In radar processing, multipath causes ghost targets to appear, deceiving the radar receiver. These ghosts are particularly bothersome since they move and behave like the normal targets (which they echo), and so the receiver has difficulty in isolating the correct target echo. These problems can be overcome by incorporating a ground map of the radar's surroundings and eliminating all echoes whic...

In this paper, the product of two α-k-μ random variables is analyzed. The closed form expressions for average level crossing rate (LCR) of product of two α-k-μ random variables are determined. These expressions are used for calculation of average level crossing rate of wireless communication systems operating over α-k-μ multipath fading channels. The α-k-μ distribution can be used to describe s...

A general approach that allows the extension of an CRB-achieving unbiased frequency estimator developed for the AWGN channel to be used for the multipath fading channel by using a periodic transmit sequence is given. The optimality of its performance is guaranteed in a multipath fading channel under certain conditions. The proposed method has low complexity but a reduced frequency operating ran...

The coherent reception of Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access(DSCDMA) signals in a multipath fading channel is considered. The channel model assumes independent paths with Nakagami fading statistics. This model includes the Rayleigh channel as a special case and a reasonable model for a frequency selective fading channel. The bit error rate(BER) performance of a RAKE receiver under va...

Minimizing the outage probability and maximizing throughput are two important aspects in device to device (D2D) communications, which are greatly related to each other. In this paper, first, the exact formulas of the outage probability for D2D communications underlaying or overlaying cellular network are derived which jointly experience Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh multipat...

We propose a new framework for multiuser detection in fast-fading channels that are encountered in many mobile communication scenarios. Existing multiuser RAKE receivers, developed to combat multipath fading and multiuser interference in slow fading, suffer substantial degradation in performance under fast fading due to errors in channel state estimation. The detectors proposed in this paper em...

Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access Schemes (MC-CDMA) have been recently introduced in existing CDMA based systems to improve security, data transmission rate and to minimize Inter Symbol Interference (ISI). CDMA experiences severe multipath fading which badly affects its performance. By transmitting identical narrowband DirectSequence (DS) waveforms using frequency diversity, in paralle...

Multipath performance is an important consideration for chaos-based communication systems. In this letter, the performance of the FM-DCSK communication system over multipath fading channels is evaluated by computer simulations. Both Rayleigh fading and Ricean fading are considered, and the low-pass equivalent model of the FM-DCSK system is used in the simulation. Based on this model, we analyze...

In this paper, we determine bit error rate in detecting low-density parity-check (LDPC)-coded multilevel phase shift keying (MPSK) signals transmitted over shadowed multipath fading channels. By using recently proposed extended generalized K fading model, we determine performance of several constructed LDPC codes constructed by the progressive edge growth algorithm for different values of sever...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandate for locating the position of wireless 911 callers is fueling research in the area of mobile-positioning technologies. Overlapping multipath propagation is one of the main sources of mobile-positioning errors, especially in fast channel fading situations. In this paper we develop a technique for detecting and providing an estimate of the number...