A DETERMINISTIC FREQUENCY HOPPING RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNEL SIMULATOR DESIGNED BY USING OPTIM.pdf

A DETERMINISTIC FREQUENCY HOPPING RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNEL SIMULATOR DESIGNED BY USING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES Cheng-Xiang Wang1, Matthias Pa?tzold1, and Burin Itsarachai2 1Agder University College, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Mobile Communications Group, Grooseveien 36, N-4876 Grimstad, Norway, cheng.wang@hia.no; matthias.paetzold@hia.no 2MobilCom Multimedia GmbH, Central Radio Network Planning, Hollerstrasse 126, 24782 Buedelsdorf, Germany, burin.itsarachai@mobilcom.de Abstract - A channel simulator that models accurately the physical channel statistics determined by the fre- quency separation between two carriers in frequency hopping (FH) systems is called a FH channel simulator. In this paper, we propose a novel deterministic FH simulation model for Rayleigh fading channels, which can easily be implemented and is very useful for in- vestigating the frequency diversity gain of low speed mobiles in practical FH systems. The optimization technique based on the Lp-norm method is exploited to calculate some simulation model parameters. Moreover, the performance evaluation of the proposed channel simulator is performed for typical GSM FH mobile radio data transmission scenarios. A pretty good agreement between the statistical properties of the simulation model and those of the underlying analytical model is observed in all cases. Keywords - Deterministic channel modeling, Rayleigh fading channels, frequency hopping, optimization tech- niques, statistics. I. INTRODUCTION Frequency hopping (FH) is one of the many techniques that are being considered to improve the system per- formance and spectral efficiency of modern wireless communication networks by providing frequency diver- sity and interference diversity. The use of FH in GSM is the most popular FH application in cellular systems [1]–[5]. Many contributions have also applied FH to spread spectrum multiple access (SSMA) communica- tion systems [6]–[8] and Bluetooth wireless networks [9]. It is typically assu