An Empirical Model for Time Diversity Statistics at Ka- and Q-band

Time diversity is a diversity scheme to mitigate rain attenuation in Earth-Satellite links operating above 10 GHz. Here we derive an empirical model to obtain time diversity statistics using two years of statistical data obtained at Ka and Q-bands. The model error performance is evaluated in a range 0.001% to 1% being the lowest percentages conditioned to the attenuation dynamic range of the beacon receivers.