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What are the various factors responsible for fading in wireless communication?
The factors which influence small scale fading are: Multipath propagation, Speed of the mobile, Speed of surrounding objects and the transmission bandwidth of the signal.
What are the causes of fast and slow fading?
Wireless Communications Fast fading and slow fading are considered as small-scale fading. Frequency dispersion due to Doppler spreading causes the transmitted signal to undergo either fast fading or slow fading, where the high Doppler spread gives rise to fast fading and the low Doppler spread brings about slow fading.
What causes frequency selective fading?
Frequency selective fading occurs when the symbol length is shorter than the delay spread, or equivalently when signal bandwidth is larger than the channel bandwidth.
What is effect of fading?
Fading can cause poor performance in a communication system because it can result in a loss of signal power without reducing the power of the noise. This signal loss can be over some or all of the signal bandwidth.
What causes the fading of a radio signal?
Fading occurs due the fluctuations in the received signal power mainly due to the variation in the signal power amplitude and signal phase because of the different object present on the radio signal path produce attenuation of its power as they can absorb or scatter part of the signal (due to different practical phenomena like reflections,…
How is the strength of a signal affected by fading?
This causes the variation in the overall strength of the received signal. Thus is known as fading. It is noteworthy that due to fading the strength of the signal shows variation from a few dBs to around 10 or 20 dB. This depends on the condition that whether fading is normal or severe.
What is the definition of fading in wireless communication?
Definition: Fading in wireless communication is defined as the fluctuation in the strength of the signal received at the receiver. These are basically unwanted variations introduced at the time when the signal propagates from an end to another by taking multiple paths.
Why does fading occur at the time of propagation?
So, as this type of fading is frequency selective, thus at the time of propagation, even adjacent parts of the signal fade independently even if their frequency of separation is small. Hence we can say, this causes severe distortion of the modulated signal.