Open AccessStudy of rain attenuation effects for 5G Mm‐wave cellular communication in tropical location
Author(s) -
Nandi Dalia,
Maitra Animesh
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
iet microwaves, antennas and propagation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.555
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1751-8733
pISSN - 1751-8725
DOI - 10.1049/iet-map.2017.1029
Subject(s) - attenuation , rain rate , environmental science , extremely high frequency , meteorology , path loss , remote sensing , atmospheric sciences , temperate climate , physics , geology , telecommunications , computer science , optics , ecology , biology , wireless
Millimetre (mm)‐wave communication is a viable solution to the future 5G cellular services. For different temperate locations, rain attenuation does not contribute significantly to the overall path loss at the mm‐wave band for a small cell size of 200 m. However, in various tropical locations, the rain attenuation effect cannot be ignored even for this small cell size of the system. If the authors increase either frequency or path length, the attenuation increases significantly under tropical raining conditions. In this study, time series of predicted rain rate values are used for real‐time prediction of rain attenuation over terrestrial paths.