Reflection and transmission behaviour of building materials at 60 GHz

Mobile radio communications at very high data rates require wide bandwidths which are only available at very high frequency bands. In order to model millimetre wave radio scenarios profound knowledge of the reflection and transmission properties of building materials is required. For a variety of typical smooth and rough building materials reflection scattering, bistatic reflection and transmission measurements have been carried out at 50 GHz. This document introduces briefly the basic physical principles of reflection and transmission as well as the used measuring technique. The measurement results are presented graphically and in tabular form. Additionally, the comparison of measured and calculated profiles is given, using a heuristic approach for permittivity estimation