Wireless Communication

Chapter: Wireless Channels

The Basics of Mobile Propagation


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The Basics of Mobile Propagation

Mobile Propagation

Key Questions about Propagation

Key Terms of This Section

Free Space Loss

Free Space Loss

FREE SPACE LOSS, continued

Antenna Gain

Antenna Gain: derivation

Antenna Gain: Half-Wave Dipole

Law of Conservation of Energy

Groundwave loss:

Three Components

Space-wave approximation for UHF land-mobile communication

Space-wave approximation

Space-wave approximation

Space-wave approximation

Two-ray model

Two-Ray Model

Egli’s semi-empirical model

Generic path-loss models

Micro-cellular models

Indoor Models

Reflection

Diffraction loss

Statistical Fluctuations

Shadowing

Shadowing: s = 3 .. 12 dB

How do systems handle shadowing?

Multipath fading

Models for Multipath Fading

Rayleigh Multipath Reception

Effect of Flat Fading

Rayleigh Model

Received Amplitudes

Received Power

Fade Margin

Ricean Multipath Reception

Ricean Multipath Reception

Ricean Amplitude

Ricean K-factor

Exercise: Outage Probability

Solution

Solution, Part II: Diversity

Outage Probability Versus Fade Margin

How do systems handle fading?

Summary

Author: J.P. Linnartz

 



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