A flexibly configurable spatial model for mobile radio channels

Author

Blanz, Josef Johannes ; Jung, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

Volume

46

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

371

Abstract

The application of multiple directive antennas, i.e., directional diversity, may lead to significant capacity benefits in cellular mobile radio systems. A flexibly configurable statistical channel model for mobile radio systems using directional diversity is presented. The parameters of this model, which is available as a FORTRAN77 program, can be easily adjusted to various propagation areas such as, for example, rural, urban, microcellular, and picocellular environments. Therefore, the model is well suited to perform simulations, evaluations, and comparisons of mobile radio systems. Simulation results concerning a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) mobile radio system which uses multiple directive base station (BS) antennas in combination with joint detection illustrate the application of the presented channel model

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; code division multiple access; directive antennas; diversity reception; land mobile radio; multipath channels; radiowave propagation; signal detection; statistical analysis; CDMA; FORTRAN77 program; base station antennas; cellular mobile radio systems; code-division multiple-access; directional diversity; flexibly configurable spatial model; joint detection; microcellular environment; mobile radio channels; multipath transmission; multiple directive antennas; picocellular environment; propagation areas; rural area; simulation results; statistical channel model; system capacity; urban area; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Directive antennas; Fading; Land mobile radio; Mobile antennas; Multiaccess communication; Power system modeling; Radio transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.662642

Filename

662642