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How to determine Transmission Rate for Task Offloading in edge computing?

I am new to communication systems and am working on a model for task offloading on edge computing. One key parameter I'm aiming to determine is the data transmission rate. While I am familiar with ...
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How to calculate capacity using Shannon and path-loss?

I am working on tasks offloading on edge computing. I need to find the transmission delay, through calculating Shannon capacity-theoretical maximum data rate- when sending results from the server back ...
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How to understand Fading Channel with no CSI at the Receiver

From the book Fundamentals of Massive MIMO, the section 2.3.4 shows that the expression of the received signal in fading channel with additive non-Gaussian noise and no CSI at receiver is dervied as: $...
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fractionally spaced channel equalizer code [closed]

I want to write a program in matlab for an adaptive fractionally spaced equalizer with lms algorithm.consider each packet with 150 bits that 25 first bits are pilot and used to train weights of the ...
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Rayleigh flat fading channel and pulse shaping

I'm trying to implement the Rayleigh flat fading channel in MATLAB using SRRC (Square-root raised cosine) pulse shape. The modulation scheme is BPSK. Here is my code: ...
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How do random processes add in Rayleigh fading to get a Guassian random process?

I was studying Rayleigh channels from Wireless Communications, Second Edition by Andreas F. Molisch. The book states that by adding different in-phase and quadrature components multipath components ...
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Tapped Delay Line(TDL) model in 5GNR

In 38.901, there are five channel profiles for TDL models. Can someone explain the difference among TDL-A , TDL-B and TDL-C for NLOS and which scenario to use them? Can someone explain the ...
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which type of diversity is used by rake receivers?

My question is: Which type of diversity technique is used by the rake receivers? In Bahai, et. al. "Multi-Carrier Digital Communications Theory and Applications of OFDM," Second Edition, ...
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Which are the realictic enviroment will be suitable for TDLC300 channel model?

TR 38.901 Section 7.7.2 mentioned that the TDL-A, TDL-B, and TDL-C channel models are constructed for NLOS scenarios. In TS 38.101-4 Annex B.2.1, in Table B.2.1.1-1 (picture is attached), delay ...
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How to code Rician fading channel gains from k-factor?

I know that MATLAB provides some built-in functions but I am not interested in those. I want to know how can we code to obtain the Rician fading channel gains from normal or Gaussian distributions. ...
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Elevation angle or Azimuth angle?

Suppose my ULA(Uniform Linear Array) is along x-axis only, then definitely we can estimate elevation angle with this ULA. But if we lift this array from x-axis and place it along y-axis, then which ...
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What is physical significance of Bit Error Rate (BER) and Outage Probability?

I am trying to understand the physical significance of Bit Error Rate (BER) and Outage Probability especially in low power wireless communication such as internet of things (IoT). Any help in this ...
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$\min(\{Z_i\})$ for non-i.i.d. random variables $Z_i$ the same as for i.i.d.?

My question is with reference to wireless communication. There are $N$ independent and identically distributed random channels i.e., $Z_i \in \{ Z_1, Z_2,\ldots, Z_N\}$ with PDFs $f_{Z_i}(z)$ ordered ...
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Order statistics: always applicable tool in wireless communication?

I have seen few papers where generalized order statistics is used to obtain statistics of the instantaneous SNR. "Performance analysis of monostatic multi-tag backscatter systems with general ...
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Understanding Pathloss and latency

In my class on wireless communication, I came across the following sentence: The round trip path-loss can be defined to include aspects such as attenuation and/or latency etc Hence I am looking for ...
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Related to wireless channel variance?

I am reading wireless research papers and found that mostly the wireless channel is considered to be Zero mean circularly symmetric Complex Gaussian (ZMCSCG) with variance 1 or 2 or 5 or 10 etc. My ...
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Understanding mathematical representation of SINR

I am getting confused in SINR for the following received signal expression. $$y(n) = (h+fg)s(n) + w(n) \tag{1}$$ Where $h,f,g$ are zero mean circularly symmetric Complex Gaussian (ZMCSCG) channels. ...
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Why the transpose of wireless channel vector is taken in SIMO system?

