Satellite communication is a promising transmission technique to implement 5G and beyond
networks. Attenuation due to rain begins at a frequency of 10 GHz in temperate regions …

The current past has seen a sensational increment in the utilization of satellites for the
applications like navigation, entertainment, media transmission, remote sensing, mobile …

An improved approach of predicting rain attenuation cumulative distribution (CD) over
terrestrial microwave links operating in tropical regions is presented in this article. The …

Propagation of radio waves between terrestrial and earth-space links at frequencies above
10 GHz are adversely affected by weather, especially rain. Rain-induced attenuation is an …

Rain attenuation is a major source of impairment to signal propagation at microwave and
millimeter wave bands. The procedures for the estimation of rain attenuation value regard to …

Severe tropical weather dynamics impairments on the earth-sky signal quality at the Ku-
band relative to temperate weather increase the demand for land mobile satellite (LMS) …

The results of rain attenuation on terrestrial microwave links in a tropical climate has been
reported in this paper. The results are presented in the form of rate of change of attenuation …

Substantial modifications have been made to the expressions for calculating distance factor
and extrapolation techniques in the latest ITU-R P. 530-14. However, its performance has …

The dynamic weather condition is a major concern for optimum channel utilization in recent
times, especially at higher frequencies with larger bandwidth for 5G applications. Over the …

Rain constitutes a major limitation to the performance and use of terrestrial and satellite
communication systems with operational frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The situation …