Cell-site diversity may prove an efficient fade mitigation technique to increase the availability of local multipoint distribution service systems, in this Letter, a recently suggested physical model for the prediction of cell-site diversity performance is properly modified to include stratified rain. The model-obtained is satisfactorily verified using radar derived data from UK and Canada. Simulated BEP results concerning LMDS diversity systems are also presented.
Published in:
Communications Letters, IEEE
(Volume:9
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication: Feb. 2005