A study on spatial-temporal dynamics properties of indoor wireless channels

Ruonan Zhang, Xiaofeng Lu, Zhimeng Zhong, Lin Cai

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Abstract

The short-range, wideband wireless networking in office or residential buildings has been an emerging technology to support high quality multimedia services. Understanding the spatial-temporal dynamic properties of indoor wireless channels is essential to design the adaptive transmission protocols for optimizing the system performance. In this paper, we extend the propagation graph in [1] to study the channel dynamics of two scenarios. First, human Body Shadowing Effect (BSE) is very common in the indoor environments and can dramatically decrease the received signal energy when the significant propagation paths are blocked. We build an analytical model to estimate the power attenuation by the BSE. Second, we consider the movement of the mobile terminal and calculate the Doppler frequency shift and spectrum spread using the propagation graph. The paper provides new analytical methodologies to study the channel dynamics. Compared to the traditional ray tracing, the proposed method has much lower computational complexity and thus can be used for fast on-line estimation of the channel variation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 6th International Conference, WASA 2011, Proceedings
Pages410-421
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event6th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2011 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 11 Aug 201113 Aug 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6843 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period11/08/1113/08/11

Keywords

  • Channel model
  • Doppler Spectrum
  • Indoor Wireless Channels
  • Propagation Graph
  • Shadowing Effect
  • UWB

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