Improved rain attenuation reduction factors for tropical region

Author

Semire, Folasade Abiola ; Mohd-Mokhtar, Rosmiwati ; Ismail, Widad ; Mohamad, Nurain ; Mandeep, J.S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

1-3 July 2013

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

401

Abstract

The maximum utilization of radio spectrum is a major concern of global radio communication community. In the microwave region, rain is the significant cause of signal impairment in form of attenuation. An improved model for prediction of rain attenuation on earth to satellite path is derived using both radar and beacon data obtained from tropical region. The proposed model shows a considerable reduction in prediction error in term of standard deviation and Root Mean Square (RMS) error.

Keywords

mean square error methods; microwave propagation; radio spectrum management; rain; satellite communication; RMS error; beacon data; earth-to-satellite path; global radio communication community; improved rain attenuation reduction factor; microwave region; radar data; radio spectrum maximum utilization; rain attenuation prediction; root mean square error; signal impairment; tropical region; Attenuation; Mathematical model; Modeling; Predictive models; Rain; Spaceborne radar; beacon measurement; radar data; rain attenuation; satellite communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Space Science and Communication (IconSpace), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

ISSN

2165-4301

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IconSpace.2013.6599503

Filename

6599503