Title :
Simulation of atmospheric turbulence effects on terrestrial millimeter wave links
Author :
Vasseur, H ; Vanhoenacker, D.
Author_Institution :
Microwaves Laboratory U.C.L., Batiment Maxwell - Place du Levant, 3 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium FAX: +3210 47 87 05
Abstract :
The Microwaves Laboratory has been involved for more than ten years in the study of scintillation occurring on signals propagating on a slant-path. A new model has been developed for the evaluation of the impact of turbulence on line-of-sight links. The originality of this model is its deterministic nature, that enables the evaluation of an atmospheric channel transfer function used in link simulation programs to predict the impact of scintillation on communication systems. The model is based on the physical mechanism of turbulence in the lower atmosphere and allows to simulate scintillation events in agreement with both theory and experimental results.
Keywords :
Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Atmospheric waves; Communication systems; Laboratories; Microwave propagation; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave propagation; Predictive models; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 1993. 23rd European
Conference_Location :
Madrid, Spain
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.1993.336828
