Rain outage prediction for GSM networks in Pakistan

Voice communication is effected by a number of factors especially the rain, as it causes the severe fading of the receive signal level. Fading is a function of frequency, polarization and path length and the actual amount of fading is dependent on the frequency of the signal and the size of the raindrop. This proposed outage prediction model is used not only to predict microwave radio link performance but will also be useful in calculating the link degradations due to interference issues. The main focus of this research work has been done keeping in mind the GSM Transmission networks of Pakistan. Experimental results show a 0.05-3% Outage deviation in the results when compared to the Pathloss prediction model, designed on ITU recommendation P530.7/8.