A Ray-Based Channel Modeling Approach for MIMO Troposcatter Beyond-Line-of-Sight (b-LoS) Communications

Troposcatter can be used as a communication medium for beyond-Line-of-Sight (b-LoS) links. However, available troposcatter channel models do not provide comprehensive channel modeling especially at high frequencies. Therefore, the main motivation of this study is to develop a ray-based MIMO troposcatter channel model to analyze transmission-loss characteristics, coherence bandwidth and correlation between antennas for the first time in the literature for troposcatter communications. In addition, the link budget calculations and the distribution of capacity in troposcatter links are provided by using real world water vapor mixing ratio measurements.