TY - GEN
T1 - A 38 GHz cellular outage study for an urban outdoor campus environment
AU - Murdock, James N.
AU - Ben-Dor, Eshar
AU - Qiao, Yijun
AU - Tamir, Jonathan I.
AU - Rappaport, Theodore S.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Wireless systems require increasingly large system bandwidths that are only available at millimeter-wave frequencies. Such spectrum bands offer the potential for multi-gigabit-per-second data rates to low-cost massively broadband® devices. To enable mobile outdoor millimeter-wave cellular-type applications, it is necessary to determine the coverage potential of base stations in real-world environments. This paper presents the results of a measurement campaign of 38 GHz outdoor urban cellular channels using directional antennas at both the mobile and the base station, and assesses outage probabilities at two separate transmitter locations on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Our measurements demonstrate the viability of directional antennas and site-specific planning for future mm-wave cellular, and show that cell radii of ∼ 200 M will provide a very high probability of coverage in an urban environment. As production costs for millimeter-wave technologies continue to fall [1], we envision millimeter-wave cellular systems with dense base station deployments as a cost effective means of delivering multi-Gbps data rates to mobile cell phone and internet users.
AB - Wireless systems require increasingly large system bandwidths that are only available at millimeter-wave frequencies. Such spectrum bands offer the potential for multi-gigabit-per-second data rates to low-cost massively broadband® devices. To enable mobile outdoor millimeter-wave cellular-type applications, it is necessary to determine the coverage potential of base stations in real-world environments. This paper presents the results of a measurement campaign of 38 GHz outdoor urban cellular channels using directional antennas at both the mobile and the base station, and assesses outage probabilities at two separate transmitter locations on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Our measurements demonstrate the viability of directional antennas and site-specific planning for future mm-wave cellular, and show that cell radii of ∼ 200 M will provide a very high probability of coverage in an urban environment. As production costs for millimeter-wave technologies continue to fall [1], we envision millimeter-wave cellular systems with dense base station deployments as a cost effective means of delivering multi-Gbps data rates to mobile cell phone and internet users.
KW - Millimeter Wave Communications
KW - RF propagation measurements
KW - channel sounding
KW - site-specific
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U2 - 10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214335
DO - 10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214335
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864369295
SN - 9781467304375
T3 - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
SP - 3085
EP - 3090
BT - 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012
Y2 - 1 April 2012 through 4 April 2012
ER -