I am getting confused about the received signal expression in case of SIMO wireless channel. SIMO system=> Here we will have one antenna at Tx and multiple ($N$) antenna at Rx. Therefore received ...
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Why exponential decay power delay profiles are used to model fading?

I am trying to understand why exponential decay power delay profiles are used to model fading. In other words, why power of taps of channel impulse response decays exponentially and not, for instance, ...
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Derivation of Clarke's Doppler power spectral density

I am reading Wireless Communications by Andrea Goldsmith. I have some issues in the derivation of Clarke's Doppler power spectral density given there. 1)For beginning the autocorrelation of the in ...
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Derivation of equation 3.8 in Fundamentals of Wireless Communication by Tse and Vishwanath

In the book “Fundamentals of Wireless communication”by Tse and Vishwanath, Can someone help with the how the integration helps derive equation 3.8 ? The equation is $$ p_e= \mathbb P\left\{\left\lvert ...
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How to resolve some inconsistencies in the mathematical model for the narrowband fading channel?

I am reading Wireless Communications by Andrea Goldsmith. There the author mentions that for narrow band channel the received signal can be given as: $$r(t)=\text{Re} \left\{u(t)\text{exp}(j2\pi f_ct)\...
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On-Off keying for wireless communication channel estimation

Let us assume I have $k$ (a fixed number) sensors in a wireless sensor network with unknown channel statistics $\{h_1,h_2 \ldots, h_k\}$. In my system model, each of these $k$ sensors has an ...
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Coherent detection in fading channel

I want to design an optimum receiver for a fading AWGN channel for ML Detection. I know that in the case of non-coherent communication we have to use an energy detector(even when the fading channel is ...
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Log Path Loss Model with Directivity Accounted

Suppose that I have the log Path Loss distance model described here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-distance_path_loss_model $$PL(d,\gamma) = P_{t}-P_{r}=PL_{0}+10\gamma log_{10}\frac{d}{d_{0}}+X_{g}...
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Relation between SNR and fading channel coefficients?

I am trying to understand the following thing: Does the average signal to noise ratio (SNR) depends on fading channel coefficients ? Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
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Related to successive interference cancellation?

I am trying to understand the following query: " Is it necessary to do channel estimation to perform successive interference cancellation at the receiver operating over fading channel" Any ...
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What are TDL and CDL channel models in principle, and which variation can be used for indoor and outdoor environment, respectively?

I am making a simulation using 5G-toolbox in Matlab. IN 5Gtoolbox we have two kind of channels, CDLChannel and TDLChannel. Now, CDL means Clusteresd Delay Line, and TDL means Tapped Delay Lines. But ...
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Frame synchronization for single carrier burst applications in fading channels

I recently started to implement communication systems with software-defined radios in GNU Radio. In my system design, I am planning to transmit data in burst mode, the frames will be not sequentially ...
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Log-normal shadowing and mean power

Let's assume I'm receiving a signal with power measured in dBm shadowed according to the normal distribution, i.e. $P_{\text{dBm}} \sim N(0,1) $. If there is also a normally distributed noise power $...
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Rayleigh Fading

I am calculating the capacity of $K$ channels between a transmitter and $N$ receivers in a cellular scenario. I use the following equation: $$C_n^k = B\log_2\left(1 + \frac{Ph_n^k}{N_0B + I_n^k}\right)...
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Related to channel power gain

I am having a doubt that why channel power gain is denoted by $|h|^2$. For example, if the signal received is $$y(n) = hx(n)+w(n)$$ where $x(n)$ is transmitted signal with power $P$ , $w(n)$ is AWGN ...
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How is the distribution of the received signal affected if the transmitted signal is changed from complex Gaussian to PSK

Suppose the received signal is $y(n) = h_0s(n)+w(n)$----(1) Where $h_0, s(n), w(n)$ all are distributed as zero mean complex Gaussian. Thus I know that $y(n)$ will also have the same distribution. If $...
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understanding the distribution of received signal

