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| Author(s): |
Ugo Silva Dias
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2010-03-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Michel Daoud Yacoub;
Alvaro Augusto Machado de Medeiros;
José Antônio Martins;
Rui Fragassi Souza;
Paulo Cardieri
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| Advisor: | Michel Daoud Yacoub |
| Abstract | |
This thesis proposes, investigates and validates first and second order statistics of fading channels in wireless environments. The statistical characterization includes both theoretical models and practical investigations through field measurements. The investigated channel models, namely ?-µ and a-µ, have recently been proposed in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the propagated signal. Because these fading models have one more degree of freedom than the traditional distributions, a greater flexibility is achieved. More specifically, the contributions of this thesis are: the ?-µ phase-envelope joint distribution derivation and its phase model validation. Furthermore, the distribution a-µ is fully validated. Its cumulative distribution, cross-correlation, autocorrelation and power spectrum functions of the envelope, these latter obtained in closed-form expressions, and the level crossing rate, are investigated in practice by using a field measurement system, specifically built for this purpose. Comparisons between the a-µ channel model and the traditional distributions are performed and excellent fits between the theoretical and experimental data are found (AU) | |