A closed form to predict outage of digital radio

A simplified formula for predicting the outage probability of an unprotected high capacity line-of-sight digital radio link operating under frequency-selective fading conditions is presented. First, the propagation anomaly is modeled as a linear in-band amplitude dispersion in conjunction with a transmission minimum (notch) frequency located within or outside the signal band of interest. A simplified expression for the outage probability of the radio system under these conditions is then obtained. This expression is based on the fade occurrence factor in the climatic region of interest, the bandwidth of the transmitted signal, the carrier frequency of operation, the modulation scheme employed and the length of the link under consideration. The formula is applied to predict the outage probability of 4 phase shift keying (PSK), 8-PSK, and 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) high capacity radio links with specified parameters. The results obtained compare favorably with measured data.<
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