Direction of arrival measurements for outdoor-to-indoor channel characterization

Author

Akhdar, O. ; Carsenat, D. ; Decroze, C. ; Mouhamadou, M. ; Monediere, T.

Author_Institution

OSA Dept., Limoges Univ., Limoges

fYear

2009

fDate

23-27 March 2009

Firstpage

2280

Lastpage

2282

Abstract

A channel model should include information about the angle of multipath arrivals in order to characterize the propagation channel. In this paper, we present results from a large set of direction of arrival (DOA) measurements performed for both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) conditions. The aim of this paper is to establish channel models by characterising the propagation in outdoor-to-indoor case at 3.5 GHz. These models will be used to simulate a WIMAX system. A description of the measurement system developed and used throughout the experiments is made.

Keywords

direction-of-arrival estimation; indoor communication; multipath channels; radiowave propagation; wireless channels; direction-of-arrival measurement; frequency 3.5 GHz; non line-of-sight; outdoor-to-indoor propagation channel characterization; Antenna measurements; Cables; Delay estimation; Frequency synthesizers; Performance evaluation; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Signal generators; WiMAX;

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

5068071