Mobile Fading Channel Modeling--Fundamentals

1. two major categories of mobile fading channels

        Analog channels

        Rayleigh, Rice, Nakagami, SIMO, MIMO, etc

        Digital channels

        DPBGM(*)

        generative model: generates a model similar to the target error sequences. 

        [1] C.-X Wang and M. Pä tzold, “A generative deterministic model for digital mobile fading channels,” IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 8, no. 4 , pp. Apr. 2004.

        [2] C.-X Wang and W. Xu, “A new class of generative models for burst error characterization in digital wireless channels,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 55, no. 3, pp. Mar. 2007.

        [3] Y. He, O. Salih, C.-X. Wang, and D. Y uan ,“Deterministic process based generative models for characterizing packet-level bursty error sequences,” Wireless Commun. Mob. Com., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. Mar. 2015.

        [4] O. Salih, C.-X. Wang, B. Ai, and R. Mesleh, “Adaptive general models for digital wireless channels,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 13, no. 9, pp. Sept. 2014.

2. three Propagation Mechanisms(三种传播机制)

        Reflection

        Scattering

        Diffraction(衍射)

3. Large-Scale Fading and Small-Scale Fading

        large-scale fading(slow)

                path loss

                shadowing

        small-scale fading(fast)

（大尺度衰落--小尺度衰落--噪声）

4. Analog mobile fading channel models

 reference model: a theoretical mathematical model which is non-realizable in software/hardware.

Simulation model: stochastic or deterministic, realizable in software/hardware. 

（信道测量--参数估计--信道特征分析--信道建模）

5. Statistical Properties

mean(均值)        probability density function(PDF)       

cumulative distribution function(CDF分布函数)

time autocorrelation function(ACF自相关函数)            

time/frequency/spatial cross-correlation function(CCF互相关函数)

Doppler/Delay/Angular power spectral density(PSD功率谱密度)

envelope level crossing rate(LCR包络线水平交叉率)

average fade duration(AFD平均衰落持续时间)

6. Channel Classifications

        Narrowband(frequency non-selective)

        Wideband(frequency-selective)

        Slow fading channels

        Fast fading channels