Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan

Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku band...

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Main Authors: Elfatih, Elsheikh, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Chebil, Jalel, Bashir, Saad Osman, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
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Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling iium-352872014-02-11T06:21:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/35287/ Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan Elfatih, Elsheikh Islam, Md. Rafiqul Chebil, Jalel Bashir, Saad Osman Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku band and higher frequencies with direct impact on telecommunications system performance. Only a limited amount of research has been carried out and the available data was very scarce. Few prediction models have been developed to estimate microwave signal attenuation during the dust storm based on scattering theory and approximation of dust properties. However, real dust storm is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to be described by theoretical physical or mathematical models [5-6]. In this paper, an evaluation of the existing attenuation prediction models has been done based on the measured dust storm properties and measured attenuation in Sudan. 2013-07-02 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/35287/1/Binder1.pdf Elfatih, Elsheikh and Islam, Md. Rafiqul and Chebil, Jalel and Bashir, Saad Osman and Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil (2013) Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan. In: 5th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM'13), 2nd– 4th July 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.iium.edu.my/icom2013/13/
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topic TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
spellingShingle TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
Elfatih, Elsheikh
Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Chebil, Jalel
Bashir, Saad Osman
Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
description Dust storms are meteorological phenomena which occur for a percentage of time in arid and semi arid areas especially at African Sahara and Middle East. Measurements at existing microwave links have showed dust storms can potentially result in serious attenuation in signal level especially at Ku band and higher frequencies with direct impact on telecommunications system performance. Only a limited amount of research has been carried out and the available data was very scarce. Few prediction models have been developed to estimate microwave signal attenuation during the dust storm based on scattering theory and approximation of dust properties. However, real dust storm is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to be described by theoretical physical or mathematical models [5-6]. In this paper, an evaluation of the existing attenuation prediction models has been done based on the measured dust storm properties and measured attenuation in Sudan.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Elfatih, Elsheikh
Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Chebil, Jalel
Bashir, Saad Osman
Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
author_facet Elfatih, Elsheikh
Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Chebil, Jalel
Bashir, Saad Osman
Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil
author_sort Elfatih, Elsheikh
title Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_short Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_full Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_fullStr Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in Sudan
title_sort preliminary analysis of dust effects on microwave propagation measured in sudan
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/35287/
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