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Table 1 Channel structures in different mobile communication systems

From: Variable-step-size based sparse adaptive filtering algorithm for channel estimation in broadband wireless communication systems

Generations of mobile communication systems

2G cellular (IS-95)

3G cellular (WCDMA)

4G/5G cellular (LTE-Advanced~)

Transmission bandwidth

1.23 MHz

10 MHz

20 ~ 100 MHz

Time delay spread (assume)

0.4 μs

0.4 μs

0.4 μs

Sampling channel length

1

8

16 ~ 80

Number of nonzero taps

1

4

6

Channel model

Dense

Approximate sparse

Sparse