First and second order statistics of clear-air attenuation on 11 GHz terrestrial path

Author

Grabner, Martin ; Kvicera, Vaclav ; Pechac, Pavel ; Jicha, Otakar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Freq. Eng., Czech Metrol. Inst., Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

2401

Lastpage

2404

Abstract

Received power level fluctuations are measured on the terrestrial microwave link operating in 11 GHz band. Clear-air propagation effects such as tropospheric multipath and defocusing are observed to cause fading events with occasional attenuation peaks exceeding 20 dB for 0.01% of time on the 50 km long path. First and second order statistics of clear-air attenuation fluctuations are obtained from the three year period of measured data and compared with simple statistical models.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave absorption; electromagnetic wave scattering; microwave propagation; statistical analysis; clear-air attenuation fluctuation; clear-air propagation effect; distance 50 km; first order statistics; frequency 11 GHz; received power level fluctuation measurement; second order statistics; terrestrial microwave link path; tropospheric defocusing; tropospheric multipath; Antenna measurements; Attenuation; Microwave communication; Microwave measurements; Microwave propagation; Receiving antennas; Microwave propagation; attenuation; fade slope; tropospheric multipath;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6205913

Filename

6205913