Statistics of total attenuation and fade dynamics from measurements in Toulouse of the 19.7 GHz beacon of Eutelsat Hot Bird 6

Author

Boulanger, X. ; Carrie, G. ; Castanet, L. ; Casadebaig, L. ; Gabard, B.

Author_Institution

CNES, Toulouse, France

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

85

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to briefly present the statistical analysis of a new propagation experiment carried out by ONERA in Toulouse from the 19.7 GHz beacon of the Eutelsat Hot Bird 6 satellite. A beacon Earth station, a profiling radiometer and a rain gauge were deployed and 2 years of beacon data have been collected, processed and analysed. This paper presents the statistical results obtained in terms of Cumulative Distribution Functions of rain rate, beacon total attenuation and fade dynamics. Then, the rain attenuation time series channel model ITU-R P.1853 will be compared to the measurements.

Keywords

attenuation measurement; data analysis; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; satellite communication; statistical analysis; Eutelsat Hot Bird 6; ONERA; Toulouse; beacon Earth station; beacon data analysis; beacon data collection; beacon data processing; cumulative distribution functions; fade dynamics statistics; frequency 19.7 GHz; profiling radiometer; rain gauge; statistical analysis; total attenuation statistics; Antennas; Conferences; Europe; Eutelsat Hot Bird 6; Ka-band; attenuation; beacon measurement; propagation; radiometer; rain;

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.2012.6206630

Filename

6206630