Development and validation of time-series synthesizers of rain attenuation for Ka-band and Q/V-band satellite communication systems

The aim of this paper is to present recent developments in terms of propagation time-series synthesizers, carried out in the framework of the ESA study 16865/03/NL/EC Development of propagation models for telecommunication satellite systems (ONERA Final Report RF 4/07757/DEMR, 2004). The paper is composed of three parts: a review of the initial requirements related to propagation time series for system performance simulation, a description of a collection of rain attenuation time-series synthesizers and of their related input parameters, and a comparative analysis of the output characteristics of these time-series synthesizers as compared with experimental data collected during the OLYMPUS and ITALSAT propagation experiments