A13: Mode-Stir Chambers

Friday, August 22  13:40-15:20,  Room #18

Session Chairs: Per-Simon Kildal, Guillaume Andrieu

Electromagnetic reverberation chamber or mode-stir chambers were originally used as an environment for EMC testing, but during the last 13 year they have s also been developed into an environment for accurate testing of wireless devices for digital communication systems. The session will be open for different contributions related to testing in reverberation chambers, and in particular the emulation of rich isotropic multipath and accurate testing of wireless devices.

13:40  A13.1   EFFECT OF LOADING A MODE-STIRRED CHAMBER WITH ANTENNAS ON Q-FACTOR AND COMPARISON TO THEORY

H. Vallon1,2, A. -S. Chauchat2, F. Monsef1, A. Cozza1

1Département de Recherche en Electromagnétisme, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes-UMR8506 (CNRS-SUPELEC-Univ Paris-Sud), Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne, France
2THALES Communications & Security, Gennevilliers,Île-de-France, France


14:00  A13.2   OVER-THE-AIR LTE MEASUREMENTS IN THE REVERBERATION CHAMBER

X. Chen, A. Hussian, P. -S. Kildal

Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden


14:20  A13.3   TIME-DOMAIN ASSESSMENT OF THE UNSTIRRED RAYS IN REVERBERATION CHAMBERS

G. Andrieu, A. Reineix

OSA department, XLIM Laboratory, University of Limoges, Limoges, France


14:40  A13.4   VALIDATION OF UNCERTAINTY MODEL FOR REVERBERATION CHAMBER MEASUREMENTS

X. Chen, P. -S. Kildal

Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden


15:00  A13.5   ACTUAL ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERN MEASUREMENTS IN REVERBERATION CHAMBER

M. -A. García-Fernández, G. Andrieu, C. Decroze, D. Carsenat

OSA, XLIM Laboratory, University of Limoges, Limoges, France