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The results of channel soundings taken on a selection of six different industrial sites are presented. These results focus on the RMS delay spreads calculated from the channel soundings and the distribution of these results for each site. The distribution of RMS delay spread values is analysed and forms the basis of a statistical description of the multipath propagation on the tested sites. In particular the distribution is used to define the expected propagation delay across the site. The relation between the RMS delay spread and the irreducible-BER is discussed and this is used to link the distribution of RMS delay spread values to bit error rate performance on industrial sites. It is seen that the environment surrounding sites is significant.
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Andrew H. Kemp Andrew was born in Portsmouth, UK in 1963. He received a BSc from the University of York in 1984 and PhD from the University of Hull in 1991. His doctoral studies investigated the use of complementary sequences in multi-functional architectures for use in CDMA systems. He spent several years working in Libya and South Africa assisting in seismic exploration and worked at the University of Bradford as a research assistant investigating the use of Blum, Blum and Shub sequences for cryptographically secure 3rd generation systems. More recently he helped develop wireless fieldbus systems for industrial sites and is now lecturing at the University of Leeds, UK in communications. Andrew has over 30 scientific journals and conference papers and a book chapter published. His research interests are in multipath propagation studies to assist system development and wireless broadband connection to computer networks incorporating quality of sevice provision.
Edmund B. Bryant Ed Bryant was born in Staffordshire, UK in 1967. After a state education he graduated from Leeds Polytechnic with a BEng in Communication Engineering in 1990. He received a NERC case award for a doctorate at the University of Sheffield in 1991, and achieved a PhD in 1995 entitled ‘Radio Tracking of Pinnipeds’. He was subsequently employed by the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit as a Research Fellow investigating low power radio location systems. In 1997 he spent time in industry designing electronic warfare receivers until he returned to academia at the University of Leeds in 1998. His primary research interests were in channel sounder design and multipath radiowave propagation studies. He left the University of Leeds as a Senior Research Fellow in 2003 to run his own company developing GPS receivers for marine animal research.
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Kemp, A.H., Bryant, E.B. Channel Sounding of Industrial Sites in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. Wireless Pers Commun 31, 235–248 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-004-4169-z
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