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Annex  Statistical methodology to assess time-varying interference produced by a geostationary fixed-satellite service network of earth stations operating with MF-TDMA schemes to geostationary fixed-satellite service networks
 1     Introduction
 2     Long- and short-term components of interference
 3     Long-term interference criterion
 4     Criteria to satisfy short-term performance objectives
        4.1     Expressing the C/N ratios
        4.2     Expressing the short-term performance objective criterion
 5     List of parameters and notation
 6     Statistical model for the analysis of interference
 7     Determining the long-term interference
 8     Expressing the short-term performance objective criterion
        8.1     Degradation of the C/N ratio due to rain fading in the presence of long-term interference
        8.2     Degradation of the C/N ratio due to rain fading in the presence of total interference
 9     Increase in link degradation due to the short-term interference
10     Increase in average interference due to antenna pointing errors
11     Simulation examples
12     Conclusions
 1     Input to the estimation process