UNIFIED CHANNEL MODEL FOR MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS WITH SMART ANTENNAS

The definition of flat fading and frequency-selective fading channels is extended to low-rank and high-rank channels to include the angular domain. By physical reasoning a generic channel model is Introduced in corporating directions of arrival and a set of parameters is given for its configuration. The time evolution af the scattering processes and directions of arrival is taken into account, Analytical expressions a re derived for space-correlation coefficients and frequency-correlatio n coefficients, Spatial correlation decreases with increasing angular spread and decreasing angle of incidence, measured from array broadsid e.