Shadow fading correlation between uplink and downlink

Author

Perahia, Eldad ; Cox, Donald C.

Author_Institution

rnDiversity, Inc, San Jose, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

308

Abstract

Selection diversity among base stations can be employed to combat shadow fading in mobile telephony. Selection of the strongest uplink received signal from a mobile at several base stations is straightforward. However, determining the base station from which to transmit to the mobile for downlink diversity often relies on the assumption that shadow fading on the uplink is highly correlated with the shadow fading on the downlink. Signal level data were collected from a GSM system in rural and suburban propagation environments at 1900 MHz. After averaging out the small scale multipath fading, the correlation between uplink and downlink shadow fading ranged between 0.66 and 0.92. The experiment, environment and results are described

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; cellular radio; diversity reception; fading channels; multipath channels; 1900 MHz; GSM system; base station selection diversity; cellular systems; downlink; downlink diversity; mobile telephony; rural propagation environments; shadow fading correlation; small scale multipath fading; suburban propagation environments; uplink; uplink received signal; Azimuth; Cities and towns; Downlink; Fading; GSM; Hospitals; Poles and towers; Sea level; System performance; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.944854

Filename

944854