Angular and Shadowing Characteristics of Dense Multipath Components in Indoor Radio Channels

The dense multipath components (DMC) represent the part of the radio channel that cannot be characterized by using the specular components (SC). In this paper, the propagation characteristics of the DMC are analyzed in indoor environments based on extensive channel measurements. The results show that the contribution of the DMC to the total received power can vary as much as between 10% and 95%, being generally higher in non-line-of-sight than in line-of-sight scenarios. However, it was found that the DMC have a well distinguishable structure in the angular domain in all the investigated scenarios and, furthermore, the propagation mechanisms of the SC and DMC have large similarities. In addition, the effect of shadowing objects on the SC and DMC has been investigated.