A Review of Over‐the‐Air Testing Methods for Performance Measurement of Antennas and Devices in Communication Systems

S Duan, W Wang, B Tang, Y Wu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the fast development of communication techniques, over‐the‐air testing has developed
into the main testing method for current communication systems due to its advantages …

Plane-Wave Generation through General Near-Field In-Band Reflectarray Direct Layout Optimization with Figure of Merit Constraints in mm-Wave Band

DR Prado - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
A general near-field (NF) in-band synthesis strategy is presented for the direct layout
optimization (DLO) of reflectarrays with application to the generation of plane waves for the …

In-Situ Calibration of Plane Wave Generator in an Aperture-Limited Multi-Probe Compact Setup

Z Wang, F Zhang, W Fan - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A plane wave generator (PWG), capable of approximating a plane wave condition for over-
the-air (OTA) antenna testing with a short measurement distance, has attracted huge interest …

Reconfiguration Capabilities of the Anechoic-Reverberation Hybrid Chamber for TRP Measurements of Active Antenna Systems

PS Krasov, OA Iupikov, R Maaskant… - 2023 17th European …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hybrid, reconfigurable anechoic-reverberation antenna measurement chamber was
recently introduced with the vision to enable fast characterization of the active antenna …

Determining the Minimum Number of Plane Wave Generator Radiating Elements Based on SVD of the Transfer Matrix

S Zhu, Z Wang, W Fan, TH Loh… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a method for calculating the required minimum number of radiating
elements in a plane wave generator (PWG), formed by a linear array with electrically limited …

Constrained FoV Radiated Power as a Figure of Merit of Phased Arrays

AA Ruiz, S Hosseinzadegan… - 2023 Antenna …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose quantifying the radiated power of phased arrays or, in general,
directive antennas, by the Constrained-View Radiated Power (CVRP). The constrained view …

Over-the-Air Testing Environments with Spatial-Directional Selectivity for Characterizing Wireless Devices and Systems

AA Glazunov - 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various over-the-air (OTA) testing environments are presented, focusing on their capability
to produce single-or multi-directional channels, ie, producing a single path or multipath …

Innovative Hybrid RC-AC Test Environments and RIS-Enabled Plane Wave Generation

PS Krasov, OA Iupikov, A Vilenskiy… - 2024 Antenna …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a brief overview of two new concepts of plane wave generators (PWGs)
for applications in antenna and wireless device measurements. These PWGs aim to …

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for OTA Testing: Optimization and Initial Results

OA Iupikov, AR Vilenskiy, Y Zhu… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss a new application of RIS for Over-The-Air (OTA) testing of antenna systems and
wireless devices, particularly as a cost-effective alternative to millimeter-wave phased-array …

K− factor Emulation in Different OTA Chambers

AA Glazunov, AA Ruiz… - … Symposium on Antennas …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses over-the-air testing chambers and the principles behind emulating
Rician-distributed channel fading envelopes of the propagation channel. The discussed …