Test on antennas in a Reverberating Chamber and comparison with anechoic chamber

Nowadays the Reverberating Chamber (RC) are used in a wide range of applications, such as wireless propagation emulation in which is important to emphasize the behavior of an antenna. This paper proposes a RC approach for evaluating the performance of an antenna when a direct link is present. Comparison with anechoic chamber (AC) shows the good agreement obtained. Experiments accomplished at RC and at the AC of the Università di Napoli Parthenope (formerly Istituto Universitario Navale, IUN) confirm the soundness of the proposed model and the effectiveness of the approach from an operational viewpoint.