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Mobile Radio Propagation:

Fading and Multipath


Large scale propagation effects
Path loss (function of distance)
Shadowing (obstacle between Tx and Rx)
Small scale propagation effects
Multipath (short distance ~ signal
wavelength)
Simplified path loss model:
Log-normal shadowing: is
assumed random with log-normal distribution (based
on LLN applied to many attenuating objects) :

Combined Path Loss and Shadowing




) , ( ~ , log 10 log 10 ) (
2
0
10 10
o N
d
d
K dB
P
P
dB dB
t
r
+
|
|
.
|

\
|
=

=0 when average shadowing incorporated into K and , else

<0
Model Parameters from
Empirical Measurements
Fit model to data
Path loss (K,), d
0
known:
Best fit line through dB data
K obtained from measurements at d
0
.
Exponent is MMSE estimate based on data
Captures mean due to shadowing

Shadowing variance
Variance of data relative to path loss model
(straight line) with MMSE estimate for
P
r
(dB)
log(d)
10
K (dB)
log(d
0
)
o

2
Small-Scale Multipath Propagation
The three most important effects
Rapid changes in signal strength over a small travel distance or time
interval
Random frequency modulation due to varying Doppler shifts on
different multipath signals
Time dispersion caused by multipath propagation delays
Factors influencing small-scale fading
Multipath propagation: reflection objects and scatters
Speed of the mobile: Doppler shifts
Speed of surrounding objects
Transmission bandwidth of the signal
The received signal will be distorted if the transmission bandwidth is
greater than the bandwidth of the multipath channel.
Coherent bandwidth: bandwidth of the multipath channel.

Statistical Multipath Model
Random # of multipath components, each with
Random amplitude
Random phase
Random Doppler shift
Random delay
Random components change with time
Leads to time-varying channel impulse response
Time Varying Impulse Response
Response of channel at t to impulse at t-t:


t is time when impulse response is observed
t-t is time when impulse put into the channel
t is how long ago impulse was put into the
channel for the current observation
path delay for MP component currently observed
)) ( ( ) ( ) , (
1
) (
t e t t c
n
N
n
t j
n
n
t t o o t

=

Received Signal Characteristics


Received signal consists of many multipath
components
Amplitudes change slowly
Phases change rapidly
Constructive and destructive addition of signal
components
Amplitude fading of received signal (both
wideband and narrowband signals)
Narrowband Model
Assume delay spread max
m,n
|t
n
(t)-t
m
(t)|<<1/B

Then u(t)~u(t-t).
Received signal given by


No signal distortion (spreading in time)
Multipath affects complex scale factor in brackets.
Characterize scale factor by setting u(t)=e
j|
0
)
`

9 =

=

) (
0
) ( 2
) ( ) ( ) (
t N
n
t j
n
t f j
n c
e t e t u t r
| t
o
In-Phase and Quadrature
under CLT Approximation
In phase and quadrature signal components:



For N(t) large, r
I
(t) and r
Q
(t) jointly Gaussian by
CLT (sum of large # of random vars).

Received signal characterized by its mean,
autocorrelation, and cross correlation.
If
n
(t) uniform, the in-phase/quad components are
mean zero, indep., and stationary.
), 2 cos( ) ( ) (
) (
0
) (
t f e t t r
c
t N
n
t j
n I
n
t o
|

=
) 2 sin( ) ( ) (
) (
0
) (
t f e t t r
c
t N
n
t j
n Q
n
t o
|

=
Auto and Cross Correlation
(Section 3.2.1)
Assume |
n
~U[0,2t]
Recall that u
n
is the multipath arrival angle
Autocorrelation of inphase/quad signal is

Cross Correlation of inphase/quad signal is

Autocorrelation of received signal is
u t t t t
u
/ cos ], 2 [cos ) ( ) (
n D D r r
v f f PE A A
n n n Q I
= = =
) ( ] 2 [sin ) (
, ,
t t t t
u
Q I n n Q I
r r D r r
A f PE A = =
) 2 sin( ) ( ) 2 cos( ) ( ) (
,
t t t t t t t
c r r c r r
f A f A A
Q I I
=
Envelope and Power Distributions
Main Points

Path loss and shadowing parameters are obtained
from empirical measurements


Statistical multipath model leads to a time-varying
channel impulse response


Narrowband model has in-phase and quad. comps
that are zero-mean stationary Gaussian processes
Auto and cross correlation depends on AOAs of multipath

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