Statistical Analysis of Multipath Fading Channels Using Generalizations of Shot-Noise

This paper provides a connection between the shot-noise analysis of Rice and the statistical analysis of multipath fading wireless channels when the received signals are a low-pass signal and a bandpass signal. Under certain conditions, explicit expressions are obtained for autocorrelation functions, power spectral densities, and moment-generating functions. In addition, a central limit theorem is derived identifying the mean and covariance of the received signals, which is a generalization of Campbell_s theorem. The results are easily applicable to transmitted signals which are random and to CDMA signals.

This article has been funded by the University of Tennessee's Open Publishing Support Fund.