Analysis of rain fade slope for terrestrial links

Statistical Analysis of Rain Fade Slope

An analysis is made of the measured distributions of the fade slope of rain attenuation, conditional for attenuation values, measured at Eindhoven University of Technology from the satellite Olympus. It is found that the distribution is similar for positive and negative fade slopes and independent of frequency in the range from 12 to 30 GHz. A distribution model for the conditional distribution...

Statistical Analysis of Rain Fade Slope

The fade slope is a stochastic parameter and varies with time. The probability distribution of fade slope can depend on attenuation, on the drop size distribution and therefore on the type of rain, and on the wind velocity perpendicular to the path. Furthermore, if several rain cells and/or different kinds of rain may be present, the fade slope is likely to decrease with path length, and theref...

Rain attenuation predictions on terrestrial radio links: differential equations approach

The results of rain attenuation on terrestrial microwave links in a tropical climate has been reported in this paper. The results are presented in the form of rate of change of attenuation with respect to rain rate, denoted by S.R%p/. This is in turn used for predicting the expected rain attenuation at any %p of the time rain rate is exceeded in any tropical location. The predictions of the pro...

Rain Fade Compensation for Ka-Band Communications Satellites

Earth-Space Links and Fade-Duration Statistics

In recent years, fade-duration statistics have been the subject of several experimental investigations. A good knowledge of the fade-duration distribution is important for the assessment of a satellite communication system's channel dynamics: What is a typical link outage duration? How often do link outages exceeding a given duration occur? Unfortunately there is yet no model that can universal...