Reduction of truncation error in near-field measurements of antennas of base-station mobile communication systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 593-602

  Bolomey, Jean Charles ^a   Bucci, Ovidio Mario ^b   Casavola, Luca ^a   D'Elia, G ^b   Migliore, Marco Donald ^c   Ziyyat, Abdelhak ^a  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna measurement; Near field far field transformation; Truncation error

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); EXTRAPOLATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; BASE STATION ANTENNAS; ELECTRONIC SCANNING METHODS; TRUNCATION ERROR;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 1942520956     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.823999     Document Type: Article

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