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Rain outage performance of tandem and route diversity systems at 11 GHz 1
Author(s) -
Drufuca G.,
Torlaschi E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs012i001p00063
Subject(s) - attenuation , radar , diversity (politics) , simple (philosophy) , tandem , computer science , telecommunications , precipitation , remote sensing , environmental science , joint (building) , meteorology , physics , geology , aerospace engineering , engineering , optics , architectural engineering , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , anthropology
Long distance radio systems at 11 GHz are considered with respect to rain outage. Conventional tandem systems and simple route diversity systems are analyzed and compared on the basis of rain attenuation statistics obtained from radar observations. The comparisons appear to be very favorable to diversity systems in terms of the number of repeaters. Unfortunately, the available descriptions of joint probabilities of attenuation for pairs of radio paths allow only conservative analysis of very simple diversity systems, so that effective designs are not yet possible. Therefore, the need for further investigations on intense precipitation patterns still exists.