The Reverberating Chamber as a Line-of-Sight Wireless Channel Emulator

Antonio Sorrentino, Giuseppe Ferrara, Maurizio Migliaccio

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation · 2008 · 59 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

The reverberating chamber (RC) is employed to physically emulate line-of-sight (LOS) propagation channels and to test the quality of a digital transmission. Use of different absorber configurations is able to generate various LOS propagation channels. The LOS channels are objectively characterized by the Rician K factor and results show that K is not generally dependent only on the number of absorbers but also on their configuration. Experiments are accomplished at the electrically large mode-stirred RC of the Universita di Napoli Parthenope, formerly Istituto Universitario Navale (IUN) and a global system for mobile communications (GSM) digital signal is used.

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