Evaluation of the performances of several four-antenna systems in a reverberation chamber

This paper results from a short-term mission granted by the COST 284 where the antenna-design competences of the LEAT have been gathered with the measurement skills of Chalmers Institute of Technology. Three multi-antenna prototypes have been characterized in the Bluetest reverberation chamber in terms of total efficiency and diversity gain. Particularly the performances of an initial four-antenna system with poor isolation have been evaluated with and without the presence of a phantom head and then we characterized in the same manner two prototypes with highly decoupled antennas. The paper especially focused on demonstrating that the neutralization technique is still giving improvements in the presence of the user's head.