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Inter- and Intrasite Correlations of Large-Scale Parameters from Macrocellular Measurements at 1800 MHz

  • Niklas Jaldén1Email author,
  • Per Zetterberg1,
  • Björn Ottersten1 and
  • Laura Garcia1
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking20072007:025757

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/25757

©  Niklas Jaldén et al. 2007

Received: 15 November 2006

Accepted: 31 July 2007

Published: 15 November 2007

Abstract

The inter- and intrasite correlation properties of shadow fading and power-weighted angle spread at both the mobile station and the base station are studied utilizing narrowband multisite MIMO measurements in the 1800 MHz band. The influence of the distance between two base stations on the correlation is studied in an urban environment. Measurements have been conducted for two different situations: widely separated as well as closely located base stations. Novel results regarding the correlation of the power-weighted angle spread between base station sites with different separations are presented. Furthermore, the measurements and analysis presented herein confirm the autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties of the shadow fading and the angle spread that have been observed in previous studies.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
ACCES Linnaeus Center, KTH Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology

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