Accounting for Wind Effects on Fixed Wireless Channels in Suburban Macrocell Environments

Based upon coherent (amplitude and phase) received signal strength data collected over fixed wireless macrocell channels at almost 100 locations in residential, campus and open area environments near the University of British Columbia, the authors have shown that Thoen's model for fixed wireless Doppler spectra fits observed Doppler spectra remarkably well. This allows one to extract the equivalent maximum Doppler frequency for such channels and determine both: its marginal distribution, which is surprisingly narrow, and its joint distribution with Ricean K-factor and wind speed in typical suburban macrocell environments.