Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement
Site diversity technique is effective method to overcome rain attenuation, mostly in the tropics where high precipitation is predominant. The method is analyzed based on measurements in two locations separated by 37.36 Km in Malaysia. From concurrent measured rain intensities of two locations at IIU...
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| author | Islam, Md Rafiqul Lwas, Ali Kadhim Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi |
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| description | Site diversity technique is effective method to overcome rain attenuation, mostly in the tropics where high precipitation is predominant. The method is analyzed based on measurements in two locations separated by 37.36 Km in Malaysia. From concurrent measured rain intensities of two locations at IIUM and UKM for one year, it was found that only ten concurrent events had occurred containing highest rain intensities of 18 mm/h with outage probability of 0.00154% on two locations out of about 381 events experienced over one year period. These findings will be very useful for Earth-to-satellite link designers to improve reliability by applying site diversity as a rain fade mitigation technique at any frequency.
Keywords: Site diversity technique, Rain intensity, Site diversity gain, Perdiction models |
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| spelling | iium-601732025-01-22T02:16:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/ Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement Islam, Md Rafiqul Lwas, Ali Kadhim Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Site diversity technique is effective method to overcome rain attenuation, mostly in the tropics where high precipitation is predominant. The method is analyzed based on measurements in two locations separated by 37.36 Km in Malaysia. From concurrent measured rain intensities of two locations at IIUM and UKM for one year, it was found that only ten concurrent events had occurred containing highest rain intensities of 18 mm/h with outage probability of 0.00154% on two locations out of about 381 events experienced over one year period. These findings will be very useful for Earth-to-satellite link designers to improve reliability by applying site diversity as a rain fade mitigation technique at any frequency. Keywords: Site diversity technique, Rain intensity, Site diversity gain, Perdiction models 2017-12-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/1/364-819-1-PB.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/7/Site%20diversity%20gain%20for%20earth-to-satellite%20links%20using%20rain%20intensity%20measurement.pdf Islam, Md Rafiqul and Lwas, Ali Kadhim and Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi (2017) Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI), 5 (4). pp. 330-338. ISSN 2089-3272 http://section.iaesonline.com/index.php/IJEEI/issue/current 10.11591/ijeei.v5i4.364 |
| spellingShingle | TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Islam, Md Rafiqul Lwas, Ali Kadhim Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| title | Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| title_full | Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| title_fullStr | Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| title_short | Site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| title_sort | site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement |
| topic | TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television |
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