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The purpose of any communication system is to reliably transfer information between the source and destination. As a signal propagates through a wireless channel, it experiences random fluctuations in time, due to changes in reflections and attenuations. Thus, the channel characteristic of the channels change randomly with time. The average signal strength received by an antenna element over a local area in the propagation environment can be quite large, but during some time intervals it is not uncommon for the instantaneous signal level in a multipath environment to fall 30 dB or more below its mean level.
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Karagiannidis, G.K. et al. (2007). Diversity Techniques and Fade Mitigation. In: Corazza, G. (eds) Digital Satellite Communications. Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34649-6_8
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