Experimental Study on Terrestrial Links Enhancement at 11 and 38 GHz

Author

Kvicera, Milan ; Pechac, Pavel ; Grabner, Martin ; Kvicera, Vaclav ; Valtr, Pavel ; Martellucci, Antonio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electromagn. Field, Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Volume

63

Issue

7

fYear

2015

fDate

Jul-15

Firstpage

3179

Lastpage

3186

Abstract

A detailed analysis of 1-year, long-term experimental measurements of signal enhancement at a terrestrial link between two cities in the Czech Republic is presented with respect to an interference and frequency coordination analysis based on recommendation ITU-R P.452-14. Three different models for terrain diffraction are considered to demonstrate a significant influence on signal enhancement predictions. The impact of radiometeorological parameters, serving as inputs for recommendation ITU-R P.452-14, was addressed by utilizing available ITU-R and ERA-Interim maps, or, their locally obtained values. Monthly and seasonal variations are discussed in addition to the 1-year signal enhancement statistics.

Keywords

radiofrequency interference; radiowave propagation; signal processing; statistical analysis; Czech Republic; ERA-Interim map; frequency coordination analysis; interference coordination analysis; long-term experimental measurements; radiometeorological parameters; recommendation ITU-R P.452-14; signal enhancement predictions; signal enhancement statistics; terrain diffraction; terrestrial links enhancement; Atmospheric measurements; Diffraction; Receiving antennas; Refractive index; Frequency coordination; interference; long-term; propagation measurements; upfading;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2015.2421940

Filename

7084102