Generalized Statistics of Antenna Efficiency Measurement in a Reverberation Chamber

Author

Xiaoming Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden

Volume

62

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

Mar-14

Firstpage

1504

Lastpage

1507

Abstract

Statistics of the measured antenna efficiency using the reverberation chamber (RC) technique (proposed in IEC 61000-4-21) has been derived by assuming that the measurements of the antenna under test (AUT) and the reference antenna have the same independent sample number. This work generalizes the statistics of the measured antenna efficiency by allowing the AUT measurement and the reference measurement to have different numbers of independent samples. The derived statistics are verified by simulations as well as RC measurements. Moreover, practical issues about how to allocate the total measurement time to the AUT and reference measurements for different cases are discussed.

Keywords

IEC standards; antenna testing; reverberation chambers; statistical analysis; AUT; RC measurements; antenna efficiency measurement; antenna under test; generalized statistics; reference measurement; reverberation chamber; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Reverberation chambers; Standards; Time measurement; Velocity measurement; Antenna efficiency; measurement; reverberation chamber (RC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2013.2295420

Filename

6689330