Title :
Ka-band land mobile satellite channel model: with rain attenuation and other weather impairments in equatorial zone
Author :
Li, Wenzhen ; Law, Choi Look ; Ong, J.T. ; Dubey, V.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
The statistical characteristics of rain attenuation in equatorial zone is investigated first. Then in comparison with Loo´s (see Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.86, no.7, p.1442-63, 1998) Ka-band weather land mobile satellite (LMS) channel model, a more reasonable LMS channel model incorporated with weather impairments is proposed based on Lutz´s (1991) LMS channel model. The PDF of the received signal and BER performance with Loo´s and our Ka-band weather LMS channel model is quantified and compared, the effect of weather impairments and rain attenuation on BER performance is also evaluated
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave absorption; error statistics; fading channels; land mobile radio; meteorology; microwave propagation; mobile satellite communication; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; BER performance; Ka-band land mobile satellite channel model; LMS channel model; PDF; equatorial zone; rain attenuation; received signal; statistical characteristics; weather impairments; Atmospheric modeling; Attenuation; Bit error rate; Electronic mail; Frequency; Least squares approximation; Optical attenuators; Rain; Satellite broadcasting; Shadow mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference Proceedings, 2000. VTC 2000-Spring Tokyo. 2000 IEEE 51st
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5718-3
DOI :
10.1109/VETECS.2000.851716
