| Summary: | An improved approach of predicting rain attenuation cumulative distribution (CD) over terrestrial microwave links
operating in tropical regions is presented in this article. The proposed method offers a better extrapolation
approach for determining the values of rain attenuation at different exceedance probability from the measured
attenuation at 0.01% of the time. The experimental data consist of measured rainfall rates and rain attenuation over
six geographically spread DIGI MINI-LINKs operating at 15 GHz in Malaysia. A new set of numerical coefficients was
derived for improved rain attenuation CD predictions in the Malaysian tropical climate. In order to test the
applicability of the proposed extrapolation method, a validation was performed using rain rate and rain attenuation measurements from five Brazilian and seven Nigerian tropical locations. When tested against measurements, the proposed method seems to provide a significant improvement over the current extrapolation method adopted by ITU-R Recommendations P.530-14, for the prediction of rain attenuation CD over tropical regions.
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