Effects of multipath angular spread on the spatial cross-correlation of received voltage envelopes

Author

Durgin, Gregory D. ; Rappaport, Theodore S.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

996

Abstract

This paper presents a simple formula relating multipath angular spread to small-scale fading statistics. This formula is then applied to find an approximate spatial cross-correlation function for received voltage envelopes. The analytical approach is compared to 67 cross-correlation functions simulated with non-omnidirectional multipath. The equations in this paper provide insight for applying spatial diversity techniques to receivers operating in the presence of non-omnidirectional multipath

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; correlation methods; diversity reception; mobile radio; multipath channels; Rayleigh fading envelopes; mobile radio; multipath angular spread effects; non-omnidirectional multipath; received voltage envelopes; small-scale fading statistics; spatial cross-correlation; spatial diversity techniques; Analytical models; Azimuthal angle; Fading; Mobile computing; Rayleigh channels; Receivers; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Voltage; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999 IEEE 49th

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1999.780498

Filename

780498