Coherence Time (communications Systems) - Simple Model

Simple Model

In a simple model, a signal transmitted at time will be received as

where is the channel impulse response (CIR) at time . A signal transmitted at time will be received as

Now, if is relatively small, the channel may be considered constant within the interval to .

Coherence time will therefore be given by

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