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Assignment # 3 (Advanced Wireless Communication) Submitted By: Muhammad Tayyeb (18F-0863)

The document discusses power delay profiles (PDP) which measure the intensity of signals received through multipath channels as a function of time delay. PDPs can be used to determine channel parameters like maximum excess delay, mean excess delay, and RMS delay spread. Maximum excess delay is the difference between the earliest and latest signal arrivals above a power threshold. Mean excess delay is the statistical average delay of signals. RMS delay spread is the standard deviation of delays measured from the PDP and indicates the strength of inter-symbol interference.

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Assignment # 3 (Advanced Wireless Communication) Submitted By: Muhammad Tayyeb (18F-0863)

The document discusses power delay profiles (PDP) which measure the intensity of signals received through multipath channels as a function of time delay. PDPs can be used to determine channel parameters like maximum excess delay, mean excess delay, and RMS delay spread. Maximum excess delay is the difference between the earliest and latest signal arrivals above a power threshold. Mean excess delay is the statistical average delay of signals. RMS delay spread is the standard deviation of delays measured from the PDP and indicates the strength of inter-symbol interference.

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Assignment # 3 (Advanced Wireless Communication)

Submitted By: Muhammad Tayyeb (18F-0863)

Power Delay Profile (PDP):

The power delay profile (PDP) gives the Maximum Excess Delay:


intensity of a signal received through a
It also called Maximum Delay Spread,
multipath channel as a function of
denoted as Tm, is the relative time
time delay. The time delay is the difference
difference between the first signal
in travel time between multipath arrivals. It
components arriving at the receiver to the
can be measured empirically and can be
last component whose power level is above
used to find different channel parameters
some threshold. 
such as delay spread. With Power Delay
Profile we can classify a multipath channel Mean excess delay:
into frequency selective or frequency non-
selective category. The derived parameter, Simply the statistical mean of the delay that
namely, Maximum Excess Delay together a signal undergoes when transmitted over a
with the symbol time of each transmitted multipath channel. For a frequency
symbol, can be used to classify the channel selective WSSUS channel, the average delay
into frequency selective or non-selective is equal to the first moment of the power
channel. delay profile. 

Power Delay Profile can be used to


estimated the average power of a multipath
RMS delay spread:
channel, measured from the first signal that
strikes the receiver to the last signal whose It is equal to the second central moment of
power level is above certain threshold. The power delay profile. It is similar to the
figure of power delay profile is given as. standard deviation of a statistical
distribution. The ratio of RMS delay spread
and symbol time duration quantifies the
strength of Inter Symbol Interference. This
ratio determines the complexity of the
equalizer required at the receiver. Typically,
when the symbol time period is greater than
10 times the RMS delay spread, no ISI
equalizer is needed in the receiver.

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