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Wireless communications has been plagued by our inability to fully understand how radio waves behave in complicated channels. In the past, anti-fading and anti-multipath techniques such as diversity and equalization have been used to combat the random small-scale fluctuations induced by radio channels, and propagation models were developed to help the communication engineer design radio links in a statistical sense, without much hope for complete understanding of the channel conditions at any particular time or location. Given the difficulty of predicting instantaneous channel conditions, a common thread in radio communication system design has historically been that first there must be good firstorder models to successfully deploy radio system links, and then some form of diversity or equalization must be used to ensure a particular outage criterion is met during rapid changes in the channel.
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Rappaport, T.S., Seidel, S.Y., Schaubach, K.R. (1993). Site-Specific Propagation Prediction for PCS System Design. In: Feuerstein, M.J., Rappaport, T.S. (eds) Wireless Personal Communications. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 197. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3162-3_17
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