A new simple model for land mobile satellite channels: First- and second-order statistics

Ali Abdi*, Wing C. Lau, Mohamed Slim Alouini, Mostafa Kaveh

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new shadowed Rice model for land mobile satellite channels. In this model, the amplitude of the line-of-sight is characterized by the Nakagami distribution. The major advantage of the model is that it leads to closed-form and mathematically-tractable expressions for the fundamental channel statistics such as the envelope probability density function, moment generating function of the instantaneous power, and the level crossing rate. The model is very convenient for analytical and numerical performance prediction of complicated narrowband and wideband land mobile satellite systems, with different types of uncoded/coded modulations, with or without di versity. Comparison of the first- and the second-order statistics of the proposed model with different sets of published channel data demonstrates the flexibility of the new model in characterizing a variety of channel conditions and propagation mechanisms over satellite links. Interestingly, the proposed model provides a similar fit to the experimental data as the well-accepted Loo's model but with significantly less computational burden.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)519-528
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume2
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2003
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Average fade duration
  • Channel modeling
  • Diver-sity
  • Interference
  • Land mobile satellite systems
  • Level crossing rate
  • Loo's model
  • Nakagami model
  • Performance evaluation
  • Rice model
  • Satellite channels
  • Shadowed rice model

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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