FADING & DOPPLER EFFECT

SWAPNIL BANGERA

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OVERVIEW

• What is Fading?

• Effect of Fading in Wireless Communication

• Doppler Effect (Principle)

• Doppler Effect in Wireless Communication

• Channel Correlation Function and Power Spectra

• Conclusion

FADING

• In wireless communication system, a signal experiences multipath propagation which causes rapid signal level fluctuations in time, called fading.

• Fading effects that characterize radio communication are large scale fading and small scale fading.

• Fading is caused by interference between two or more versions of the transmitted signal which arrive at the receiver at slightly different times.

• These waves, called multipath waves, combine at the receiver antenna to give a resultant signal which can vary widely in amplitude and phase, depending on the distribution of the intensity and relative propagation time of the waves and the bandwidth of the transmitted signals.

DOPPLER EFFECT• The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift) is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for

an observer moving relative to its source.

• It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. Compared to the emitted frequency, the received frequency is higher during the approach, identical at the instant of passing by, and lower during the recession.

• When the source of the waves is moving toward the observer, each successive wave crest is emitted from a position closer to the observer than the previous wave. Therefore, each wave takes slightly less time to reach the observer than the previous wave. Hence, the time between the arrival of successive wave crests at the observer is reduced, causing an increase in the frequency. While they are travelling, the distance between successive wave fronts is reduced, so the waves "bunch together".

• Conversely, if the source of waves is moving away from the observer, each wave is emitted from a position farther from the observer than the previous wave, so the arrival time between successive waves is increased, reducing the frequency. The distance between successive wave fronts is then increased, so the waves "spread out".

DOPPLER EFFECT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION• The relative motion between the transmitter and the receiver causes Doppler shifts. Local scattering

typically comes from many angles around the mobile. This scenario causes a range of Doppler shifts, known as the Doppler spectrum. The maximum Doppler shift corresponds to the local scattering components whose direction exactly opposes the mobile trajectory.

• Due to Doppler spread, fading effects can also be classified as fast fading and slow fading.

• There is always a relative motion between the cell-site transmitter and the mobile receiver. As a result Doppler effect occurs in the shift of the received carrier frequency. Doppler spectrum is the spectrum of the fluctuations of the received signal strength.

• Doppler effect results in the inaccurate operation of the system. Proper compensation technique needs to be implemented to minimise this effect.

• Doppler frequency or Doppler shift is given by:

• The maximum Doppler frequency will be obtained when the mobile unit is moving in line with the direction of the received signal, that is, or . The maximum Doppler frequency is given by:

• When a pure sinusoidal carrier signal having frequency is transmitted, the received signal spectrum, called the Doppler spectrum, will have components in the range to , corresponding to whether the direction of motion of the mobile is away from or towards the direction of the received signal respectively.

• This simply means that Doppler shift will be positive or negative depending on whether the mobile receiver is moving toward or away from the base station transmitter.

CHANNEL CORRELATION FUNCTION AND POWER SPECTRA

• Consider which is known as the spaced-frequency, spaced time correlation function of the channel.

• Focussing on the time variations of the channel as measured by the parameter . The time variations in the channel are evidenced as a Doppler broadening and, perhaps, in addition as a Doppler shift of a spectral line.

• In order to relate the Doppler effects to the time variations of the channel, we define the Fourier transform of with respect to the variable to be the function

• With set to zero and , the relation becomes

• The function is a power spectrum that gives the signal intensity as a function of the Doppler frequency 𝛌. Hence, we call ) the Doppler power spectrum of the channel.

• From the equation, we observe that if the channel is time invariant, and ) becomes equal to the delta function . Therefore, when there are no time variations in the channel, there is no spectral broadening observed in the transmission of a pure frequency tone.

• The range of values of 𝛌 over which ) is essentially nonzero is called the Doppler spread of the channel. Since ) is related to by the Fourier transform, the reciprocal of is measure of the coherence of the channel. That is,

• Clearly, a slow changing channel has a large coherence time or, equivalently, a small Doppler spread.

• Now consider the autocorrelation function in time domain. Its Fourier transform is given as

• It follows that and are a Fourier transform pair. That is,

• Furthermore, and are related by the double Fourier transform

• This new function is called the scattering function of the channel. It provides us with a measure of the average power output of the channel as a function of the time delay and Doppler frequency.

CONCLUSION

The intent of this presentation was to discuss the concept of fading in the context of Doppler effect.

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