Using the Kurtosis Measure to Identify Clusters in Wireless Channel Impulse Responses

• Published in: IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 3392 - 3395
• Main Author: Gentile, C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.06.2013; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Clustering algorithms; Decay constant; Delays; Exact sciences and technology; exponential; Government; Hidden Markov models; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Linear programming; lognormal; Radiocommunications; Radiowave propagation; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Wireless communication; Measurement; Validation; exponential; lognormal; Statistical moment; Multipath propagation; Decay constant; Cluster; Radiofrequency; Lognormal distribution; Building wall; Pulse response; Classification; Wireless network; Large scale; Visual control

In wireless channel propagation, multipath arrivals appear at the receiver in clusters. Because the notion of clusters tends to be intuitive rather than well-defined, cluster identification in channel impulse responses has traditionally been carried out through human visual inspection. Besides time-...