DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MICROWAVE PLANNING TOOL WITH STUDYING THE EFFECT OF VARIOUS ASPECTS

Microwave Line-of-sight radio is one of most important and common transmission methods in telecommunications networks. As the microwave radio signals are propagated through the lower atmosphere, they are sensitive to terrain, atmospheric, and climatic conditions. The planning and design of a reliable microwave links is very difficult and require a lot of complex computations. Therefore, not only software implementation is required, but studding the effect of all the different design aspects is very crucial for the telecommunication systems. The software then estimates the path profile, link budget, fade margin, and all other parameters at any place.
This paper presents the microwave software planning tool design and implementation with study of all of the design parameters. This software is an engineering tool to aid in the design and planning of the microwave transmission links considering the geography, distance, antenna height, transmit power, frequency, temperature, atmospheric effect, pressure, losses, and other factors which affects on the microwave line-of-sight radio link