Validation of the Synthetic Storm Technique as Part of a Time-Series Generator for Satellite Links

Sanchez-Lago, I.; Fontán, F.P.; Mariño, P.; Fiebig, U.-C.

doi:10.1109/lawp.2007.902810

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“…of the synthetic storm technique (SST), whose theory has been developed by Matricciani, 1 after Drufuca's studies on terrestrial radio links. 2 The SST predictions match pretty well not only long-term first-order statistics (ie, cumulative distribution functions) in temperate, 3 tropical, 4 and equatorial 5 regions but also single event time series 6 as well as fade duration statistics, 7 particularly in temperate climates. In fact, the studies for tropical/equatorial climate is not very well documented in the literature.…”

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Performance of synthetic storm technique in estimating fade dynamics in equatorial Malaysia

Jong

Riva

D’Amico

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Satell Commun Network

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Summary In this paper, the synthetic storm technique (SST) is applied to 1‐minute rainfall rate collected from a rain gauge to predict the fade dynamics of the signal in an earth‐to‐satellite link in an equatorial climate location without the needs of satellite beacon measurements. The obtained results are compared with the statistics calculated from measured rain attenuation and with the ITU recommendation model. As for fade duration, a good agreement with measurements has been found together with a significant improvement in terms of prediction errors with respect to the ITU‐R model. Synthetic storm technique is also able to predict fade slope statistics fairly well and has equivalent performance of ITU‐R model.

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“…The SST has been already proved to be accurate in the prediction of the first‐order rain attenuation statistics in different climates. Moreover, the SST has been shown to well predict long‐term fade duration and fade slope statistics predicted only in temperate regions up to now.…”

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Performance of synthetic storm technique in estimating fade dynamics in equatorial Malaysia

Jong

Riva

D’Amico

et al. 2018

Satell Commun Network

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“…The efficacy of this method is well-documented for temperate regions [2], [3], [4] in a few cases for tropical regions [21], [22], and fewer still for the subtropics. The comparison of SST results presented here is with the average bound of measured subtropical rain attenuation, where link impairment levels are most practical [7].…”

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“…The Synthetic Storm Technique (SST) is a theoretical approach for estimating rain fade and has been widely applied to both terrestrial and slant path links [2], [3], [4]. The term was first used in [5] for describing a method by which data generated from a rain gauge is used to predict rain rate at a different location by using an estimate of cloud advection speed along the path between the two locations.…”

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Subtropical Rain Attenuation Statistics on 12.6 GHz Ku-Band Satellite Link Using Synthetic Storm Technique

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In this work, measured subtropical rain attenuation was compared with rain attenuation generated theoretically by the Synthetic Storm Technique (SST). The rain attenuation data was obtained from a Ku-band satellite TV link collocated at the site of a rain rate measurement system in Durban, South Africa (2887S, 3098E). A mathematical model developed from the measurement campaign was used to generate measured data for four years of rainfall. Annual cumulative distribution functions of SST prediction results are compared with the results of the measurementbased model. The results show SST to be a fair approximation of actual measurements. This was established by error analysis carried out to compare the error margins in SST prediction and the error margins in the in-force ITU-R prediction method. While the SST approach was shown to conform slightly less accurately to measurements than the ITU-R model, it still yields highly acceptable results in the 0 to 11 dB margin in which the said link experiences most of the measured attenuation before total channel squelching occurs.

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“…The SST does not yield estimates of the actual rain attenuation, but it proves to give a good estimate of the attenuation statistics (Matricciani & Riva, 2005). It can also be used to acquire good statistical estimates of fade dynamics (Matricciani, 2004;Sánchez-Lago et al, 2007). Mahmudah et al (2008) and Suwadi et al (2009) use SST to examine the performance of cell-site diversity in a network of converging, short links.…”

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Measurement and Modeling of Rain Intensity and Attenuation for the Design and Evaluation of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Communication Systems

Hendrantoro¹,

Matsushima²

2010

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies Modern UWB Antennas and Equipment

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Validation of the Synthetic Storm Technique as Part of a Time-Series Generator for Satellite Links

Cited by 27 publications

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Performance of synthetic storm technique in estimating fade dynamics in equatorial Malaysia

Performance of synthetic storm technique in estimating fade dynamics in equatorial Malaysia

Subtropical Rain Attenuation Statistics on 12.6 GHz Ku-Band Satellite Link Using Synthetic Storm Technique

Measurement and Modeling of Rain Intensity and Attenuation for the Design and Evaluation of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Communication Systems

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