Title :
Availability and performance of satellite links suffering from interference by an adjacent satellite and rain fades
Author :
Livieratos, S.N. ; Ginis, G. ; Cottis, P.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
fDate :
2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An analysis is presented relating rain attenuation statistics to BEP performance of Earth-space links subjected to interference by an adjacent satellite operating in the same frequency band. A systematic design method is proposed that takes into account the BER objectives specified by the ITU for the design of satellite links. Numerical results based on the proposed method have been obtained to investigate the combined effect of rain and interference for the Ku and Ka bands and for various data rates and climatic zones
Keywords :
adjacent channel interference; electromagnetic wave absorption; error statistics; fading; log normal distribution; microwave propagation; rain; satellite links; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; BEP performance; BER; Earth-space links; ITU; Ka band; Ku band; adjacent satellite; availability; binary PSK modulation; climatic zones; data rates; frequency band; interference; lognormal distribution; rain attenuation statistics; rain fades; satellite links; systematic design method;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
DOI :
10.1049/ip-com:19990285
