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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Main Authors: Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Lwas, Ali Kadhim, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi
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Published: 2017
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spelling iium-601732018-01-23T04:11:34Z 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
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topic TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
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
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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author Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Lwas, Ali Kadhim
Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi
author_facet Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Lwas, Ali Kadhim
Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi
author_sort Islam, Md. Rafiqul
title 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_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_sort site diversity gain for earth-to-satellite links using rain intensity measurement
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/1/364-819-1-PB.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/60173/7/Site%20diversity%20gain%20for%20earth-to-satellite%20links%20using%20rain%20intensity%20measurement.pdf
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