LAUSR

Rainfall is considered as one of the most crucial atmospheric elements that cause attenuation in signal propagation, especially in high-frequency range for fifth-generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks. To unveil the complex relationships between rain attenuation and other factors including rainfall rate, we propose a new rain attenuation prediction model for terrestrial line-of-sight (LoS) propagation using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). In the proposed model the Recommendation ITU-R P.530 (called the ITU-R model) is used as the mean function in GPR, and to capture the deviation of measured rain attenuation from the ITU-R model we develop a latent function in GPR motivated from the ITU-R model. We validate with the ITU-R study group 3 databank (DBSG3) that the proposed model provides high prediction accuracy.