Title :
Measurements and prediction of outage intensity due to multipath in terrestrial line-of-sight links
Author :
da Silva Mello, Luiz A R ; Pontes, Marlene S. ; De Miranda, Erasmus C.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Telecommun. Studies-CETUC, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
This paper presents experimental results of fade durations measurements in 20 microwave line-of-sight links in the frequency bands of 4 and 6 GHz for periods of one-year. Statistical analysis of the data provided cumulative distributions of fade depth and fade durations as well as the number of fades longer than 10 seconds for various attenuation thresholds. From the latter, an empirical method for predicting outage intensity due to multipath was derived.
Keywords :
microwave links; microwave measurement; statistical analysis; attenuation thresholds; fade depth; fade durations; frequency 4 GHz; frequency 6 GHz; microwave line-of-sight links; multipath outage intensity prediction; statistical analysis; terrestrial line-of-sight links; Antenna measurements; Attenuation; Fading; Frequency measurement; Metrology; Microwave measurements; Probability distribution; Standardization; Statistical analysis; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4753-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-3-00-024573-2
