Fade Dynamics Investigation Applying Statistics of Fade Duration and Level Crossing Rate

The impact of rain attenuation on wireless communication signals is predominant because of the used high frequency (above 10 GHz). The knowledge of statistics of attenuation is very important for planning point-to-point microwave links operating in high frequency band. Describing the statistics of attenuation is possible for instance with fade duration or level crossing rate. In our examination we determine these statistics from one year measured data for a given microwave link, and we are going to make an attempt to transform the level crossing rate statistic to fade duration statistic.

• Balázs Héder
• Róbert Singliar
• János Bitó

• Rain attenuation measurement
• fade duration
• level crossing rate.

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