Effect of frequency on fade slope based on rain attenuation data measured in malaysia

Author

Islam, Md Rafiqul ; Chebil, J. ; Khalifa, Othman O. ; Khan, Sheroz ; Dao, Hassan ; Zyoud, Al-Hareth

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

11-12 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Wave propagation at higher frequencies is highly influenced by rain. The measured rain attenuation data was collected from January 1999 to April 2000 at 15, 23 26, and 38 GHz frequencies for terrestrial microwave links in Malaysia. This research investigated the effects of frequency on the fade slope. The fade slope was analyzed using the measured data and it is found that the distribution for the fade slope is similar for all four frequencies and independent of frequencies.

Keywords

microwave links; microwave propagation; millimetre wave propagation; Malaysia; fade slope; frequency 15 GHz; frequency 23 GHz; frequency 26 GHz; frequency 38 GHz; rain attenuation data; terrestrial microwave links; Antennas; Attenuation; Attenuation measurement; Frequency measurement; Microwave filters; Microwave measurements; Rain; Fade slope; Microwave propagation; Rain attenuation; Terrestrial links;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6233-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556834

Filename

5556834