Seasonal and diurnal effects on Ku-band site-diversity performance measured in a rainy tropical region

Author

Pan, Q.W. ; Allnutt, J.E.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Electron. Eng. Dept., Manukau Inst. of Technol., New Zealand

Volume

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

113

Abstract

The performance and availability of Ku-band satellite broadband and DTH services are affected by rain fades. Site-diversity is an effective form of fade countermeasure. Statistics of seasonal and diurnal variations in the occurrence of rain fades, together with the fade and inter-fade durations, are needed to give a detailed insight for system design of these services, This paper presents a year´s worth of site-diversity data measured from an equatorial mountainous coastal location and concentrates on seasonal and diurnal variation aspects. A companion paper (Pan et al., 2001) deals with joint statistics and average duration issues.

Keywords

direct broadcasting by satellite; diversity reception; fading; microwave propagation; rain; telecommunication network reliability; DTH services; Ku band; availability; diurnal variations; equatorial mountainous coastal location; fade countermeasure; inter-fade durations; performance; rain fades; rainy tropical region; satellite broadband services; seasonal variations; site diversity; Antenna measurements; Availability; Diversity methods; Electronic countermeasures; Rain fading; Receiving antennas; Satellites; Sea measurements; Statistical distributions; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7070-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2001.960045

Filename

960045