Rain attenuation statistics over terrestrial microwave link at 19.4 GHz at Amritsar

Author

Baldotra, Ashok Kumar ; Hudiara, I.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Communicatoin Eng., Lala Lajpat Rai Inst. of Eng. & Technol., Punjab, India

Volume

52

Issue

6

fYear

2004

fDate

6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1505

Lastpage

1508

Abstract

Rain induced attenuation at 19.4 GHz over a terrestrial path link of 2.29 km was measured for the period of one year (i.e. from January to December 2001) at Amritsar (31°36´ N 74° 52´ E). An empirical model for predicting rain-induced attenuation on terrestrial line of sight microwave link has been proposed in this paper. Experimentally measured results have been compared with those obtained using international radio communication union (ITU-R). It has been observed that our results differ from those predicted using ITU-R model.

Keywords

microwave links; microwave propagation; radiowave propagation; rain; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 19.4 GHz; 2.29 km; Amritsar; ITU-R; International Radio Communication Union; cumulative distribution; line of sight microwave link; radio wave propagation; rain induced attenuation statistics; rainfall intensity; terrestrial microwave link; Attenuation measurement; Frequency; Microwave measurements; Predictive models; Radio communication; Radio transmitters; Rain; Sea measurements; Statistics; Switches; Cumulative distribution; microwave link; radio wave propagation; rain attenuation; rainfall intensity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2004.829852

Filename

1303867