Title
Equivalent Tapped Delay Line Channel Responses with Reduced Taps
Abstract
Typically, a multipath channel response can be characterized as a sum of Rayleigh-fading ''rays'', each defined by a time delay and a mean-square amplitude. Therefore, the channel response can be largely described by a power delay profile (PDP), which is the set of mean-square ray amplitudes and relative delays. Here, we address the following question: Given an actual (or ''true'') PDP, PDP(τ), which may have many rays, is there a 3-ray (i.e. 3- tap) equivalent response, derivable from PDP(τ), that can be used to accurately estimate the average bit error rate, <;BER>, vs. receiver input signal- to-noise ratio, SNR? The results reported here give an affirmative answer, e.g., for <;BER> values down to = 10-4, the required SNR using a 3-tap equivalent channel response is less than 1.1 dB larger than that required for the ''true'' channel. This agreement can be improved upon, suggesting further work on deriving and evaluating equivalent 3-tap channels. We discuss the benefits of such simplifications for hardware emulators as well as for simulation and analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692193
VTC Fall
Keywords
Field
DocType
power delay profile,time delay,relative delay,mean-square ray amplitude,hardware emulators,pdp,3-tap equivalent channel response,multipath channels,multipath channel response,equivalent tapped delay line channel response,rayleigh-fading,3-ray equivalent response,delay lines,receiver input signal- to-noise ratio,average bit error rate estimation,error statistics,rayleigh channels
Multipath channels,Computer science,Rayleigh channels,Delay spread,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Power delay profile,Amplitude,Bit error rate
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1090-3038
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shweta Sagari1567.08
Trappe, Wade23814236.68
Larry J. Greenstein352076.65