Providing a comprehensive overview of the modelling, analysis and simulation of mobile radio channels, this book gives a detailed understanding of fundamental issues and examines state-of-the-art techniques in mobile radio channel modelling. It analyses several mobile fading channels, including terrestrial and satellite flat-fading channels, various types of wideband channels and advanced MIMO channels, providing a fundamental understanding of the issues currently being investigated in the field.

Important classes of narrowband, wideband, and space-time wireless channels are explored in detail with descriptions of efficient simulation methods for mobile radio channels being central. Strong emphasis is placed on the detailed origin of the presented channel models and a high degree of mathematical unity is conveyed. Using the described channel models, the reader can evaluate the performance of wireless communication systems under propagation conditions which are typical for multipath channels in various environments.

Key Topics Covered:

1 Introduction

2 Random Variables, Stochastic Processes, and Deterministic Signals

3 Rayleigh and Rice Channels

4 Introduction to Sum-of-Sinusoids Channel Models

5 Parametrization of Sum-of-Sinusoids Channel Models

6 Frequency-Nonselective Channel Models

7 Frequency-Selective Channel Models

8 MIMO Channel Models

9 High-Speed Channel Simulators

10 Selected Topics in Mobile Radio Channel Modelling

Author:

Matthias Ptzold was born in Engelsbach, Germany, in 1958. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, in 1985 and 1989, respectively, and the habil. degree in communications engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany, in 1998.

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