Abstract
WiMAX communication systems operating at 2.6 G frequencies are used for broadband multimedia and internet based services. At these frequencies, the signal will be affected by various propagation impairments such as rain attenuation, cloud attenuation, tropospheric scintillation, ionospheric scintillation, water vapour attenuation, and rain and ice depolarization. Among all the pro-pagation impairments, rain attenuation is the most important and critical parameter. In this research, rain attenuation is calculated at KNUST, Kumasi using ITU-R rain attenuation model. The preliminary results of the work will be used to calculate the attenuation experimentally and comparison can be made, which helps to develop a new rain attenuation model at 2.6 G bands. Rain attenuation is an important aspect of signal propagation above 2.6 GHz frequency. The attenuation time series generation from point rain rate measurement is crucial due to unavailability of actual signal measurements. In this research, a simple and realistic approach has been demonstrated for better estimation of rain attenuation using WiMAX-band signal propagation data and ground rain rate measurements in Ghana. The ITU-R model of rain attenuation has been modified by incorporating an effective slant path model. The effective slant path has been estimated and modeled in terms of a power-law relationship of rain rate data of 2007-2008. The methodology has been validated with the measured data of 2014. Comparison with ITU-R and GMET clearly demonstrates the improved predictability of the proposed model at the present tropical location.
Highlights
Atmospheric effects play a major role in the design of satellite-to-earth links operating at frequencies above 2.6How to cite this paper: Fiati, P. (2015) Rain Attenuation Effects on 2.6 GHz WiMAX Networks Deployment in Ghana
Rain rate and rain attenuation contour maps have been developed for 0.1% and 0.01% of the time using the refined Moupfouma model for rain rate maps and International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-R 618 for the rain attenuation maps over Ghana
The 0.1% of time of rain attenuation is needed for WiMAX network service-availability
Summary
How to cite this paper: Fiati, P. (2015) Rain Attenuation Effects on 2.6 GHz WiMAX Networks Deployment in Ghana. An appropriate distribution of rainfall rate at 1-minute integration time is needed for the site under studied in order to predict accurate rain attenuation for the location This input is sometime provided by meteorological and environmental agencies, universities, and independent researchers. The critical role of the propagation impairment on communication systems cum lack of rain-measurement data from tropical regions for verification for modeling purposes has been the concern of many organizations like, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), European Space Agency (ESA), and European cooperative program (COST) among others This has become necessary because of the peculiarity of the tropical regions, which are characterized by high intensity rainfall, enhanced frequency of rain occurrence and the increased presence of large raindrops when compared with temperate climates [8]. These percentages unavailability of time are crucial for communication purposes, the need for this work
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