• Title of article

    MODIFICATION OF ITU-R RAIN FADE SLOPE PREDICTION MODEL BASED ON SATELLITE DATA MEASURED AT HIGH ELEVATION ANGLE

  • Author/Authors

    DAO, HASSAN International Islamic University Malaysia - Faculty of Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Malaysia , ISLAM, MD. RAFIQUL International Islamic University Malaysia - Faculty of Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Malaysia , AL-KHATEEB, KHALID International Islamic University Malaysia - Faculty of Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Malaysia

  • From page
    53
  • To page
    59
  • Abstract
    Rain fade slope is one of fade dynamics behaviour used by system engineers to design fade mitigation techniques (FMT) for space-earth microwave links. Recent measurements found that fade slope prediction model proposed by ITU-R is unable to predict fade slope distribution accurately in tropical regions. Rain fade measurement was conducted in Kuala Lumpur (3.3 N, 101.7 E) where located in heavy rain zone by receiving signal at 10.982 GHz (Ku-band) from MEASAT3 (91.5 E) on 77.4 elevation angle. The measurement has been carried out for one year period. Fade slope S parameter on ITU-R prediction model has been investigated. New parameter is proposed for the fade slope prediction modeling based on measured data at high elevation angle, Ku-band.
  • Keywords
    fade slope , ITU , R , fade mitigation techniques , sampling time interval
  • Journal title
    IIUM Engineering Journal
  • Journal title
    IIUM Engineering Journal
  • Record number

    2656054