Propagation at 2.0 GHz in an enclosed area using a coaxial cable with leaky sections as the transmitting antenna

摘要

This paper presents the results of narrowband and wideband propagation measurements carried out at 2.0 GHz in a large enclosed area using a coaxial cable with leaky sections as the transmitting antenna. The narrowband measurements were devised to measure attenuation of radio signals and the wideband techniques to measure multipath impulse responses and their associated root mean square delay spread. Analysis of the narrowband data files shows that the received signal levels in the direction parallel to the cable generally decay and display peaks in front of leaky sections due to the specific attenuation and special structure of the cable. The received signal levels in the direction radial to the cable decrease slowly and the distance-power law exponent is found to be slightly larger than one. The slow and fast variations of the received signal levels are also examined. The results reveal that the slow variations do not follow the lognormal distribution, while the fast variations fit the Rayleigh distribution in both parallel and radial directions. Analysis of the wideband data files yields that the maximum value of the root mean square delay spread is 86.1 ns and the root mean square delay spread values are less than 55 ns 50% of the time. One therefore can conclude that the enclosed area channel excited by the coaxial cable with leaky sections has a broad coherent bandwidth and can support the data rate up to 2.3 Mb/s without equalization.