Experimental results on the level crossing rate and average fade duration for urban fixed wireless channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-179

  Feick, Rodolfo ^a,b   Valenzuela, Reinaldo A ^a,c   Ahumada, Luciano ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Average fade duration; Fixed wireless links; Level crossing rate; Ricean fading channels; Temporal fading

Indexed keywords

FADE DURATION; FIXED WIRELESS CHANNELS; LEVEL CROSSING RATES (LCR); TEMPORAL FADING;

DOPPLER EFFECT; GAIN CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRANSCEIVERS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 33947578247     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05074     Document Type: Article

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