Indoor statistical channel modelling using Agilent 8960

Author

Eluma, Gabriel ; Arshad, Kamran

Author_Institution

Mobile & Wireless Commun. Res. Lab., Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

269

Abstract

Over-the-air channel power measurements using Agilent 8960 to model indoor propagation channel is presented in this paper. A transmission bandwidth and frequency of 3.84MHz and 896MHz respectively were selected for the measurements. All experiments were conducted in the mobile and wireless communications research laboratory at University of Greenwich. Channel power measurements along with the other measurement data were directly logged onto a PC/laptop using an Agilent data acquisition system and Matlab. A new indoor channel propagation model is proposed in this paper by analysing channel measurements from Agilent 8960. We considered Rayleigh, Rician, Nakagami and Weibull distribution as potential distribution of channel gain amplitudes and concluded Weibull distribution is the best fit for the measured data.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Weibull distribution; data acquisition; indoor radio; statistical analysis; telecommunication power management; Agilent 8960; Agilent data acquisition system; Nakagami channel; Over-the-air channel power measurement; Rayleigh channel; Rician channel; University of Greenwich; Weibull distribution; frequency 3.84 MHz to 896 MHz; indoor channel propagation model; indoor statistical channel modelling; mobile and wireless communications research laboratory; Fading; Frequency measurement; Mathematical model; Nakagami distribution; Power measurement; Rician channels; Wireless communication; Agilent 8960; OTA; Weibuill; channel power; fading;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTIT.2013.6749515

Filename

6749515