| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S12845/01 |
| Title: |
A new method for characterising antenna diversity systems |
| Principal Investigator: |
Huang, Professor Y |
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| Department: |
Electrical Engineering and Electronics |
| Organisation: |
University of Liverpool |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 2003 |
Ends: |
31 October 2005 |
Value (£): |
116,074
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| Electromagnetics |
RF & Microwave Technology |
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ntenna diversity techniques are employed to mitigate the detrimental effects caused by the multipath propagation environment. The implementation of antenna diversity relies on the availability of two or more statistically uncorrelated and independent fading signals. The dives system performance has been evaluated by field measurements, which are costly, time-consuming, subject to interference and weather, and c poor accuracy and repeatability.Reverberation chambers have attracted a lot of attention recently in the EMC community as a cheap facility for EMC measurements and tests proposed research is to develop a method utilising such an indoor facility to characterise the performance of a diversity system. The theory be this proposal is that the reverberation chamber can simulate a multipath propagation channel. We would like to implement this idea using both theoretical and experimental approaches. First an optimised chamber for this application is to be developed, and the suitability for various dive schemes (some of them may not be suitable for this approach without modification of the chamber) will be identified and evaluated within the chamber. The measurement results will then be compared with the conventional outdoor measurement results. The advantages and limitation this method will be carefully examined, and the research will be concluded with detailed recommendations on how to use the new method to characterise antenna systems.
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