Part of the spatial-diversity roadmap #127.
Goal
Every diversity claim rests on the chains' antennas being decorrelated — on a
small airframe they may not be. This issue builds the harness that measures
decorrelation instead of assuming it, so the rest of the roadmap reports real gain,
not theoretical.
Scope
- Capture per-chain channel estimates (or per-chain RSSI/EVM) under motion / fading
and compute the envelope correlation between chains.
- Report the realized diversity gain vs the theoretical ~10·log10(N) dB, as a
function of antenna separation and polarization.
- Provide a repeatable bench + field procedure (scripted, with cleanup) that other
issues can invoke to qualify a given antenna layout.
Why first
This is the reality check under #C (MRC), #D/#E (TX diversity), and #F (the
localized-corruption argument). A layout with correlated antennas caps all of them.
Part of the spatial-diversity roadmap #127.
Goal
Every diversity claim rests on the chains' antennas being decorrelated — on a
small airframe they may not be. This issue builds the harness that measures
decorrelation instead of assuming it, so the rest of the roadmap reports real gain,
not theoretical.
Scope
and compute the envelope correlation between chains.
function of antenna separation and polarization.
issues can invoke to qualify a given antenna layout.
Why first
This is the reality check under #C (MRC), #D/#E (TX diversity), and #F (the
localized-corruption argument). A layout with correlated antennas caps all of them.