Performance evaluation of propagation control devices for active propagation control

Abstract

The authors have proposed “Active Propagation Control” (APC) as a method to improve receiving transmission performance of a wireless communication channel. By APC, we can obtain better transmission performance by changing propagation characteristics actively in some ways, such as moving, rotating or transforming objects in the surrounding environment. In this paper, we evaluate the variation performance of the propagation characteristics of propagation control devices by indoor experiments to show the fundamental effectiveness of APC quantitatively.