Patent ID: 8144824

Claim:
A method for determining a communication channel location, the method comprising steps of: averaging a first subset of a plurality of channel impulse responses over a first time period to produce a first filtered channel impulse response; averaging a second subset of the plurality of channel impulse responses over a second time period to produce a second filtered channel impulse response, wherein: the second time period is different than the first time period, and the second subset is different from the first subset; determining at least two of a first arriving path (FAP), a first last arriving path (LAP) or a first delay spread using the first filtered channel impulse response; determining at two of a second FAP, a second LAP or a second delay spread using the second filtered channel impulse response; and determining the communication channel location using the first filtered channel impulse response and the second filtered channel impulse, wherein determining the communication channel location comprises a step of determining the communication on channel location using the at least two of the first FAP, a first LAP or a first delay spread and the at least two of a second FAP, a second LAP, or the second delay spread.