Journal of South China University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2016, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 81-86.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2016.09.012

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3-D Spatial Domain-Based Forward Link Channel Parameter Estimation in Macro-Cell Mobile Communication

ZHOU Jie1,2 YAO Ying-li1 LUO Hong1 ZHU Wei-na1 HISAKAU Kikuchi2   

  1. 1.Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,Nanjing 210044,Jiangsu,China; 2.Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,Niigata University,Niigata 950-2181,Japan
  • Received:2015-12-11 Revised:2016-05-14 Online:2016-09-25 Published:2016-08-21
  • Contact: 周杰( 1964-) ,男,教授,博士生导师,主要从事移动通信理论、无线传感网和无线接入网研究. E-mail:zhoujie45@hotmail.com
  • About author:周杰( 1964-) ,男,教授,博士生导师,主要从事移动通信理论、无线传感网和无线接入网研究.
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 61372128, 61471153)

Abstract: In view of the uniform distribution of the mobile communication environment with 3D scattering clusters,a statistical channel model for 3D spatial domain is constructed in this paper.In the macro-cell communication environment covered by directional antennas,the constructed model is used to estimate the parameters of the spacetime channel in the multipath fading channel,and the probability density functions ( PDFs) of the angle of arrival ( AOA) and the time of arrival ( TOA) are derived for the forward channel link in the multipath fading channel.In addition,the Doppler shift ( DS) caused by the movement of mobile stations ( MSs) is also derived,and the influences of both the spatial channel parameters and the main lobe width of directional antennas on the constructed model are analyzed.When the scattering objects around MSs are assumed as the Gaussian and exponential density models,the constructed model is more suitable to describe special mobile communication environments.The numerical simulation results show that the channel parameters estimated by using the proposed model are consistent with the theoretical and actual communication environments,which makes up for the limitations of the existing statistical channel models of three-dimensional scattering clusters.

Key words: statistical channel model, angle of arrival, time of arrival, Doppler shift, multipath fading

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