A Nonuniform Spatial Rain Attenuation Model for Troposcatter Communication Links

Author

Dinc, Ergin ; Akan, Ozgur B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Next-generation & Wireless Commun. Lab., Istanbul, Turkey

Volume

4

Issue

4

fYear

2015

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

444

Abstract

Troposcatter communication can be used as a communication medium for beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) links. However, wave propagation in troposphere shows significant dependence on hydro-meteors: especially rain. Therefore, the main motivation of this paper is to develop a rain attenuation model for troposcatter communications, which can model nonuniform multiple rain cells for the first time. At the end, we present simulation results for the amount of rain loss and the distribution of maximum data rates under rain in troposcatter links.

Keywords

radio links; radio networks; BLOS links; beyond-line-of-sight links; hydro-meteors; nonuniform spatial rain attenuation model; troposcatter communication links; troposcatter links; Attenuation; Distribution functions; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Rain; Scattering; Wireless communication; Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS); Channel characterization and modeling; Rain attenuation; Troposcatter; beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS); channel characterization and modeling; rain attenuation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2162-2337

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LWC.2015.2433261

Filename

7108015