Abstract

The millimeter wave frequency spectrum offers unprecedented bandwidths for future broadband cellular networks. This paper presents the world's first empirical measurements for 28 GHz outdoor cellular propagation in New York City. Measurements were made in Manhattan for three different base station locations and 75 receiver locations over distances up to 500 meters. A 400 megachip-per-second channel sounder and directional horn antennas were used to measure propagation characteristics for future mm-wave cellular systems in urban environments. This paper presents measured path loss as a function of the transmitter - receiver separation distance, the angular distribution of received power using directional 24.5 dBi antennas, and power delay profiles observed in New York City. The measured data show that a large number of resolvable multipath components exist in both non line of sight and line of sight environments, with observed multipath excess delay spreads (20 dB) as great as 1388.4 ns and 753.5 ns, respectively. The widely diverse spatial channels observed at any particular location suggest that millimeter wave mobile communication systems with electrically steerable antennas could exploit resolvable multipath components to create viable links for cell sizes on the order of 200 m.

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Multipath propagationDelay spreadExtremely high frequencyTransmitterDirectional antennaBroadbandHorn antennaComputer sciencePath lossTelecommunicationsChannel (broadcasting)Base stationAcousticsElectronic engineeringElectrical engineeringPhysicsAntenna (radio)EngineeringSlot antennaWireless

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2013
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Yaniv Azar, George N. Wong, Kevin Wang et al. (2013). 28 GHz propagation measurements for outdoor cellular communications using steerable beam antennas in New York city. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icc.2013.6655399

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10.1109/icc.2013.6655399