Analysis of antenna behavior in a multipath environment generated by a reverberation chamber

The paper investigates the effects of the voltage on the antenna caused by a multipath propagation environment. This type of environment was reproduced by a reverberation chamber. Both scattered and direct components were considered for the excitation of the receiving antenna, ranging from line-of-sight to non-line-of-sight conditions. A numerical solution based on a finite difference time domain code was achieved and compared with measurements inside a reverberation chamber. The method allows to balance the amount of random contributions, direct contribution and deterministic multipath contributions just like in actual propagation conditions.