Measurement and Analysis of the Indoor Radio Channel in the Frequency Domain

Using a network analyzer, several experiments for the frequency-domain characterization of the indoor radio channel in the 0.91.1-GHz band are performed. In the experiments, the frequency response measurements are taken at spatially distributed locations throughout the test area by fixing the receiver in a central location and moving the transmitter to different locations. The experiments were performed in a high-rise office building and a three-story building with offices and laboratories. For each experiment, the exponent of the power-distance relationship and the statistics of the 3-dB width of the frequency correlation function are determined from the frequency-domain data. The approximation to the impulse response of the channel is obtained from the inverse Fourier transform of the frequency response. An empirical exponential relationship between the 3-dB width of the frequency correlation function and the inverse of the rms delay spread of the impulse response is derived.