Characteristics of a digital mobile radio channel

Abstract

A field test has been made in order to better understand the digital mobile radio channel. At the mobile receiver (450 MHz, 1200 bits/s) recordings were made of the digital signal and the field strength. These recordings were later analyzed by a computer. Some existing models for digital channels have been tested. Theoretically motivated probability density functions for the fading envelope have also been considered. A new model for the digital channel is proposed. This model is a memoryless binary symmetric channel (BSC) with field strength dependent crossover error probability. This model fits very well to the recorded data.

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