Performance of Site Diversity Investigated Through RADAR Derived Results

Site diversity is an effective rain attenuation mitigation technique, especially in the tropical region with high rainfall rate. The impact of different factors such as site separation distance, frequency, elevation angle, polarization angle, baseline orientation and wind direction is assessed. Results are compared to those reported in existing literature and also compared to the commonly used ITU-R site diversity prediction models. The effect of the wind direction on site diversity is also presented. It can be observed that diversity gain is highly dependent on the site separation distance, elevation angle and wind direction but independent of the frequency, baseline angle and polarization angle of the signal. This study is useful for the implementation of site diversity as a rain attenuation mitigation technique.

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