A review on rain signal attenuation modeling, analysis and validation techniques: Advances, challenges and future direction

E Alozie, A Abdulkarim, I Abdullahi, AD Usman… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radio waves are attenuated by atmospheric phenomena such as snow, rain, dust, clouds,
and ice, which absorb radio signals. Signal attenuation becomes more severe at extremely …

Propagation measurements of a 4G LTE network in Lagoon environment

AL Imoize, TE Ogunfuwa - Nigerian Journal of Technological Development, 2019 - ajol.info
Abstract Analysis of predicted and measured path loss over a Lagoon environment is
presented. Propagation measurements were carried out at 1800 MHz, within a quarter of a …

Cumulative distributions of rainfall rate over Sumatra

HH Marzuki, T Shimomai, WL Randeu - Progress In Electromagnetics …, 2016 - jpier.org
The microwave radio links above 5 GHz suffer from attenuation due to precipitation. The
need for employing higher frequencies has therefore encouraged research into rain …

Seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model for the analysis of frequency of monthly rainfall in Osun state, Nigeria

SO Adams, B Mustapha… - Physical Science …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model is
proposed for Osun State monthly rainfall data and the analysis was based on probability …

[HTML][HTML] Attenuation of millimetre wave radio signal at worst hour rainfall rate in a tropical region: A case study, Nigeria

EF Nymphas, O Ibe - Scientific African, 2022 - Elsevier
The classical sub-6 GHz spectrum currently being used by wireless networks cannot support
the requirement of 5G and higher upcoming mobile communication networks due to its …

Rainfall rate and attenuation performance analysis at microwave and millimeter bands for the design of terrestrial line-of-sight radio links in Ethiopia

FD Diba, TJ Afullo, AA Alonge - SAIEE Africa Research Journal, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rainfall is a major cause of propagation degradation in wireless communication systems at
microwave and millimetre bands. While the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R) …

Analysis of rain rate and rain attenuation for earth-space communication links over Uyo-Akwa Ibom State

IE Afahakan, KM Udofia, MA Umoren - Nigerian Journal of Technology, 2016 - ajol.info
Rain rate and rain attenuation predictions are vital when designing microwave satellite and
terrestrial communication links, such as in the Ku and Ka bands. This paper presents the …

Study of the seasonal characteristics of rainfall rate in Southwestern Nigeria and its effect on induced attenuation in earth-satellite communications

MA Sodunke, JS Ojo, A De - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tropospheric propagation channel modeling is gaining more attention in the scientific
community, especially in the applications of the upcoming high-frequency satellite …

Year to year variation of rainfall rate and rainfall regime in Ota, southwest Nigeria for the year 2012 to 2015

TV Omotosho, OO Ometan, SA Akinwumi… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The tropics is characterized to have convective type of rainfall which has high occurrence of
rainfall compared to the temperate regions of the world. In this paper, the accumulation of …

Performance evaluation of some rain rate conversion models for microwave propagation studies

KC Igwe, OD Oyedum, MO Ajewole, AM Aibinu… - Advances in Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
An important characteristic of rainfall levels at a particular place is the statistical distribution
of rainfall rate. In this paper, 5-min integration time rainfall data for the Northcentral region of …