Indoor Wideband Time/Angle of Arrival Multipath Propagation Results

Most current indoor propagation experiments measure the time of arrival of characteristics of multipath reflections without regard to angle of arrival. Because of the increasing number of systems that are used indoors and which use multiple antenna systems to combat multipath interference, a need exists for indoor propagation data which takes angle of arrival into account. In this paper, a system is described which was used to collect simultaneous time and angle of arrival data in two indoor environments. A total of 65 data sets were taken in two buildings of different construction. The data confirmed the temporal model proposed by Saleh and Valenzuela [1], and showed a unique clustering pattern in angle, which consisted of clusters uniformly distributed in angle, with members of the clusters following a Laplacian distribution.