AN ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR ESTIMATING THE K-FACTOR FROM THE PHASE OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD WITHIN A REVERBERATING CHAMBER

Abstract

In this paper, an alternative technique for estimating the Rice factor, K, is applied to the phase of electromagnetic fleld within a reverberating chamber (RC) for classifying the fading depth on the coherent components in the emulated line-of-sight (LOS) environments. The estimator is time-efiective and general, and can be applied for any angle of arrival (AoA) of the received fleld and for any time varying propagation channel as a complementary method to the classical estimators for evaluating K above all when small but consistent coherent components are present. Measurements accomplished at the RC of the Universitµa di Napoli Parthenope (formerly Istituto Universitario Navale, IUN) conflrm the goodness of the proposed technique.