Time diversity gain analysis for earth to satellite link based on measured rain rate

• Main Authors: Alam, Md Moktarul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Badron, Khairayu, Abdul Rahman, Farah Diyana, Lwas, Ali Kadhim, Dao, Hassan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: IEEE Explore 2018
• Subjects: TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/69076/1/69076_Time%20Diversity%20Gain%20Analysis.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/69076/2/69076_Time%20Diversity%20Gain%20Analysis_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/69076/; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8539317

Earth–to-satellite links are highly affected by propagation impairments especially by rain that operate at frequencies higher than 10 GHz. Therefore, the satellite communication system performance suffers from severe degradation at high frequencies in tropical and equatorial climate. Time diver...