A METHOD DISTINGUISHING LINE OF SIGHT (LOS) FROM NON-LINE OF SIGHT (NLOS) IN CDMA MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method that identifies whether a channel is LOS or NLOS in a mobile communication system. After coherent accumulation and non-coherent accumulation have been made by the system, first the method takes power difference of a LOS path and a NLOS path in a same power delay profile to identify a channel; and then the result is further determined by tau / sigma difference of a LOS channel and a NLOS channel (where tau and sigma is a mean delay and a RMS delay spread of a multipath power profile, respectively). A channel is determined as a LOS channel, if the power ratio of the Maximum Path to the Local Maximum Path is greater than a threshold K, and simultaneously the arrival time difference between the First Path and said Maximum Path is less than a time interval T; otherwise it is a NLOS channel. The method is easier to implement and compatible with the present mobile communication system. <IMAGE>