Comparative WLAN exposure analysis: weighted channel power method versus CCDF method

Abstract

The paper investigates the accuracy of assessing exposure to radiation emitted by sources specific to the IEEE 802.11n communication standard by two methods. The first one is based on weighing of the maximum power channel measured in the frequency domain and the second one uses the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) acquisition mode of a real-time spectrum analyzer. It has been demonstrated that the CCDF method is much proper to be applied in the case of the quasi-stochastic signals such as WLAN s.