Concise Derivation of Scattering Function from Channel Entropy Maximization

In order to provide a concise time-varying SISO channel model, the principle of maximum entropy is applied to scattering function derivation. The resulting model is driven by few parameters that are expressed as moments such as the channel average power or the Doppler spread. Physical interpretations of the model outputs are discussed. In particular, it is shown that common Doppler spectra such as the flat or the Jakes spectrum fit well into the maximum entropy framework. The Matlab code corresponding to the proposed model is available at http://perso.telecom-bretagne.eu/fxsocheleau/software.

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