Advances in mode-stirred reverberation chambers for wireless communication performance evaluation

Reverberation chambers (RC) are a popular tool for laboratory wireless communication performance evaluation, and their sandardization for Over-The-Air (OTA) measurements is underway. Yet, the inherent limitations of singlecavity RCs to emulate isotropic Rayleigh-fading scenarios with uniform phase d...

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Autores: García Fernández, Miguel Ángel, Sánchez Heredia, Juan Diego, Martínez González, Antonio Manuel, Sánchez Hernández, David Agapito, Valenzuela Valdés, Juan Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/1934
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1934
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mode-stirred reverberation chambers
Wireless communication
Over-The-Air (OTA)
Rayleigh channels
Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones
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Sumario:Reverberation chambers (RC) are a popular tool for laboratory wireless communication performance evaluation, and their sandardization for Over-The-Air (OTA) measurements is underway. Yet, the inherent limitations of singlecavity RCs to emulate isotropic Rayleigh-fading scenarios with uniform phase distribution and high elevation angular spread put their representation of realistic scenarios into jeopardy. Recent advances in the last few years, however, have solved all these limitations by using more general mode-stirred reverberation chambers (MSC), wherein the number of cavities, their stirring and coupling mechanisms, and their software postprocessing algorithms is far from simple, representing a new era for wireless communications research, development, and over-the-air testing. This article highlights recent advances in the development of second-generation mode-stirred chambers for wireless communications performance evaluation