Rain attenuation statistics for a 120-GHz-band wireless link

Author

Hirata, Akihiko ; Takahashi, Hiroyuki ; Kosugi, Toshihiko ; Murata, Koichi ; Naoya, Kukutsu ; Kado, Yuichi

Author_Institution

NTT Microsyst. Integration Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

7-12 June 2009

Firstpage

933

Lastpage

936

Abstract

Results of a propagation study focused on rain attenuation on 120-GHz band wireless link are presented. The 120-GHz band wireless link with V polarization was operated on a 400-m long path from December 2007 to September 2008 in Atsugi, Japan. The rain rate distribution for Atsugi is in good agreement with the conditional M distributions. As for rain attenuation, the effect of water on the antenna radome is large, and the experimental results coincide with the ITU and L-P model. Cumulative distributions of attenuation and BER deterioration due to rain were obtained.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; error statistics; millimetre wave propagation; radio links; radomes; rain; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; Atsugi; BER deterioration; Japan; V polarization; antenna radome; conditional M distributions; frequency 120 GHz; propagation study; rain attenuation statistics; rain rate distribution; water effect; wireless link; Attenuation; Availability; Bit error rate; Ethernet networks; Intelligent sensors; Monitoring; Optical transmitters; Rain; Sea measurements; Statistics; Wireless link; availability; gigabit-class communication; millimeter-wave; rain attenuation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2009. MTT '09. IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2803-8

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2009.5165851

Filename

5165851