Autors: Kumar V., Singh H., Bonev, B. G., Petkov, P. J., Saxena K., Manolova, A. H.
Title: Advanced Machine Learning Approach for Accurate Rain Attenuation Prediction in High-Frequency Wireless Networks
Keywords: Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Bagging Regressor, Machine learning, Rain attenuation

Abstract: The reliability of high-frequency wireless communication systems faces substantial impediments from rainfall-caused electromagnetic signal losses especially in relation to modern networking technologies including 5G and next-generation systems. Permanent predictive models such as ITU, Brazilian and RAL perform with different accuracies according to geographical and climatic zones yet none achieves optimal performance throughout all conditions. This research develops a generalized prediction model through a machine learning approach to fulfill the need for an improved solution. The use of weighted sums methods integrating traditional model outputs at 0.1, 0.5 and 0.4 weight values helped generate a realistic prediction for attenuation that represented balanced estimation results. The machine learning models used Bagging Regressor and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to predict the unified target while processing physical and model-specific parameters.

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Issue

60th International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies, ICEST 2025 - Proceedings, 2025, Macedonia, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEST66328.2025.11098361

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