Date of Award
1993
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Helmken, Henry
Abstract
Rain attenuation is the most dominant cause of signal degradation in satellite links operating at Ka-band. A review of rain measurements and effects of rain attenuation on satellite links will be discussed and will be followed by the latest developments in prediction and modeling of rain attenuation. Then an adaptive rain fade countermeasure based on the effective utilization of the channel capacity will be presented. In order to determine the outage rates both in terms of channel capacity and bit error rate (BER), Manning's rain attenuation prediction model, based on the rain history of the transmitting and receiving stations, will be employed. Finally, a comprehensive statistical model for Land-Mobile Satellite Systems (LMSS) in the presence of rain attenuation will be proposed.
Extent
142 p.
Recommended Citation
Karimi, Kaivan Abrahim, "Effect of fading on the performance of a satellite communications link" (1993). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 427.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/427
Identifier
FADT14975
Comments
College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1993.|College of Engineering and Computer Science