Site diversity examination based on rain attenuation measurement

The mobile operators often use point-to-point microwave connections for feeder links in their access network. Wave propagation at the applied frequencies is highly influenced by precipitation especially by rain. Applying appropriate diversity techniques we can overcome on the problem of high outage percentage of the feeder links. In this paper after getting a short description of the countrywide measurement system, a theoretic site diversity (as a possible solution to reduce the effect of rain) is presented based on a particular rain event. Also new results on comparison the achievable diversity performances of the proposed system in case of applying a particular rain event and in case of applying one year rain attenuation measurement