Definition and drivation of level crossing rate and average fade duration in an interference-limited environment

Author

Cao, Zhongren ; Yao, Yu-Dong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1608

Abstract

Wireless signals are subject to multipath propagation, which results in Rayleigh fading characteristics and the fading signal fluctuates around its mean signal level. The level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) are often used to characterize the signal-fading statistics. This paper explores the LCR and AFD issue in an interference environment. New definitions of LCR and AFD are introduced and the corresponding expressions are derived for an interference-limited environment

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; microcellular radio; multipath channels; radiofrequency interference; radiowave propagation; statistical analysis; AFD; LCR; Rayleigh fading; average fade duration; interference limited environment; level crossing rate; microcell systems; mobile radio environment; multipath propagation; signal-fading statistics; wireless signals; Error analysis; Fading; Interference; Land mobile radio; Noise level; Probability density function; Rayleigh channels; Statistics; Systems engineering and theory; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956470

Filename

956470