On Probe weighting for MIMO OTA testing in anechoic chamber setups

The multi-probe anechoic chamber method is promising for OTA testing. The reason can be attributed to its potential for enabling evaluating MIMO terminals in realistic environments. The focus of the paper is on investigating how to create desired spatial channel models with the multi-probe anechoic chamber setups. Simulation results have shown that with the discussed methods, the number of probes and probe power weights determine to which level the spatial characteristics of the target channel models can be accurately approximated. With the optimized weights, better agreement is achieved for all scenarios compared with the direct sampling methods.