Fast Fading Characterization for Indoor to Indoor and Outdoor to Indoor Channels

This work models the fast fading characteristics in indoor to indoor and outdoor to indoor channels at 3.8 GHz. Starting from real world measurements, the fast fading characteristics are extracted and properly modeled, taking into account the nodes movement conditions. For static environments, the fast fading is modeled with the well known Ricean distribution. As expected the K-factor depends on the path loss. On the other hand, in mobile environments, the probability density function of the signal envelope is accurately described by the recently developed second-order scattering fading (SOSF) distribution. The SOSF distribution combines the Rayleigh, Ricean and double Rayleigh fading and any linear combinations of these. Our results show that the higher the mobility, the more severe is the fading.