The wireless channel has several characteristics that make it more unpredictable than wired channels, including multipath effects, shadow fading, Doppler shift, and delay spread. Multipath occurs as signals bounce off environmental objects, resulting in multiple copies of the signal arriving at different times. The delay spread is the time difference between the first and last arriving signals. Key channel parameters include coherence bandwidth, which is the range of frequencies over which the channel remains flat, and coherence time, which is the time over which the channel impulse response is correlated. Frequency-selective fading occurs if the signal bandwidth exceeds the coherence bandwidth, causing intersymbol interference, while flat fading results when the delay spread is less than the symbol duration. Doppler shift causes time-varying
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