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The Springer publishing house has published a book by associates of the Department of communications systems Arsim Kelmendi, Aleš Švigelj, Tomaž Javornik, and Andrej Hrovat entitled Site Diversity in Satellite Communications: Modelling Using Copula Functions. The book is part of the Springer Briefs series. The book describes multi-site diversity modelling of induced rain attenuation statistics for satellite communication systems using copula functions. It collects all the relevant state-of-the- art findings, provides the missing pieces, and rounds them up in a way that the reader is given a complete picture of the important modelling factors and how to address them. Data post-processing methodology for statistical analysis based on our Earth-satellite propagation experiments are described. Four new models based on Copula functions for predicting diversity at multiple sites are presented with detailed comparative tests and error performance. The results presented in this book are intended to help improve system design and further research into modelling the next generation satellite links at higher frequencies.