  This paper investigates the impact of complex excitation errors of the
chamber array antenna on the accuracy of the test zone of a random
line-of-sight over-the-air testing setup. First, several combinations of
compact chamber arrays of lengths L and short distances D between the test zone
and the chamber array, which emulate a plane wave impinging at the test zone
are obtained. The chamber array is linear and uniform with 100 antenna
elements, and a linear taper was applied to some of the elements to emulate a
plane wave impinging at the test zone with more compact setups. A subset of L
and D was chosen, providing compact over-the-air test setups that fulfilled the
defined figures of merit, which assess the similarity of the obtained field
distribution to that of a plane wave. The tolerance of the chosen setups to
complex excitation errors of the chamber array was then investigated,
concluding that these errors must be considered when defining appropriate L and
D combinations. Moreover, the performance of the matched filter and
zero-forcing algorithms is evaluated for errors of the device under test array
weighting coefficients. A random line-of-sight over-the-air testing setup with
two arrays was simulated, where one of the arrays emulated the desired signal
and the other emulated the interference, observing that the errors were more
significant at higher signal-to-noise ratios. Additionally, the zero-forcing
algorithm was more sensitive to errors than the matched filter, which was
expected since the accuracy of the former for interference suppression is
critical.
