Statistical modelling of power delay profiles and small-scale fading in industrial environments

In this paper, measurements of the power delay profile and small-scale fading statistics in industrial environments have been presented. The well-known Saleh-Valenzuela model is fitted to the averaged power delay profiles, and new statistical descriptions of the model´s parameters have been proposed. Small-scale amplitude fading was found to be Rayleigh distributed for all delay bins except the first one. For the first delay bin, Nakagami-m fading provided a better fit.