Application of the Feature Selective Validation Method to radio path loss measurements

This paper describes the application of the FSV to measured propagation data. A mobile-to-mobile measurements program is currently being conducted by our colleagues at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences under the sponsorship of the Office of Spectrum Measurement. Two different measurement systems are being used to collect mobile-to-mobile data in a number of selected outdoor environments. One system uses a wideband time-domain channel sounder that uses pseudo-random noise sequences to generate channel impulse responses. The other system transmits a narrowband CW signal, and it is received by a spectrum analyzer. This paper explores the possibility of using FSV to quantify how well data obtained from these measurement systems compare.