A system and method for storing a power delay profile in compressed form. In some embodiments, the method includes: identifying, in a power delay profile including a first group of taps, a first arrival tap corresponding to a first arrival path; identifying a first subset of taps, the first subset being a subset of the first group and including the first arrival tap; identifying a second subset of taps, the second subset being a subset of the first group and being disjoint from the first subset; and storing, in a memory, the union of the first subset and a proper subset of the second subset.