Experimental investigation of the characteristics of the electromagnetic reverberation in the UWB bands

Author

Bamba, Aliou ; Joseph, Wout ; Tanghe, Emmeric ; Martens, Luc ; Gaillot, Davy Paul ; Lienard, Martine ; Molina-Garcia-Pardo, Jose-Maria ; Martinez-Ingles, Maria-Teresa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., iMinds, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

1181

Lastpage

1182

Abstract

The electromagnetic reverberation time characteristics are investigated at UltraWide Band (UWB) frequencies, i.e., from 2 to 10 GHz. The reverberation time is bandwidth independent and decreases as the frequency increases. Besides, the reverberation ratio - the contribution of the diffuse fields in the total power - is addressed as well. The reverberation ratio increases also with larger Tx-Rx separation, and shows a resonance phenomena as a function of the frequency. A maximum value of the reverberation ratio of 0.6 is obtained for the investigated scenarios in the room.

Keywords

multipath channels; reverberation; ultra wideband communication; Tx-Rx separation; UWB frequencies; diffuse fields; electromagnetic reverberation time characteristics; frequency 2 GHz to 10 GHz; resonance phenomena; reverberation ratio; ultrawide band frequencies; Absorption; Bandwidth; Density measurement; Resonant frequency; Reverberation; Time-frequency analysis; Reverberation time; diffuse multipath components; power density; reverberation ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6904917

Filename

6904917