Title :
Radio channel sounders for modeling mobile communications at 28 GHz, 60 GHz and 83 GHz
Author :
Papazian, Peter B. ; Remley, Kate A. ; Gentile, Camillo ; Golmie, Nada
Author_Institution :
RF Technol. Div., NIST, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
NIST has developed a new channel sounder design specifically to support radio-channel model development for 5G millimeter-wave mobile communications. Design elements include 40 GB/s real-time sampling; an electronically switched, high-gain, directional receive antenna array covering the upper hemisphere; and automated mobile operations. These features allow measurement of calibrated received signal strength and the spatio-temporal channel response for both indoor and outdoor environments under mobile conditions. An 83 GHz system is described in this paper while 28 GHz and 60 GHz systems, in process, have similar capabilities. To our knowledge, this work contributes the first channel sounder which is capable of broadband, 3D, mobile measurements at millimeter-wave frequencies.
Keywords :
5G mobile communication; RSSI; directive antennas; indoor environment; microwave antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; receiving antennas; wireless channels; 5G millimeter-wave mobile communications; NIST; automated mobile operations; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; calibrated received signal strength; directional receive antenna array; electronically switched antenna array; frequency 28 GHz; frequency 60 GHz; frequency 83 GHz; high-gain antenna array; indoor environments; outdoor environments; radio channel sounders; real-time sampling; spatiotemporal channel response; upper hemisphere; 5G mobile communication; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Receiving antennas; Wireless communication; 5G wireless communications; channel sounder; millimeter-wave communication; propagation channel; radio channel; wireless system;
Conference_Titel :
Millimeter Waves (GSMM), 2015 Global Symposium On
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
DOI :
10.1109/GSMM.2015.7175448
