Patent ID: 7941302
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method of simulating a propagation channel, comprising: obtaining a channel power angular distribution such that one or more receiving clusters are identified at a receiving side of the propagation channel and one or more transmitting clusters are identified at a transmitting side of the propagation channel to map the power relationship between the receiving clusters and the transmitting clusters; generating a time-varying channel realization sequence which represents how the response of the propagation channel varies with time by using the relationship between the receiving clusters and the transmitting clusters and one or more actual antenna radiation patterns as measured from one or more antennae; adding an antenna element isolation effect to said time-varying channel realization sequence such that the response of the propagation channel includes mutual coupling impedance; and applying baseband abstraction to the time varying channel realization sequence to generate one or more effects of the propagation channel including, but not limited to, one or more of, scattering, diffraction, and line-of-sight propagation so that one or more system metrics are generated based on the time varying channel realization sequence.