Long-term fading channel estimation from sample covariances

  • Authors:
  • Magnus Mossberg;Erik K. Larsson;Eva Mossberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden;Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Mathematics, Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The power attenuation dynamics for long-term log-normal fading channels in wireless communication systems is modeled by a stochastic differential equation. Estimators for the model parameters based on sample covariances from data corrupted by discrete-time measurement noise are given. It is shown that the estimators are consistent, and variance expressions are derived and compared numerically to the Cramer-Rao bound. The estimation of the model parameters allows for the design of power control algorithms.