Clustering Strategies applied to Binder Identification using Phantom Measurements

This paper proposes a method for the identification of TPs sharing the same binder, based on the analysis of phantom circuit measurements. Herein, phantoming is used to reveal if a 4-wire loop composed by two TPs are close enough in order to be considered in the same binder. K-means and Gaussian Mixture Model are evaluated on S11 parameter features obtained from the phantom-mode measurement of two TPs. Also, an automatic method to labelling the clusters and a method to estimate the length which two TPs share the same binder are briefly presented. Laboratory results confirm the accuracy of the methods.