Title :
Duration of rain-induced fades of signal from Sirio at 11.6 GHz
Author_Institution :
Politecnico di Milano, Istituto di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Milano, Italy
Abstract :
Propagation data for significant rain events at 11.6 GHz from satellite Sirio, sampled at 0.1 s and averaged over 1 s, are processed to obtain statistics of fade durations. Two ways of defining the random process of fade duration are stressed and their statistics are given.
Keywords :
fading; radiowave propagation; rain; satellite links; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 11.6 GHz; GHz 0011.6; SHF; propagation data; rain induced fades; random process; satellite Sirio;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19810022
