Field measurements of the level crossing rate in the Nakagami mobile channel environment

Author

Ribeiro, Antonio M O ; Conforti, Evandro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microwave & Opt., Campinas State Univ., Brazil

fYear

2005

fDate

25-28 July 2005

Firstpage

517

Lastpage

520

Abstract

Field trials at 836 MHz in a suburban area were carried out, using a spectrum analyzer as the acquisition apparatus. The empirical probability density function (PDF) and level crossing rate (LCR) statistics calculated from the recorded envelopes were then compared to the corresponding closed-form expressions for the Nakagami fading. Good fit between empirical and theoretical curves were found for most data set. Also, there seem to be an independence of the goodness of fit for second-order statistics (LCR) when compared to the accuracy of fit for first-order statistics (PDF).

Keywords

Nakagami channels; UHF radio propagation; mobile radio; probability; spectral analysers; statistical analysis; 837 MHz; Nakagami mobile channel environment; acquisition apparatus; closed-form expressions; empirical probability density function; field measurements; level crossing rate; second-order statistics; spectrum analyzer; Algorithm design and analysis; Fading; Mobile computing; Nakagami distribution; Optical computing; Optical receivers; Probability density function; Rayleigh channels; Spectral analysis; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics, 2005 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9341-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2005.1580114

Filename

1580114