COMMUNICATION THROUGH RANDOM MULTIPATH MEDIA

Abstract

The performance capabilities of some specific techniques for communicating through noisy, randomly time-varying multipath channels are considered. Analysis is undertaken in sufficient depth to give guidance in the selection of design parameters of various types of systems. The results permit some comparisons to be made of the performance potentials of different communication techniques. Bounds on the communication rate possible with an adaptive matched-filter receiving technique are obtained as functions of the channel-sound effort, the signal characteristics, and the channel characteristics. The performance characteristics of a class of radiometric signal detection techniques that require no channel sounding provisions are analyzed. An investiga tion of the performance of some elementary narrowband multipath communication techniques indicates that they may offer competitive per formance potentials under some conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 06, 1963
Accession Number
AD0410286

Entities

People

  • D. P. Harris

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Blood Coagulation Factors
  • Channel Models
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Shift
  • Information Theory
  • Measurement
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Detection
  • Signal Processing
  • Waveform Generators
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design