Abstract

The spectrum crunch currently experienced by mobile cellular carriers makes the underutilized millimeter-wave frequency spectrum a sensible choice for next-generation cellular communications, particularly when considering the recent advances in low cost sub-terahertz/millimeter-wave complementary metal-oxide semiconductor circuitry. To date, however, little is known on how to design or deploy practical millimeter-wave cellular systems. In this paper, measurements for outdoor cellular channels at 38 GHz were made in an urban environment with a broadband (800-MHz RF passband bandwidth) sliding correlator channel sounder. Extensive angle of arrival, path loss, and multipath time delay spread measurements were conducted for steerable beam antennas of differing gains and beamwidths for a wide variety of transmitter and receiver locations. Coverage outages and the likelihood of outage with steerable antennas were also measured to determine how random receiver locations with differing antenna gains and link budgets could perform in future cellular systems. This paper provides measurements and models that may be used to design future fifth-generation millimeter-wave cellular networks and gives insight into antenna beam steering algorithms for these systems.

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Extremely high frequencyMultipath propagationComputer scienceCellular communicationTransmitterDirectional antennaElectronic engineeringBroadbandCellular networkAntenna (radio)Bandwidth (computing)Path lossTelecommunicationsChannel (broadcasting)WirelessEngineering

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Year
2013
Type
article
Volume
61
Issue
4
Pages
1850-1859
Citations
849
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Theodore S. Rappaport, Félix Gutiérrez, Eshar Ben-Dor et al. (2013). Broadband Millimeter-Wave Propagation Measurements and Models Using Adaptive-Beam Antennas for Outdoor Urban Cellular Communications. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation , 61 (4) , 1850-1859. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2012.2235056

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10.1109/tap.2012.2235056