A physical-statistical time-series model for the mobile-satellite channel

Abstract

The present work describes a time series propagation model which considers three-dimensional urban path profiles where the buildings can have unequal heights, widths and spacings. Based on the Fresnel-Kirchhoff theory, it is mainly applicable to mobile satellite propagation channels where the final building face, just before the mobile user, is the most dominant source of diffraction phenomena. Although the model is considered to adopt a deterministic type of process, the outcome of the proposed work is achieved by considering only statistical distributions for the building path profile.