Title :
Distribution of burst error lengths in Rayleigh fading radio channels
Author :
Otani, K. ; Omori, Hideki
Author_Institution :
NTT Yokosuka Electrical Communication Laboratory, Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
A method for measuring burst errors which occur in v.h.f. or u.h.f. digital land mobile radio channels is described. Then it is noted that the cumulative distribution of burst error lengths in a Rayleigh fading channel is approximately governed by the log-normal distribution.
Keywords :
digital communication systems; error statistics; fading; mobile communication systems; Rayleigh fading radio channels; UHF; VHF; burst error lengths; digital land mobile radio channels; log normal distribution;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19800634
