Abstract
Radio channel modeling has been an important research topic, since the performance of any communication system depends on channel characteristics. So far, most existing clustering algorithms are conducted based on the multipath components (MPCs) extracted by using a high-resolution parameter estimation approach, e.g., SAGE or MUSIC, etc. However, most of the estimation approaches require prior information to extract MPCs. Moreover, the high-resolution estimation approaches usually result in relatively high complexity, and thus, the clusters can only be identified by using an offline approach after the measurements. Therefore, a power-angle-spectrum (PAS) based clustering and tracking algorithm (PASCT) is proposed in this paper. First, a PAS is extracted from measurement data by using a Bartlett beamformer. For each PAS, the potential targets are selected from the background and separated into clusters by using image processing approaches. The recognized clusters are characterized by the following three attributes: size, position, and shape feature, where an orientation histogram is developed to describe the shape feature of the clusters. Moreover, a cost minimizing tracking approach based on Kuhn–Munkres method is proposed to accurately identify the clusters in non-stationary channels. The proposed PASCT algorithm is validated based on both simulations and measurements. It is found that the dominating clusters in both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight environments can be well recognized and tracked with the proposed algorithm. By using the proposed algorithm, the dynamic changes of the clusters in real-time channel measurements, e.g., number, birth–death process, and size of the clusters, can be well observed. Through the experiments, the proposed algorithm can achieve fairly good accuracy on the cluster identification with lower complexity compared to the conventional solution.
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