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A Deterministic Frequency Hopping Rayleigh Fading Channel Simulator Designed by Using Optimization Techniques A DETERMINISTIC FREQUENCY HOPPING RAnEIGH FADING CHANNEL SIMULATOR DESIGNED BY USING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES Cheng-Xiang Wang', Matthias Patzold', and Burin Itsarachai* Agder University College, Faciilty of Engineering and Science, Mobile Communications Groiip, Gromeveien 36, N-4876 Grimstad, Norway, cheng.wangQhia.no; matthias.paetmldQhia.no 'b1obilCom Milltimedia GmbH, Central Radio Network Planning, Hollerstrasse 126, 24782 Biiedelsdorf, Germany, biirin.itsaraxbaiQmobilcom.de Abstract - A channel simiilator that models acciirately diversity gain in real celliilar systems employing FH. the physical channel statistics determined by the fre- quency separation between two carriers in frequency For the design and implementation of a FH wireless hopping (FH) system is called a FH channel simulator. commiinication system, it is essential to have a channel In this paper, we propose a novel deterministic FH simulator which can be realizable in laboratory to simulation model for Flayleigh fading channels, which duplicate the assiimed statistical properties, thiis, make can easily be implemented and is very iisefiil for in- it possible for the performance analysis, optimization vestigating the frequency diversity gain of low speed and test. The resiilting channel simiilator that models mobiles in practical FH systems. The optimization accirrately the physical channel statisth determined by technique based on the L,-norm method is exploited to the frequency separation between two carriers in FH calculate some simulation model parameters. Moreover, systems is called a FH channel simulator. Only several the performance evaliiation of the proposed channel papers have contributed to this topic. A freqiiency simiilator is performed for typical GSM FH mobile radio domain channel model with FH capabilities has been data transmission scenarios. A pretty good agreement developed by iisiiig frequency transform techniques in between the statistical properties of the simiilation [12]. A inethod of modeling frequency correlation of fast model and those of the nnderlying analytical model is fading which can be used to erniilate FH in a wide-band observed in all cases. channel has been described in [13]. A stochastic FH simnlation model for Rayleigh fading channels has been Keywords - Deterministic channel modeling, Rayleigh presented in oiir previous paper (141. This model enables fading channels, frequency hopping, optimization tech- the statistical fitting to a physical channel model with niqnes, statistics. high precision, hilt its complexity is high diie to the stochastic property and the used double sinn of sinusoids. I. INTRODUCTION Frequency hopping (FH) is one of the many techniques In this paper, we propose a novel FH Rayleigh fad- that are being considered to improve the system per- ing channel sirnillator based on Rice's sum of sinimids formance and spectral efficiency of modern wireless [15, 161. Due to its deterministic featiire and the used cornnniiiication networks by providing frequency diver- single sum of sinnsoids, this model cm easily be irnple sity and interference diversity. The use of FH in GSM mented with low complexity. The adjnstments of model is the most popiilar FH application in celliilar systems parameters are performed iiiimericdy by wing an opti- [1]-[5]. Many contribiitions have also applied FH to mization technique based on the Lo-norm method. spread spectrum mnltiple access (SSMA) commimica- tion systems [6]-[8] and Bluetooth wireless networks [9]. 11. FH ANALYTICAL MODEL It is typicdy assumed in FH systems that the sepa- In this section, we discuss the theoretical analytical ration of hopping freqiiency bands is larger than the model and its correlation properties, which is very coherence bandwidth and, hence, the received signals important for the performance evaluation of onr de- are uncorrelated [3,4, 101. However, such an assnmption terministic sinnilation model presented in Section V. is not generally true since channel correlation within The equivalent complex baseband notation will be wed coherence bandwidth iisiially occiirs in practical FH throiighoirt the paper. systems 17, 111. Therefore, it is of great significance to investigate the correlation properties of the received sig- Under narrow-band conditions, the widely accepted nals at different carrier frequencies, which might be very model is the Rayleigh fading channel model, where it helpful to set lip the frequency hop size guaranteeing is assiimed that no line-of-sight path exists between the quasi iincorrelated fading and therefore higher frequency base station and mobile station antennas. We start by 0-7803-7589-0/02/$17.0002002 IEEE 478 PIMRC 2002 writing the envelope of the received signals at two dif- where i = 1,2. In (4a) and (4c), frnaz is the max- ferent carrier freqiiencies, denoted by fc and f:, which mum Doppler freqiiency, and .IO(.)denotes the zeroth- can be regarded as two frequencies in the freqiiency list order Bessel fiinction of the first kind. Note that the determined by the FH pattern, in terms of narrow-band variance of pl(t) can easily be obtained by evahiatr inphase and qiiadratiire components: ing (4a) at T = 0, i.e., rpir,(0)= 00’. The iincor- relatedness between the inphase and qiiadratiire com- C(t) = I~i(f)+.ipdt)l , at fc , (la) ponents is shown in (4b). Close observation of (4c) C’(t) = IP;(~)+.i&)l , at f: , Ob) and (44 indicates that rpip;(7, x) is an even fiinction, while T~~,,;(7, x) is an odd fiinction with respect, to the where both pf(l)and p;(t) (i = lj2) are real Gaussian freqiiency separation x, i.e., rp+;(T, X) = T~~~;(T, -,v) noise processes, each with zero mean and variance mi. and Tp& (7,x) -rPLp; (7,-x). When x = 0, which As a prereqiiisite of Rayleigh process, pl(t)(pi(t)) and implies the non-hopping case, the expressions (Sc) and pz(t) (pa(t)) are statistically independent, and thus, (4d) will rediice to (4a) arid (4b), respectively. Hence, they are iincoxelatd stochastic processes. rp+:(~,0)= rpip;(~)and T,,,~;(T,~)= rplP2(~).Eqlia- tioir (4c) &o states that tbe correlation between the in- If two signals are transmitted from the base station at phase components of two received signals having different different carrier frequencies, then, their statistical prop freqiiencim decreases with the increasing absolute vahic erties, observed at the mobile antenna, are iincorre- of freqiiency separation x, as one would expect. This lated if the absolute valne of the frequency separation statement also hoIds far (4d) when x is sufficiently large. x = f: - f, is sufficiently large. To answer the qiicstion When we analyze these two equations on the condition of of how large is enough for the frequency separation be- FH, i.e., x # 0, it is clear that the strongest correlation tween two carriers, which can he employed to set up the of two signals occurs if there is no time delay (T = 0). In frequency hop size in real FH systems, we have to study order to ensiue that we can find the proper value of frc in detail the following autocorrelation fiinctions (ACFs) qiiency separation which is somehow large compared to and craqscorrelation fririctions (CCFs): the coherence bandwidth of the channel, we inilst inves- tigate (4c) arid (4d) at T = 0. Note that the expressions (4a)-(4d) will form the basis for the statistical analysis to follow in succeeding sections of this paper and the r+;i.>(~):= Eb*(t)pj(t+T)I I (24 preceding analysis is of great importance for the opti- rpip;(r,x) := Eh(t)ll:(t+ TI} , (2b) mization procedure in Section N. for all = 1,2 and j = 1,2, where the operator E{.} i 111. DETERMINISTIC FH SIMULATION refers to a statistical averwe. All of these ‘correlation MODEL fiinctions can be derived provided that the horizontal directivity pattern of &hereceiving antenna and the dis In this section, we will propose a novel deterministic tribirtions of the angles of arrival and the echo delays are FH Rayleigh fading channel simulator that can faithfiilly known [17]. Without much loss of generality, we mume simiilate all those correlation properties of the iinderly- that the ornnidirectional antenna is deployed, the angles ing analytical model in order to sludy FH system in the of arrival are iiniformly distributed, and the echo delays laboratory. By applying the principle of deterministic 7’ are negative exponentially distributed according to the channel modeling (19, 201, we can model the real Gaiis- following expresion: sian noise processes p$(t)and pi(t) (i = 1,2) by a finite 1 /I slim of properly weighted siniisoids: ~(7’)= -e-; (3) 01 where a represents the delay spread. The vahie of a is 0.1086 p under the rural area (RA) environment [18], which implies a freqiiency-nonselectivecliaiiiiel for GSM. If.then follows from these assiimptions that the expres- sions (24 arid (2b) can be solved analyticdly [IS]: 2 Tp.pi(T)’Tp;p;(T) = Or3&(2rfmaz7) 1 (44 (4b) ,,=I where N represents the niimber of siniwids, mainly de- 479 termining the realization expenditure and the perfor- mance of the resulting channel simulator. The other three model parameters, i.e., the Doppler coefficients c,,the discrete Doppler frequencies fn, and the pha-s 0, (Oh), will dominate how well the statistical proper- N = - ties of onr simulation model can approximate those of 5sin(lnf,.r + 27rpn~), (9d) the analytical model. It is worth mentioning that all ,=l these parameters will be determined during the simula- These equations show 11s again that the good agreement tion setup phase and kept constant during the simulation between (9a)-(9d) and (5a)-(5d) strongly relies on the run. Thus, the resulting simulator is of the determinis simulation model parameters. Since c, has been deter- tic property. In order to get the optimal approxima- mined by (6), we will proceed further to find appropriate tion of the probability density function (PDF) of the de- vahies for jnand 9,.
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