Overview of available channel models for time series generation

Abstract

This document gives an overview of today’s available channel models for rain fading. These channel models are time-series generators which provide a time-series which simulates rain fading where the term rain fading is used for fading caused by meteorological effects: Clouds, snow, hail, fog and rain is the main contributor to this type of fading. The first time-series generators have been presented only a few years ago and, therefore, constitute a new field in satellite communications especially at high frequencies. Time-series generators can be used in computer simulations to simulate the channel conditions in scenarios where adaptive fade countermeasures are employed. Thus, the time-series generators are essential to test and optimise fade countermeasures by computer simulations.