Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia

Microwave communication systems in tropical region like Malaysia, operating at higher frequency ranges, are degraded its performance severely during rains. Hence, the rain fade must be taken in consideration for the MW link design to track the service outage and quality. This paper aims to develop a...

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Main Authors: Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Altajjar, M. Laith, Mohammad Shawkat, Habib, Abdullah, Khaizuran
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Published: IEEE 2015
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author Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Altajjar, M. Laith
Mohammad Shawkat, Habib
Abdullah, Khaizuran
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description Microwave communication systems in tropical region like Malaysia, operating at higher frequency ranges, are degraded its performance severely during rains. Hence, the rain fade must be taken in consideration for the MW link design to track the service outage and quality. This paper aims to develop and propose frequency diversity Improvement Factor prediction model for rain fade mitigation from 5 – 40 GHz. The rain attenuation is predicted based on ITU-R rain attenuation prediction method using measured rain rate in Malaysia. The predicted data are analysed to develop and propose a prediction for the improvement factor. The proposed improvement factor model is investigated according to the fade margin where the frequency separation is set to 5 GHz only.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:479332017-08-18T02:04:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/ Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia Islam, Md. Rafiqul Altajjar, M. Laith Mohammad Shawkat, Habib Abdullah, Khaizuran TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Microwave communication systems in tropical region like Malaysia, operating at higher frequency ranges, are degraded its performance severely during rains. Hence, the rain fade must be taken in consideration for the MW link design to track the service outage and quality. This paper aims to develop and propose frequency diversity Improvement Factor prediction model for rain fade mitigation from 5 – 40 GHz. The rain attenuation is predicted based on ITU-R rain attenuation prediction method using measured rain rate in Malaysia. The predicted data are analysed to develop and propose a prediction for the improvement factor. The proposed improvement factor model is investigated according to the fade margin where the frequency separation is set to 5 GHz only. IEEE 2015-12-20 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/1/WIECONECE2015.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/2/cover.jpg.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/3/schedule.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/4/IEEE_WIECON_ECE_2015_Proceedings.rar Islam, Md. Rafiqul and Altajjar, M. Laith and Mohammad Shawkat, Habib and Abdullah, Khaizuran (2015) Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia. In: The IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2015 (WIECON-ECE 2015), December 19-20, 2015, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh. http://wieconece.org/ 10.1109/WIECON-ECE.2015.7443886
spellingShingle TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Altajjar, M. Laith
Mohammad Shawkat, Habib
Abdullah, Khaizuran
Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia
title Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia
title_full Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia
title_fullStr Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia
title_short Frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in Malaysia
title_sort frequency diversity improvement factor for rain fade mitigation in malaysia
topic TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/2/cover.jpg.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/3/schedule.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/47933/4/IEEE_WIECON_ECE_2015_Proceedings.rar
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