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WSSUS model

The WSSUS model provides a statistical description of the transmission behavior of wireless channels. "Wide-sense stationarity" means the second-order moments of the channel are stationary, which means that they depend only on the time difference, while "uncorrelated scattering" refers to the delay τ due to scatterers. Modelling of mobile channels as WSSUS has become popular among specialists. The model was introduced by Phillip A. Bello in 1963.

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The WSSUS (Wide-Sense Stationary Uncorrelated Scattering) model provides a statistical description of the transmission behavior of wireless channels. "Wide-sense stationarity" means the second-order moments of the channel are stationary, which means that they depend only on the time difference, while "uncorrelated scattering" refers to the delay τ due to scatterers. Modelling of mobile channels as WSSUS (wide sense stationary uncorrelated scattering) has become popular among specialists. The model was introduced by Phillip A. Bello in 1963.1

A commonly used description of time variant channel applies the set of Bello functions and the theory of stochastic processes.

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  1. Matthias Pätzold, Mobile Radio Channels, ch. 7, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 ISBN 1119975255.
  • Kurth, R. R.; Snyder, D. L.; Hoversten, E. V. (1969) "Detection and Estimation Theory", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Quarterly Progress Report, No. 93 (IX), 177–205

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