Uncertainties in Short Commercial Microwave Links Fading Due to Rain

Hai Victor Habi, Hagit Messer

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Abstract

A Power-Law relation between attenuation and rain rate has proven to be a useful tool in wireless network design at microwave and mmWave frequencies. In the last decade this relation has also been used for estimating rain from signal level measurements in Commercial Microwave Links (CMLs). In this paper we empirically show that while the power-law relation provides good approximation for relating attenuation and rain-rate in terrestrial microwave links of length 1-20Km, for links shorter than 1km, widely used in 5G technologies, it shows significant errors. We then suggest a recurrent neural network (RNN) approach to relate attenuation with rain rate and we show that it overcomes the uncertainties in short links.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages9006-9010
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509066315
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 4 May 20208 May 2020

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2020-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period4/05/208/05/20

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords

  • 5G technologies
  • CMLs
  • Power-Law
  • RNN
  • rain estimation

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