Sounding, Sampling and Simulation.

Chapter 8 covers techniques for channel sounding, sampling and simulation. It includes a description of a practical narrowband sounder and then deals with: Signal sampling and sampled distributions; Estimating the mean signal strength and the confidence interval; Wideband sounding techniques are surveyed and the system requirements for a wideband sounder based on the swept time-delay cross correlation (STDCC) technique are discussed. The chapter then describes: A practical wideband sounder design; The data processing procedures to obtain parameters of interest. Radio channel simulation is discussed and hardware and software techniques for simulating narrowband and wideband channels are described. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]