Using full rainfall rate distribution for rain attenuation predictions over terrestrial microwave links in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Abdulrahman, A.Y., Abdul Rahman, Tharek, Olufeagba, B. J., Islam, Md. Rafiqul
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Engineering Publishing Company 2013
• Subjects: TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/39081/1/2013_Sig_Proc_Research.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/39081/; http://www.seipub.org/spr/

The use of full rainfall rate distribution for the prediction of rain attenuation over terrestrial microwave links in Malaysia is presented in this letter. The experimental data consist of four-year measured rainfall rates and one-year rain attenuation measurements over six geographically spread DIGI MINI-LINKs operating at 15 GHz. The test results show that ITU-R model does not perform well for rain attenuation predictions in tropical Malaysian climate.