• DocumentCode
    1944767
  • Title

    Estimating the Ricean K-factor for mobile communication applications

  • Author

    Azemi, Ghasem ; Senadji, Bouchra ; Boashash, Boualem

  • Author_Institution
    Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    1-4 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    311
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we propose two estimators for the Ricean K-factor, which has applications in mobile communication systems. The estimators are based on the first two moments of the envelope of the received signal. The effects of scattering distribution, additive noise and shadowing on the proposed estimators are analyzed. We show that the proposed estimators are robust to non-isotropic scattering and their performance is only mildly affected by shadowing.
  • Keywords
    AWGN; electromagnetic wave scattering; mobile communication; signal processing; Ricean K-factor; additive noise; mobile communication applications; nonisotropic scattering; scattering distribution; Additive noise; Australia; Mobile communication; Noise robustness; Power measurement; Probability distribution; Radio propagation; Rayleigh channels; Rayleigh scattering; Shadow mapping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing and Its Applications, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7946-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSPA.2003.1224876
  • Filename
    1224876