Large Scale Fading
Large Scale Fading and
Channel modeling
Using Matlab
March 2012
Large scale fading and channel modeling
Using Matlab
Introduction
The fading phenomenon can be broadly classified into two different types: large-scale fading and small-scale fading. Large-scale fading occurs as the mobile moves through a large distance, for example, a distance of the order of cell size . It is caused by path loss of signal as a function of distance and shadowing by large objects such as buildings, intervening terrains, and vegetation. Shadowing is a slow fading process characterized by variation of median path loss between the transmitter and receiver in fixed locations. In other words, large-scale fading is characterized by average path loss and shadowing. On the other hand, small-scale fading refers to rapid variation of signal levels due to the constructive and destructive interference of multiple signal paths (multi-paths) when the mobile station moves short distances. Depending on the relative extent of a multipath, frequency selectivity of a channel is characterized (e.g., by frequency-selective or frequency flat) for small-scaling fading. Meanwhile, depending on the time variation in a channel due to mobile speed (characterized by the Doppler spread), short-term fading can be classified as either fast fading or slow fading. Figure 1.1 classifies the types of fading channels.
| | | | Fading channel | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Large-scale fading | | | | | | Small-scale fading | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Path loss | | | Shadowing | | Multi-path fading | | Time variance | |
Channel modeling
Using Matlab
March 2012
Large scale fading and channel modeling
Using Matlab
Introduction
The fading phenomenon can be broadly classified into two different types: large-scale fading and small-scale fading. Large-scale fading occurs as the mobile moves through a large distance, for example, a distance of the order of cell size . It is caused by path loss of signal as a function of distance and shadowing by large objects such as buildings, intervening terrains, and vegetation. Shadowing is a slow fading process characterized by variation of median path loss between the transmitter and receiver in fixed locations. In other words, large-scale fading is characterized by average path loss and shadowing. On the other hand, small-scale fading refers to rapid variation of signal levels due to the constructive and destructive interference of multiple signal paths (multi-paths) when the mobile station moves short distances. Depending on the relative extent of a multipath, frequency selectivity of a channel is characterized (e.g., by frequency-selective or frequency flat) for small-scaling fading. Meanwhile, depending on the time variation in a channel due to mobile speed (characterized by the Doppler spread), short-term fading can be classified as either fast fading or slow fading. Figure 1.1 classifies the types of fading channels.
| | | | Fading channel | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Large-scale fading | | | | | | Small-scale fading | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Path loss | | | Shadowing | | Multi-path fading | | Time variance | |