2-D field reconstruction: A measurement “sandbox” for spatial correlation analysis

Author

Pirkl, Ryan J. ; Durgin, Gregory D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2009

fDate

23-27 March 2009

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

234

Abstract

Measurements of a wireless channel´s spatial correlation guide the development of multi-antenna wireless systems that use spatial diversity. Representative spatial channel measurements are required to design these multi-antenna systems, but typical measurements of spatial correlation obtained by moving an antenna array through a wireless channel provide limited correlation data that cannot be generalized to antenna arrays with different geometries. In contrast, the complete 2-D spatial channel data provided by electromagnetic field reconstruction enables a wide range of spatial correlation analyses including channel correlation matrices for completely arbitrary array geometries.

Keywords

antenna arrays; correlation methods; diversity reception; electromagnetic fields; matrix algebra; wireless channels; 2D field reconstruction; antenna array; channel correlation matrix; electromagnetic field reconstruction; multiantenna wireless system; representative spatial channel measurement; spatial correlation analysis; spatial diversity; wireless channel; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Electric variables measurement; Electromagnetic forces; Electromagnetic measurements; Fading; Force measurement; Geometry; Surface reconstruction; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4753-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-00-024573-2

Type

conf

Filename

5067612