An Empirical Model for Nonstationary Ricean Fading

Ricean fading is common in dense urban cellular networks and, as a mobile moves through that environment, the K-factor of the Ricean fading will change. This paper presents a statistical model for dense urban vehicular nonstationary Ricean fading, where the K-factor gradually changes due to movement through changing surroundings. This model is empirical and is based on K-factor fluctuations that are observed in dense urban cellular radio channel measurements. The K -factor is modeled using a random process with a distribution that is fit to the measured K-factor values. An autoregressive (AR) model is also used to ensure that the autocorrelation of the simulated K-factor process matches the empirical data. The nonstationary Ricean fading envelope that is generated using this model is verified by comparing it with the fading envelope that is observed in the measurements.

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