Ice crystals and raindrop canting angle effects applied to satellite interference prediction with respect to heavy rain climatic zones

For frequencies above 10GHz the performance of the operating satellite syst ems is mainly aggravated because of the potential existing severe rain atte nuation. As a result of the above fading mechanism, the dominant interferen ce sources encountered in this frequency band are the following: differenti al rain attenuation induced by an adjacent satellite system operating in th e same frequency, and cross talk between orthogonally polarized signals. Th e latter source concerns of course satellite systems employing the dual pol arization mode. In the present paper, an already existing method to predict interference statistics, due to above reasons, is properly modified to inc lude ice crystals and raindrop canting angle effects. The assumption that t he point rainfall rate statistics follows a gamma form, valid for heavy rai n climatic regions such as J, M, N, P, Q zones, is also adopted. The sensit ivity of various parameters affecting the interference performance, after i ntroducing the novel assumptions, is finally investigated.