Rain attenuation in satellite communication systems operating at Ka band frequencies is more severe than usually experienced at lower frequency bands [5].
Due to its
rain attenuation proportionality properties to range, our short range simulation and measurement results will lead us to estimate the rain effects for longer range as 5G realistic applications.
Impact Of Elevation Angle on
Rain Attenuation In Satellite Communications by Syed Nauman Ahmed and Dr.
Rain attenuation becomes the more dominant factor as the higher frequency and should be considered.
Chandrasekar, 2005: Correction of radar reflectivity and differential reflectivity for
rain attenuation at X band.
Research of seasonal
rain attenuation and radio waves fading in LOS links at 19.5 GHz on South Africa terrain are presented in [5].
The previous research of DSD using data obtained from Kuala Lumpur by Lam [17] focused on investigating the dependence of the
rain attenuation on the DSD and finding the key raindrop diameter for computing specific
rain attenuation, rather than establishing the relationships of DSD in the region with defined equation's fittings and coefficients.
Combining Equations (6) and (7) yields a new equation that obtains the PER according to the
rain attenuation values, as expressed in Equation (8).
It should be noted that the most common reference available in calculating
rain attenuation often uses rain intensity R, probably because of a scarcity of rain drop size data.
Shukla, "
Rain attenuation modeling in the 10-100 GHz frequency using drop size distributions for different climatic zones in tropical India," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol.