel model incorporating weather effects

Author

Li, Wenzhen ; Law, Choi Look ; Dubey, V.K. ; Ong, J.T.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

5

Issue

5

fYear

2001

fDate

5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

196

Abstract

A Ka-band land mobile satellite (LMS) channel model which is able to take into account weather impairments is proposed. The statistics of the received signal and the BER performance of the system under the proposed channel model are obtained and compared with the results generated using Loo´s weather-affected LMS channel model. The proposed Ka-band (20/30 GHz) LMS channel model is shown to be more reasonable as it gives realistic results.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; meteorology; microwave propagation; mobile satellite communication; multipath channels; rain; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 20 GHz; 30 GHz; BER performance; Ka-band LMS channel model; Ka-band land mobile satellite channel model; Rayleigh characteristic; SHF; intermittent rain; lognormal distribution; multipath fading; radiowave propagation; rain; received signal statistics; thunderstorm; tropospheric condition; weather effects; Attenuation; Fading; Frequency; Least squares approximation; Rain; Rayleigh channels; Satellite broadcasting; Shadow mapping; Statistics; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4234.922757

Filename

922757