Title :
Outage intensity due to multipath fading in terrestrial links
Author :
Mello, L. DaSilva ; Pontes, M.S. ; Couto de Miranda, E. ; Caste, P. V Gonzalez
Author_Institution :
Centre for Telecommun. Studies, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
Measured data of multipath fading from 20 microwave line-of-sight links, operating in the 4 and 6 GHz frequency bands, were analysed to provide statistics of fade durations as a function of the attenuation threshold. From these results, an empirical method for predicting outage intensity due to multipath propagation was derived, which shows good agreement with the measurements.
Keywords :
fading; microwave links; multipath channels; statistical analysis; attenuation threshold; frequency 4 GHz to 6 GHz; frequency bands; microwave line-of-sight links; multipath fading; multipath propagation; outage intensity; terrestrial links;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2009.0536
