The Semi Reverberating Chamber (SRC) Used for Emulating Typical Real-Life Environments

The Reverberating Chamber (RC) is a standard tool for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) applications and is becoming always more attractive in the wireless applications fields. In this paper, a new RC setup is proposed, i.e. the RC with two anechoic corners (hereinafter the Semi Reverberating Chamber, SRC). This new setup is shown to be a very powerful tool to emulate real life environment, e.g. the indoor. Experiments accomplished at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, formerly Istituto Universitario Navale (IUN) show the good agreement between the actual indoor environment and the SRC measurements in terms of both power delay profile (PDP) and autocorrelation function (ACF).