CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
Annex 1
1���� Introduction
2���� Interference propagation mechanisms
3���� Clear-air interference prediction
������� 3.1���� General comments
������� 3.2���� Deriving a prediction
����������������� 3.2.1���� Outline of the procedure
Step 1: Input data
Step 2: Selecting average year or worst-month prediction
Step 3: Radiometeorological data
Large bodies of inland water
Large inland lake or wet-land areas
Effective Earth radius
Step 4: Path profile analysis
4���� Clear-air propagation models
������� 4.1���� Line-of-sight propagation (including short-term effects)
������� 4.2���� Diffraction
����������������� 4.2.1���� The Bullington part of the diffraction calculation
Case 1. Path is LoS
Case 2. Path is transhorizon
����������������� 4.2.2���� Spherical-Earth diffraction loss
Start of calculation to be performed twice, as described above:
����������������� 4.2.3���� Complete �delta-Bullington� diffraction loss model
����������������� 4.2.4���� The diffraction loss not exceeded for p% of the time
�� �����4.3���� Tropospheric scatter (Notes 1 and 2)
������� 4.4���� Ducting/layer reflection
������� 4.5���� Additional clutter losses
����������������� 4.5.1���� General
����������������� 4.5.2���� Clutter categories
����������������� 4.5.3���� The height-gain model
����������������� 4.5.4���� Method of application
������� 4.6���� The overall prediction
������� 4.7���� Calculation of transmission loss
5���� Hydrometeor-scatter interference prediction
������� 5.1���� Introduction
������� 5.2���� Input parameters
������� 5.3���� The step-by-step procedure
Step 1: Determination of meteorological parameters
Step 2: Conversion of geometrical parameters to plane-Earth representation
Step 3: Determination of link geometry
Step 4: Determination of geometry for antenna gains
Step 5: Determination of path lengths within the rain cell
Step 6: Attenuation outside the rain cell
Step 7: Numerical integration of the scatter transfer function
The extended trapezoidal rule
Step 8: Determination of other loss factors
Step 9: Determination of the cumulative distribution of transmission loss
Attachment 1 to Annex 1� Radio-meteorological data required for the clear-air� prediction procedure
1���� Introduction
2���� Maps of vertical variation of radio refractivity data and surface refractivity
Attachment 2 to Annex 1� Path profile analysis
1���� Introduction
2���� Construction of path profile
3���� Path length
4���� Path classification
5���� Derivation of parameters from the path profile
������� 5.1���� Trans-horizon paths and LoS paths
����������������� 5.1.1���� Interfering antenna horizon elevation angle, θt
����������������� 5.1.2���� Interfering antenna horizon distance, dlt
����������������� 5.1.3���� Interfered-with antenna horizon elevation angle, θr
����������������� 5.1.4���� Interfered-with antenna horizon distance, dlr
����������������� 5.1.5���� Angular distance θ (mrad)
����������������� 5.1.6���� �Smooth-Earth� model and effective antenna heights
Attachment 3 to Annex 1� An approximation to the inverse cumulative normal distribution function for x  0.5