• DocumentCode
    493867
  • Title

    Outage intensity due to rain in terrestrial line-of-sight links

  • Author

    De Miranda, Erasmus C. ; Pontes, Marlene S. ; da Silva Mello, Luiz A R

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Metrol., Standardization & Ind. Quality - Inmetro, Rio de Janeiro
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-27 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    662
  • Lastpage
    665
  • Abstract
    This paper analysis results of measurements of fade durations due to rainfall in terrestrial line-of-sight links. The database available corresponds to 27 site-years of rainfall attenuation data measured in Brazil, Japan and Europe. Analysis of the results indicate that number of fades exceeding a given attenuation threshold follows a first order decaying exponential model. An empirical method was obtained to predict the outage intensity, associated with the number of fades with durations longer than 10 second.
  • Keywords
    radio links; rain; Brazil; Europe; Japan; database; first order decaying exponential model; outage intensity; rainfall attenuation data; terrestrial line-of-sight links; Attenuation measurement; Communication industry; Databases; Digital communication; Europe; Frequency measurement; Length measurement; Metrology; Rain; Standardization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Berlin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4753-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-3-00-024573-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5067708