Performance Analysis of Satellite Link Using Gaussian Mixture Model under Rain

Abstract

<p>The evolution of communication system to the next generation e.g. B5G and 6G demands an ultra-reliable performance regardless of weather conditions. Such ultra-reliable system design will require that that the effects of short-term adverse weather events on communication system has to be modelled more accurately so that system design should be dynamically adaptive to such events. The performance of satellite link is severely affected by dynamic rain attenuation and thus an accurate and reliable modelling of performance parameters is essential for dynamic fade countermeasures especially above 10 GHz. In this work, we model the energy per bit to noise spectral density ratio ($E_b/N_0$) using Gaussian Mixture (GM) model during rainy events. The developed mathematical expression is used to accurately model the bit error rate (BER), outage probability and channel capacity of the link. The average BER, upper bound on BER and average ergodic capacity of an M-ary phase shift keying scheme (MPSK) using the GM model of $E_b/N_0$ is derived to evaluate the performance of the link under such short-term weather impairments. We then show the numerical results and analysis using the GM model of the measured $E_b/N_0$ data obtained with AMoS-7 satellite at a site located in Israel. </p>