Maximum Eirp and Emf Estimation Based on Over-the-air Measurements of Wcdma Pilot Channel

This paper presented an estimation method of maximum effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) and electro-magnetic field (EMF) strength of a wideband code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) base station based on over-the-air measurements of a pilot channel in a code domain. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, we estimated the maximum EIRP and EMF strengths of the self-designed test base station, and compared them with EIRP and EMF values measured by the traditional test scheme. Then, we applied our estimation scheme to the inspection test for a commercial base station. The maximum difference between the estimated EIRP values from our method and the reported values is 1.3 dB. The estimated EMF results show more than 90% agreement with both the traditional EMF measurement value under a full-traffic load condition and the theoretical value. Therefore, it can be concluded that our proposed estimation method should be an effective inspection test for domestic base stations.