Band-Limitation Effects on Microwave Oven Noise in the 2.4-GHz Band

Yasushi MATSUMOTO  Takahide MURAKAMI  Katsumi FUJII  Akira SUGIURA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B   No.3   pp.1307-1312
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.3.1307
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Electromagnetic Compatibility(EMC)
Keyword: 
EMI measurement,  microwave oven noise,  electromagnetic noise,  ISM band,  wireless LAN,  

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Summary: 
Electromagnetic noise radiated from microwave ovens may cause serious interference problems in wireless systems using the 2.4-GHz band. Since oven noise waveforms show strong dependence on the frequency selectivity of the receiver filters, the effect of band limitation on the interfering oven noise is an important issue for evaluating or comparing the performance degradation of wireless systems subject to interference. To understand these effects, theoretical and experimental investigations of the waveform, peak amplitude, and pulse width of band-limited oven noise are carried out. It is found that the peak amplitude of the received noise changes with the bandwidth in a way very similar to the case of a simple RF tone-burst input. The pulse width of the received noise also changes with the receiver bandwidth but takes a minimum value at a certain receiver bandwidth, which is an essential feature of band-limited microwave oven noise. In addition, an appropriate resolution bandwidth is determined for using a spectrum analyzer to obtain accurate oven noise parameters.