In one of the research paper following equations are given : $y(n) = h_0s(n)+w(n),d = 0$ $y(n) = h_1s(n)+w(n),d = 1$ where $n$ ranges from $1$ to $N$ and $h_0,h_1$ are wireless channel assumed as $\...
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Related to wireless channel fading

I am reading some papers wherein a wireless channel is assumed as zero mean circularly symmetric complex Gaussian (ZMCSCG) with unit variance and it is also mentioned that the channel undergoes ...
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related to random nature of wireless channel

I am reading An Approximate BER Analysis for Ambient Backscatter Communication Systems With Tag Selection wherein it is mentioned that "when the distance between two nodes is very small and line ...
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What is the meaning of the channel gain is normalized

Transmitting the signal $x$ over the channel $h$ and affected by noise $n$ can be expressed: $y = hx + n$ $h$ is the channel gain, that is known for me. I sometimes see phrases saying "when the ...
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bit reversed order of FFT matrix for channel estimation

Although the question seems similar to this one HERE, but what I want to ask about is little bit different. Assume we have a signal $X$ whose length is $N$x$1$, we convert that signal into time ...
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How is channel frequency response/channel state information related to free space path loss?

As we know, the path loss can be described by the equation as $$ \frac{P_{r}}{P_{t}}=D_{t} D_{r}\left(\frac{\lambda}{4 \pi d}\right)^{2} $$ In the OFDM system, such as Wi-Fi, there are infinite paths ...
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About discrete time model for wireless channel

I am trying to understand Section 2.2.3 of the book "Fundamentals of wireless communication" by Tse and Viswanath. In this section the authors explain how to go from the continuous time ...
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Received signal's power under Raleigh fading

I am trying to understand how to calculate the power of a received signal under Raleigh fading. What I gather is that the Rayleigh fading is a complex Gaussian random variable and that the multipath ...
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Zero padding OFDM equalization

In ZP-OFDM, The convolution is linear. it's different from CP-OFDM which is circular convolution leading to have one tap equalizer in frequency domain. if I have a ZP-OFDM system, and we have a signal ...
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Fast/Slow Fading: How are doppler shift and coherence time related?

In the literature I've read that fast fading happens if the bit duration is larger than the coherence time of the channel. The coherence time of a channel is proportional to $\frac{1}{f_{Doppler}}$. ...
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Non Coherent BPSK with no Channel State Information at the receiver

Where or what is the proof for the failure of BPSK in fading channel when we have no knowledge of the fading coefficient $h$ at the receiver in the equation $y=hx+w$, where $x$ is BPSK symbol equally ...
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Compressive sensing based sparse vector estimation

I am newbie in compressive sensing (CS), I read about compressive sensing and its use for sparse vector estimation. As I understood CS can be used either in time or frequency domain. For me, The part ...
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Correlated fading channel: transmit and receive antenna correlation matrices

I am trying to create a non-i.i.d channel: correlated Rayleigh fading channel. $$ H= R_H \cdot H_o,$$ where $H_o$ is i.i.d. channel ( uncorrelated) and $ R_H$ is a channel correlation matrix, is ...
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Degrees of freedom in coding (for a communication channel)

I was reading on my lecture slides about how to achieve diversity (i.e. transmit more copies of the same message in order to avoid its corruption; this technique may be realized by repeating the ...
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Rayleigh fading channel as a scalar quantity [closed]

In most cases rayleigh channel is a vector. can a rayleigh channel be a scalar quantity i.e., can we have only one element in rayleigh fading channel.
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Is time varying channels same as circulary symmetric complex gaussian?

From the literature i understood that if the channel is non time varying then we can consider it as circularly symmetric complex gaussian distributed. So can we consider the same if the channel is ...
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Hf ionospheric channel model for large bandwidth

I know some models like the Watterson model for HF ionospheric channels but those are limited to narrow band frequencies. Are there some models to bandwidth like 12kHz up to 24 kHz?
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