A statistical approach to generate propagation fade time series

A methodology is presented to generate a propagation fade time series based on the hypothesis that the fade rate statistics fully determine the attenuation and the fade duration statistics and thus allow to generate time series not only replicating statistically the events of a measured fade time series but also allowing to generate events embedded into its statistics but not evidenced. The approach is relying on the availability of measured time series. The results of this work in progress show that the approach is promising. The fade duration statistics results are not conclusive but the time correlation of the generated and reference time series tends to indicate a good representation. The methodology can be used in computer simulations to test the performance of rain fade countermeasure algorithms over many more fading events than there are in the measured time series as well as over fading events not present but statistically probable.