Measurement and Modeling of the Land Mobile Satellite Channel at Ku-Band

Author

Scalise, Sandro ; Ernst, Harald ; Harles, Guy

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Berlin

Volume

57

Issue

2

fYear

2008

fDate

3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

693

Lastpage

703

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a measurement campaign conducted in the winter of 2002 around the city of Munich in southern Germany. The primary goal was to evaluate the link performance of the land mobile satellite channel at Ku-band and to characterize the temporal behavior of the channel to help in the evaluation of different fade mitigation techniques for future mobile satellite systems that aim at employing this frequency band. To achieve this objective, first- and second-order channel statistics will be presented, the outage probability of the channel analyzed, and a Markov-chain-based narrowband channel model proposed.

Keywords

Markov processes; land mobile radio; mobile satellite communication; probability; telecommunication links; wireless channels; Ku-band; Markov chain; fade mitigation; first-order channel statistics; frequency band; land mobile satellite channel; link performance; narrowband channel; outage probability; second-order channel statistics; Ku-band; Land Mobile Satellite Channel; Radio Propagation; Satellite Mobile Communication; Statistical Modelling; land mobile satellite channel (LMSC); radio propagation; satellite mobile communication; statistical modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2007.906338

Filename

4357305