• DocumentCode
    859502
  • Title

    Stochastic Verification of the First-Order Markovian Assumption of Rain Attenuation for Satellite Channel Dynamic Modeling

  • Author

    Drougas, Athanasios E. ; Panagopoulos, Athanasios D. ; Cottis, Panayotis G.

  • Author_Institution
    Wireless & Satellite Commun. Group, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    663
  • Lastpage
    665
  • Abstract
    In this Letter, the first-order Markovian assumption for the description of the dynamic behaviour of rain attenuation is validated by means of information theoretic metrics. An accurate first-order Markov model with parameters calculated by physical inputs is also presented. The proposed method is verified by a stochastic analysis of the first-order distribution and the autocorrelation function (ACF) of the model compared to experimental data.
  • Keywords
    Markov processes; rain; satellite communication; stochastic processes; autocorrelation function; first-order Markovian assumption; rain attenuation; satellite channel dynamic modeling; stochastic verification; Attenuation; Autocorrelation; Computational complexity; Computational modeling; Fading; Rain; Random variables; Satellites; Stochastic processes; Time-varying channels; Markov modeling; Satellite communications; lognormal channels; rain attenuation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080813
  • Filename
    4623772