Availability Prediction of 8 PSK Digital Microwave Systems During Multipath Propagation

Analysis is presented to evaluate the worst case availability of 90 Mbit/s, 8 PSK digital microwave systems during multipath propagation. The model used in the analysis is based on the assumption that during multipath fading, the microwave energy propagates from the transmitter to the receiver via two paths, thus generating a single echo. Based on this model, three main results are found; that is 1) echo delay decreases exponentially with fade depth, 2) the worst case fade distribution follows a Rayleigh distribution, 3) the unavailability of a typical 6 GHz path during multipath propagation is unacceptably high without the use of an adaptive amplitude slope equalizer.