Theoretical derivation of the stochastic behavior of a WCDMA signal measured with a spectrum analyzer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 603-614

  Olivier, Christof ^a   Martens, Luc ^b  

^a tComLabs   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Code division multiaccess (CDMA); Land mobile radio; Modeling; Spectral analysis; Stochastic processes; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LAND MOBILE RADIO; STANDARD DEVIATION; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIACCESS;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 33645302946     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.870330     Document Type: Article

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