Higher Order Statistics in a mmWave Propagation Environment

(c) 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.[EN] A thorough measurement campaign in an indoor environment at the millimeter-wave band is carried out with an aim at characterizing the short-term fading channel in terms of its higher-order statistics. The measurements are conducted in a variety of scenarios, with frequencies ranging from 55 to 65 GHz, in line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight conditions, and combinations of horizontal and vertical polarizations at both the transmitter and the receiver. A number of fading models are tested, namely Rayleigh, Rice, Nakagami-m, alpha-mu, kappa-mu, eta-mu, and alpha-eta-kappa-mu. The main second-order statistics under analysis are the level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) both given per distance unit. From the experimental data, the parameters of these statistics are estimated, and the corresponding curves of the theoretical models are compared with the empirical ones and the best model is selected. Additionally, the study of the very general distribution, namely alpha-eta-kappa-mu, is advanced, in which new expressions for time-/distance-domain LCR and Al-ll are derived using an envelope-based approach. Such an approach leads to integral-form formulations with much less computational complexity and computes rapidly compared with the already existing ones presented elsewhere, also given in the integral form. Furthermore, a series of expansion expression for the alpha-eta-kappa-mu time-/distance-domain LCR is then derived that improves even further the computational time.This work was supported in part by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientico e Tecnologico (CNPq) under Grant 304248/2014-2 and Grant 308365/2017-8, in part by the Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), with resources from Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC), through the Radiocommunication Reference Center [Centro de Referencia em Radiocomunicacoes (CRR)] Project of the National Institute of Telecommunications [Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (INATEL)], Brazil, under Grant 01250.075413/2018-04, and in part by the Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad of the Spanish Government through the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) under Project TEC2017-86779-C2-2-R.Dos Anjos, AA.; Rufino-Marins, TR.; Nogueira Da Silva, CR.; Rodrigo Peñarrocha, VM.; Rubio Arjona, L.; Reig, J.; Amaral De Souza, RA.... (2019). Higher Order Statistics in a mmWave Propagation Environment. IEEE Access. 7:103876-103892. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930931S103876103892

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