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Part of the proposed material currently complements a lecture on Mobile Communications Systems corresponding to the fifth year of a Telecommunications Engineering course (Masters degree) at the University of Vigo, Spain. This lecture is complemented by simulation work carried out during one semester in sessions of two hours per week, where several issues related to the mobile radio channel and, in general, to any radio channel are studied by means of simulations carried out in Matlab.
This book covers a number of issues related to the mobile or wireless propagation channel on a step-by-step basis, where we briefly introduce the needed theoretical background relevant to the topic at the beginning of each chapter. This book is not intended as a theoretical book with a full coverage of the various fundamental concepts, and existing models. It is rather a complement to such books. A thorough coverage of the various topics discussed in this book can found in some of the books mentioned in the References of the various chapters.
This book is structured as follows: first a brief theoretical background is provided, then a number of simulation projects are proposed. In some cases, further theoretical background relative to each specific project is provided. Then, we go on to describe the simulation approach followed. The basic result in each simulation is a synthetic series. This is further processed to obtain a number of statistical parameters, e.g., a cumulative distribution. The obtained results are commented upon to point out the underlying concepts, and the influence of the inputs employed. The codes for all projects will be provided by the authors on request, see email addresses below. The reader is also prompted to change the inputs to observe the influence of such changes in the obtained results. Sometimes, the reader is also encouraged to modify the code provided to implement other algorithms not included in the text. Each chapter ends with a list of references, and the list of Matlab scripts and functions used.