New method for the prediction of rain attenuation in terrestrial links using the concept of effective rainfall rate

Author

Mello, Luiz A R da Silva ; Pontes, Marlene S. ; De Souza, Rodolfo S L

Author_Institution

Center for Telecommun. Studies, Rio de Janeiro

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 1 2007

Firstpage

899

Lastpage

901

Abstract

A semi-empirical method for the prediction of rain attenuation in terrestrial links is presented in this paper. The proposed method is simple to apply and uses the concept of an effective rainfall rate and the full rainfall rate cumulative probability distribution to predict the attenuation distribution. Test results indicate that the proposed method provides significant improvement over the current ITU-R method and other methods available in the literature.

Keywords

millimetre wave propagation; rain; statistical distributions; weather forecasting; attenuation distribution; cumulative probability distribution; rain attenuation; rainfall rate; terrestrial links; Attenuation measurement; Extrapolation; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave propagation; Millimeter wave technology; Prediction methods; Probability distribution; Radio propagation; Rain; Testing; Rain; attenuation; climate; millimeter wave radio propagation; prediction methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2007. IMOC 2007. SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Brazil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0661-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2007.4404401

Filename

4404401