Millimeter-wave channel measurements with space diversity for indoor wireless communications

Author

Kalivas, Grigorios A. ; El-Tanany, M. ; Mahmoud, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

44

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

505

Abstract

Indoor wireless communication systems experience deep multipath fading due to the presence of people, antenna movement, and other environmental factors. The objective of this paper is to present results concerning envelope fading and large-scale attenuation properties of the signal based on narrowband measurements carried out at 21.6 and 37.2 GHz with and without antenna diversity. By using various transmitter-receiver arrangements in measurements which were taken over one floor of a university building, envelope statistics of received signal are produced with and without antenna diversity. It is shown that the statistical distributions follow the Rayleigh curve and hence a diversity gain close to 10 dB can be obtained for an availability of 99%. Power law exponents and wall loss factors are also calculated to assist in the design of future indoor radio systems in the millimeter frequency range

Keywords

diversity reception; fading; indoor radio; millimetre wave propagation; multipath channels; probability; 10 dB; 21.6 GHz; 37.2 GHz; Rayleigh curve; antenna diversity; antenna movement; design; diversity gain; envelope fading; envelope statistics; environmental factors; indoor wireless communications; large-scale attenuation properties; millimeter-wave channel measurements; multipath fading; narrowband measurements; people; power law exponents; space diversity; statistical distributions; transmitter-receiver arrangements; wall loss factors; Antenna measurements; Attenuation; Environmental factors; Extraterrestrial measurements; Fading; Large-scale systems; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave measurements; Statistical distributions; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.406612

Filename

406612