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This chapter presents a novel theoretical framework for relating the small-scale fading characteristics of a wireless channel to multipath angle-of-arrival. A method is presented for reducing a multipath channel with arbitrary spatial complexity to three shape factors that have simple, intuitive geometrical interpretations. Furthermore, these shape factors are shown to describe the statistics of received signal fluctuations in a fading multipath channel. Examples demonstrate how the shape factors may be applied to real-life problems in channel measurement, level-crossing rate and average fade duration calculations, and coherence distance estimation.
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Durgin, G.D., Rappaport, T.S. (2002). Spatial Channel Modeling for Wireless Communications. In: Morinaga, N., Kohno, R., Sampei, S. (eds) Wireless Communication Technologies: New Multimedia Systems. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 564. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47326-7_1
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