Over-the-air testing of wireless devices in heavily loaded reverberation chambers

This chapter covers some of the key issues related to the use of heavily loaded reverberation chambers for OTA testing of wireless-device performance. It specifically adresses the cases where the communication signal is spread over a wide modulation bandwidth and must be demodulated and cases in which a particular PDP is to be replicated. Metrics used to characterize the chamber configuration, such as the reference power transfer function, spatial uniformity, isotropy, and chamber decay time, are not significantly different from those used in prior work of the EMC/EMI community. However, their application to the case where significant correlation exists between frequencies and spatial samples requires additional consideration.