Deterministic modeling and simulation of error sequences in digital mobile fading channels

In order to evaluate the performance of wireless communication protocols and design good error control schemes for bursty channels, it is important to develop accurate and simple generative models. In this paper, a novel generative deterministic model (GDM) is proposed for the simulation of bursty error sequences encountered in digital mobile fading channels. The proposed GDM is simply a properly parameterized and sampled deterministic process followed by a threshold detector and two parallel mappers. Simulation results show that this generative model enables us to match very closely any given error-free run distribution (EFRD), gap distribution (GD), and error cluster distribution (ECD) of the underlying descriptive model.