DocumentCode
1514876
Title
Measurements and prediction of outage intensity owing to rain attenuation
Author
da Silva Mello, L. ; Pontes, M.S. ; Couto de Miranda, E.
Author_Institution
Centre for Telecommun. Studies, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Volume
48
Issue
10
fYear
2012
Firstpage
545
Lastpage
546
Abstract
Measured data of rain attenuation from 19 terrestrial line-of-sight links, operating in frequencies from 14.5 to 83.5 GHz, were analysed to provide statistics of fade durations as a function of the attenuation threshold. From these results, an empirical method for predicting outage intensity owing to rain attenuation was derived, that shows good agreement with the measurements and allows the calculations of required link margins.
Keywords
attenuation measurement; intensity measurement; microwave measurement; millimetre wave measurement; attenuation threshold; fade durations; frequency 14.5 GHz to 83.5 GHz; outage intensity measurements; outage intensity prediction; rain attenuation; terrestrial line-of-sight links;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el.2011.3854
Filename
6198509
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