Level-crossing rates and average fade duration for wireless channels with spatially complicated multipath

Author

Durgin, Gregory D. ; Rappaport, Theodore S.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

427

Abstract

This paper derives equations that describe level-crossing rates and average fade durations for mobile receivers operating in spatially complicated multipath channels. The results are useful for describing fading statistics for wireless systems that operate in realistic propagation channels or employ smart antennas, adaptive arrays, or other technologies that lead to a non-omnidirectional distribution of multipath power in space

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; adaptive antenna arrays; land mobile radio; multipath channels; radio receivers; radiowave propagation; statistical analysis; time-varying channels; adaptive arrays; average fade duration; directional Rayleigh fading channel model; equations; fading statistics; level-crossing rates; mobile receivers; multipath power; nonomnidirectional distribution; nonomnidirectional propagation; propagation channels; smart antennas; spatially complicated multipath; time-varying channel models; wireless channels; wireless systems; Adaptive arrays; Equations; Fading; Frequency; Narrowband; Rayleigh channels; Space technology; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Threshold voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1999. GLOBECOM '99

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeireo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5796-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1999.831675

Filename

831675