On the capacity of 60 GHz wireless communications

Author

Zhang, Hao ; Gulliver, T. Aaron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 May 2009

Firstpage

936

Lastpage

939

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the channel capacity of 60 GHz wireless communications over additive white Gaussian noise channels. The channel capacity with phase shift keying (PSK) is investigated under FCC power constraints for the unlicensed 59- 64 GHz radio spectrum. It is shown that the capacity of 60 GHz wireless communications is a function of distance and signal to noise (SNR) ratio, which demonstrates a fundamental trade-off for system design. The 60 GHz system capacity is also compared to the capacity of ultra wideband radio system.

Keywords

AWGN channels; channel capacity; phase shift keying; radio spectrum management; ultra wideband communication; wireless channels; FCC power constraint; PSK; additive white Gaussian noise channel; channel capacity; frequency 59 GHz to 64 GHz; phase shift keying; ultra wideband radio system; unlicensed radio spectrum; wireless communication; Absorption; Additive white noise; Channel capacity; FCC; Frequency; Noise figure; Phase shift keying; Power system modeling; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; 60 GHz; Capacity; PSK; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009. CCECE '09. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

St. John´s, NL

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3509-8

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090265

Filename

5090265