Delay spread

Delay spread

In telecommunications, the delay spread is a measure of the multipath richness of a communications channel. In general, it can be interpreted as the difference between the time of arrival of the earliest significant multipath component (typically the line-of-sight component) and the time of arrival of the latest multipath component. The delay spread is mostly used in the characterization of wireless channels, but it also applies to any other multipath channel (e.g. multipath in optical fibers).

Delay spread can be quantified through different metrics, although the most common one is the root mean square (rms) delay spread, which is defined as follows: According to Goldsmith [1], let Ac(τ) be the power delay profile of a channel. Then, the mean delay of the channel is

\overline{\tau}=\frac{\int_0^\infty\tau A_c(\tau)d\tau}{\int_0^\infty A_c(\tau)d\tau}

Thus, the rms delay spread is

\tau_{\text{rms}}=\sqrt{\frac{\int_0^\infty(\tau-\overline{\tau})^2  A_c(\tau)d\tau}{\int_0^\infty A_c(\tau)d\tau}}

References

  1. ^ Goldsmith, Andrea (2005), Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521837163 

Bibliography

  • Saunders, Antennas and propagation for Wireless communication systems, 2nd ed, pp246-250, 2007

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