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Fast Band-Sweep Total Isotropic Sensitivity Measurement
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
  • Zixin Liu
  • Yihong Qi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Fuhai Li
  • Wei Yu
  • Jun Fan, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Ji Chen
Abstract

To provide consistent measurements of radio performance in typical complex environments, the total isotropic sensitivity (TIS) is used as a key parameter measured in anechoic chambers. Currently, the TIS measurement is based on the integration of the measured effective isotropic sensitivity at every angle over a spherical surface. This measurement is time consuming so it is only performed for three channels in a band in order to reduce overall measurement time. However, the whole band performance in real environments is critical in the research and development stage, and even in potential certification measurement. A novel fast band-sweep measurement for TIS of wireless devices is proposed in this paper. This method measures the radiated sensitivity and the average gain of the receiver antenna separately, and then combines them to obtain the TIS. The measurement of the radiated sensitivity in a band is efficiently performed based on the relationship between the bit error rate and the received power, and the band-sweep average gain of mobile antennas can be achieved through peak gain measurements. Hence, this method reduces band-sweep measurement time significantly and also ensues the measurement accuracy by eliminating the systematic error in the received signal strength indicator reporting.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Second Research Center/Lab
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Laboratory
Keywords and Phrases
  • Antennas,
  • Bit error rate,
  • Mobile antennas,
  • Receiving antennas,
  • Complex environments,
  • Measurement accuracy,
  • Real environments,
  • Received signal strength indicators,
  • Research and development,
  • Spherical surface,
  • Sweep measurements,
  • Total isotropic sensitivities,
  • Artificial intelligence,
  • Average gain antenna,
  • band-sweep measurement,
  • calibration procedure,
  • mean effective gain (MEG),
  • radiated sensitivity and conducted sensitivity,
  • receiver sensitivity analysis,
  • (TIS) measurement
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
8-1-2016
Publication Date
01 Aug 2016
Citation Information
Zixin Liu, Yihong Qi, Fuhai Li, Wei Yu, et al.. "Fast Band-Sweep Total Isotropic Sensitivity Measurement" IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility Vol. 58 Iss. 4 (2016) p. 1244 - 1251 ISSN: 0018-9375
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jun-fan/21/