Review of in-building propagation phenomena at UHF frequencies

Abstract

When both the base station and subscriber antennas are located in the cluttered multipath environment inside buildings, fast fading is observed as either antenna is moved over a distance on the order of a wavelength. The fast fading is evident in measurements made on CW signals, on individual arrivals for pulsed excitation, even for pulses as short as 5 ns. The statistical properties of the fading are discussed, along with the usual measures of the pulse response, such as path loss, mean excess delay, rms delay spread and coherence bandwidth.