Improving chaos equations fading models for Ka band satellite links

Abstract

The paper relates to some developments in modeling attenuation time series, measured on Ka band satellite links during rain events, by means of sample generators using chaotic dynamical systems. Weighted sums of Lorenz strange attractors are first used to model target sequences by themselves ("global approach"), improving procedures already introduced. Then, similar generators are used to model only low-pass versions of the same sequences, while hidden Markov models (HMM) or shaped random number series are used to mimic the complementary high-pass sequences.