Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
Annex 1
1 Introduction
2 Propagation loss
2.1 Attenuation due to
atmospheric gases
2.2 Attenuation by
precipitation and clouds
2.2.1 Prediction
of attenuation statistics for an average year
2.2.2 Seasonal variations – worst month
2.2.3 Variability in space and time of
statistics
2.2.4 Site diversity
2.2.5 Characteristics of precipitation events
2.3 Clear-air effects
2.3.1 Decrease in antenna gain due to wave-front
incoherence
2.3.2 Beam spreading loss
2.4 Scintillation and
multipath fading
2.4.1 Calculation
of monthly and long-term statistics of amplitude scintillations
at elevation angles greater than 5°
2.4.2 Calculation
of the deep fading part of the scintillation/multipath fading distribution of
elevation angles less than 5°
2.4.3 Calculation
of the shallow fading part of the scintillation/multipath fading distribution
at elevation angles less than 5°
2.5 Estimation of
total attenuation due to multiple sources of simultaneously occurring
atmospheric attenuation
2.6 Attenuation by
sand and dust storms
3 Noise temperature
4 Cross-polarization effects
4.1 Calculation of
long-term statistics of hydrometeor-induced cross-polarization
4.2 Joint statistics
of XPD and attenuation
4.3 Long-term
frequency and polarization scaling of statistics of hydrometeor-induced cross‑polarization
4.4 Data relevant to
cross-polarization cancellation
5 Propagation delays
6 Bandwidth limitations
7 Angle of arrival
8 Calculation of long-term
statistics for non-GSO paths