Title :
Worst-month rain attenuation statistics for radio wave propagation study in Malaysia
Author :
Islam, Md Rafiqul ; Rahman, Tharek A. ; Karfaa, Yasin
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., International Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
The annual worst-month rainfall and rain attenuation statistics is an important tool for the design of a reliable communication systems in a tropical region. A study of the worst-month rainfall rate and rain attenuation statistics for the Malaysian tropical climate has been presented in this paper. Conversion from average annual to worst-month statistics model proposed by ITU-R has been investigated based on one year collected rain rate and rain attenuation data. Parameters for ITU-R conversion model for Malaysian tropical climate have been proposed in this paper.
Keywords :
microwave links; microwave propagation; rain; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; ITU-R conversion model; Malaysia; attenuation; radio wave propagation; reliable communication systems; tropical region; worst-month rain attenuation statistics; Attenuation; Calendars; Design engineering; Electronic mail; Frequency; Multimedia systems; Probability; Rain; Reliability engineering; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2003. APCC 2003. The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8114-9
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.2003.1274262
