Polarimetric Mm-wave channel measurement and characterization in a small office

This paper presents a wideband full polari-metric directional channel measurement results at 58.5 GHz in a small office room environment assuming an indoor access-point (AP) scenario in the next generation mobile systems. The delay resolution was 2.5 ns from the signal bandwidth of 400 MHz, and the double directional angular characteristics were achieved by rotating high gain horn antennas at both sides of transmitter and receiver. By identifying scattering objects from the measurement data analysis, some important observation about the channel properties were reported. The results reveal that there were a few number of dominant specular multipath components of which the relative power to that of the direct path ranged between -8 and -13 dB. It was also observed that the depolarization is not significant in most of the detected paths with cross-polarization ratio of larger than 14 dB.