학술논문

Statistical Modeling of Atmospheric Propagation Channel at W-Band Through Sun-Tracking Microwave Radiometric Measurements for Non-Geostationary Satellite Links
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on. 71(9):7512-7522 Sep, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Transportation
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Atmospheric measurements
Attenuation
Antenna measurements
Microwave radiometry
Atmospheric modeling
Temperature measurement
Sun
Millimeter waves
radiopropagation models
slant path attenuation
Sun-tacking microwave radiometry
Language
ISSN
0018-926X
1558-2221
Abstract
In this work, we propose a model for the probability density function (pdf) of the elevation angle and the pdf of the attenuation conditioned to the elevation angle at the W-band and in all weather conditions. The proposed models are suitable to retrieve the pdf of the total attenuation at variable elevation for application to non-geostationary (NGEO) satellite communication (SatCom) links at W-band. The models, based on the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution, were developed and tested exploiting W-band Sun-tracking (ST) microwave radiometer (MWR) measurements available from two independent measurements campaigns in Milan (IT) and Rome (NY, USA), the only two datasets available in the world to date. The obtained results are satisfactory with a good agreement between models and measurements and highlighting a potential relationship between the GEV parameters and the local climatology.