Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Radio Channels

摘要

The aggregate demand for multimedia services, high mobility, and global connectivity has resulted in recent years in an explosion of new technologies for wireless communication systems. All components of a wireless communication system ranging from digital modulation schemes over channel coding techniques up to higher layer protocols are more or less influenced by the characteristics of the mobile radio channel. A thorough understanding of the mobile radio channel is therefore crucial for the development, performance optimization, and testing of present as well as next-generation mobile radio systems. This is one of the reasons why exploring the mobile radio channel has always been a key research topic from the very beginning of mobile communications to the present. Currently, the research on mobile radio channels involves a variety of challenging topics such as the modeling of car-to-car channels, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, cooperative channels, satellite channels, and ultrawideband channels, only to name a few. The objective of this special issue is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art research in the fascinating area of modeling and simulation of mobile radio channels. This special issue is composed of five papers.