Atmospheric Effects on Terrestrial Millimeter-Wave Communications

Abstract

A methodology is given for quantitatively estimating the performance of millimeter-wave systems (30-300 GHz) in the atmosphere and in the presence of rainfall. Information on the transmission properties of millimeter waves is combined with currently available meteorological data to derive the methodology. The available propagation and rainfall data for a given climatic region are used to derive curves giving attenuation due to rainfall versus path length for various frequencies. Emphasis is on high-reliability communications in which outages are 0.1 percent (530 min of outage per year) or less, but the methodology described applies to higher outage systems as well.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0780602

Entities

People

  • S. J. Dudzinsky Jr.

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • 5G Wireless Networks
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Attenuation
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Systems
  • Frequency
  • Gain
  • High Reliability
  • Losses
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Data
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Radio Equipment
  • Radio Links
  • Sea Level
  • Transmission Loss
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - Internet of Things