Development of Recommended Practices for Synthetic Aperture Channel Sounding
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Abstract
Wireless channel sounding using synthetic aperture or virtual array techniques is an emerging area that is not yet technically mature. Most early work was motivated by COST 259 and similar work that focused on directional channels and was conducted in personal communications bands between 850 MHz and 6 GHz. More recently, efforts have focused to systems used to characterize millimetre-wave channels and have been motivated by efforts to extend 3GPP-based systems into frequency bands above 24 GHz. While synthetic or virtual array channel sounders are free from the challenges associated with mutual effects between adjacent elements and much less expensive to implement than fully populated arrays, they can only be used to characterize environments that are effectively static for the duration of the scan. Significant improvements in performance can be realized by optimizing the array lattice and improving the signal processing techniques used to extract direction of arrival information. However, past efforts to use virtual array techniques by the wireless channel sounding research community have rarely reflected the considerable knowledge and insights developed by the virtual array research community.
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