NF EN 50383 : 2010

1. Scope
2. Normative references
3. Physical quantities, units and constants
    3.1 Quantities
    3.2 Constants
4. Terms and definitions
5. Applicability of compliance assessment methods
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Assessment procedure
6. Electromagnetic field measurement
    6.1 Introduction
    6.2 Surface scanning method
    6.3 Volume scanning method
7. SAR measurement
    7.1 Whole body SAR assessment
    7.2 Localised SAR measurement
8. Electromagnetic field calculation
    8.1 Scope
    8.2 Field regions
    8.3 Calculation models
9. Spatial averaging
    9.1 Description
    9.2 Validity
    9.3 Calculation
10. Assessment report
    10.1 General
    10.2 Items to be recorded in the assessment report
Annex A (informative) Boundaries between field regions
A.1 Purpose
A.2 Far-field region
A.3 Radiating near-field region
A.4 Reactive near-field region
A.5 Example of calculations within field regions at 900 MHz
Annex B (informative) Surface and volume scanning
B.1 Measurement system architecture
B.2 Calibration of the E-field and H-field measurement equipment
    and uncertainty estimation
B.3 Reflectivity measurements
B.4 Surface scanning - Spherical wave expansion
B.5 Surface scanning - Principle of back-propagation
B.6 Surface scanning - Calibration of the reference antennas
B.7 Reference documents for surface and volume scanning methods
Annex C (informative and normative) SAR measurements
C.1 General considerations (informative)
C.2 Post-processing techniques and uncertainty assessment
    (informative)
C.3 Simplified performance checking (normative)
C.4 References
Annex D (informative) Considerations on calculation methods
D.1 Example related to the synthetic method
D.2 Reactive near-field region
D.3 Considerations on the uncertainty in the case of calculation
D.4 References
Annex E (informative) Compliance boundary examples
E.1 Examples of simple compliance boundary
E.2 Complex compliance boundary
Annex F (informative) NIST 18 Term error model

Applicable to radio base stations and fixed terminal stations for wireless telecommunications systems as defined in Clause 4, operating in the frequency range 110 MHz to 40 GHz.