Title :
Satellite and Terrestrial Links Rain Attenuation Time Series Generator for Heavy Rain Climatic Regions
Author :
Kanellopoulos, Sotirios A. ; Panagopoulos, A.D. ; Kourogiorgas, Charilaos I. ; Kanellopoulos, J.D.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
fDate :
6/1/2013 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new stochastic dynamic model for the generation of rain attenuation time series for fixed satellite and Line-of-sight (LOS) terrestrial links operating above 10 GHz is presented. The model´s concept originate from the classic Maseng-Bakken (M-B) approach apart that it generates Gamma distributed rain attenuation time-series and not lognormal as in M-B approach. Gamma-distributed links are typical at heavy rain climatic regions where the new model is expected to perform better than the M-B. The comparison with experimental results in terms of exceedance probability is very encouraging.
Keywords :
gamma distribution; rain; satellite links; stochastic processes; time series; classic Maseng-Bakken approach; exceedance probability; gamma distributed rain attenuation time-series; gamma-distributed links; heavy rain climatic regions; line-of-sight terrestrial links; satellite links; stochastic dynamic model; time series generator; Gamma distribution; LOS terrestrial links; rain attenuation; satellite communications; stochastic differential equations;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAP.2013.2254432
