Characterization and Modeling of UHF Wireless Channel in Terrestrial SFN Environments: Urban Fading Profiles

This paper proposes several realistic fading channel models to describe the signal distortions that arise in single frequency network (SFN) environments. The proposed models characterize ultra-high frequency (UHF) wireless channels based on measurements from operating networks in metropolitan areas. In this paper, the unique features of SFN transmission are identified compared to the conventional, single antenna transmission channels. The impacts of urban propagation, tower configuration, and mobile and terrain effects are considered based on the tapped delay line structure. The proposed models can provide a useful reference to facilitate the SFN system design, network planning, verification, and receiver performance test. Free MATLAB source code of the fading simulator is available at https://github.com/ETRI-KMOU/FadingChannelSimulator.

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This paper proposes several fading channel models to describe signal distortions in SFN environments. The models are based on measurements from metropolitan networks and can be useful for SFN system design and network planning.