TY - JOUR 
A1 - Hallbjörner, Paul
AU - Sánchez Heredia, Juan Diego
AU - Lindberg, Peter
AU - Martínez González, Antonio Manuel
AU - Bolin, Thomas
T1 - Multipath simulator measurements of handset dual antenna performance with limited number of signal paths
Y1 - 2012
SN - 0018-926X
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/3937
AB - Antenna pairs for diversity or MIMO functionality are characterized under the assumption of a certain statistical distribution of the incident signals over angle and polarization, but also assuming a signal environment with a large number of signal paths. In many real-life environments, however, only a few signal
paths contain most of the transferred power. A multipath simulator can be used to realize signal environments with a controlled number of signal paths. This paper presents measurements of dual antenna performance using amultipath simulator with 2–16 signal
paths. The results are analyzed in terms of statistical power distributions,power imbalance, correlation coefficient, multiplexing efficiency, and diversity gain. Differences in performance depending
on the number of signal paths are noted, illustrating the value of considering the number of signal paths in characterization.
KW - Antenna measurements
KW - Multipath simulator
KW - Signal environment
KW - Sparse environment
KW - Terminal antenna
LA - eng
PB - IEEE
ER -