Title :
Outage intensity due to rain in terrestrial line-of-sight links
Author :
De Miranda, Erasmus C. ; Pontes, Marlene S. ; da Silva Mello, Luiz A R
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Metrol., Standardization & Ind. Quality - Inmetro, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
This paper analysis results of measurements of fade durations due to rainfall in terrestrial line-of-sight links. The database available corresponds to 27 site-years of rainfall attenuation data measured in Brazil, Japan and Europe. Analysis of the results indicate that number of fades exceeding a given attenuation threshold follows a first order decaying exponential model. An empirical method was obtained to predict the outage intensity, associated with the number of fades with durations longer than 10 second.
Keywords :
radio links; rain; Brazil; Europe; Japan; database; first order decaying exponential model; outage intensity; rainfall attenuation data; terrestrial line-of-sight links; Attenuation measurement; Communication industry; Databases; Digital communication; Europe; Frequency measurement; Length measurement; Metrology; Rain; Standardization;
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
