A stochastic multi‐antenna matrix channel model for efficient link‐level simulations

The availability of realistic propagation channel models and computationally affordable channel simulators is a fundamental brick for the design of effective wireless mobile communication systems, since fading mitigation techniques in both temporal and spatial domains attract nowadays main designers' interest. This paper proposes a novel channel model and related channel simulator expressly conceived for link-level simulations of wireless communication links wherein both transmitters (TXs) and receivers (RXs) may be equipped with an array of antennas. Physical propagation effects generating spatial and temporal fading, along with the possible presence of scatterers, are taken into account. The structure of the channel simulator is designed to maintain affordable computational burden, through an efficient time-varying finite impulse response (FIR) filter bank implementation. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.