A Systemic Approach to the Compensation of Rain Attenuation in Ka-Band Communication Satellites

Abstract EN

Rain attenuation at Ka-band is a severe phenomenon that drastically impairs satellite communications at these frequencies.

Several adaptive compensation techniques have been elaborated to counteract its effects and most often applied one at a time.

The present paper proposes the contemporary exploitation of different techniques in a combined approach.

Such an integrated approach is thoroughly analyzed in a simplified scenario and will be shown to achieve a very effective solution, making the Ka-band spectrum fully available for broadband satellite applications and network-centric systems.