TY - GEN
T1 - Indoor office wideband penetration loss measurements at 73 GHz
AU - Ryan, Jacqueline
AU - Maccartney, George R.
AU - Rappaport, Theodore S.
PY - 2017/6/29
Y1 - 2017/6/29
N2 - This paper presents millimeter wave (mmWave) penetration loss measurements and analysis at 73 GHz using a wideband sliding correlator channel sounder in an indoor office environment. Penetration loss was measured using a carefully controlled measurement setup for many common indoor building materials such as glass doors, glass windows, closet doors, steel doors, and whiteboard writing walls. Measurements were conducted using narrowbeam transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) horn antennas that were boresight-aligned with a test material between the antennas. Overall, 21 different locations were measured for 6 different materials such that the same type of material was tested in at least two locations in order to characterize the effect of penetration loss for materials with similar composition. As shown here, attenuation through common materials ranged between 0.8 dB/cm and 9.9 dB/cm for co-polarized antennas, while cross-polarized antennas exhibited similar attenuation for most materials, but up to 23.4 dB/cm of attenuation for others. The penetration loss results presented here are useful for site-specific planning tools that will model indoor mmWave networks, without the need for expensive measurement campaigns.
AB - This paper presents millimeter wave (mmWave) penetration loss measurements and analysis at 73 GHz using a wideband sliding correlator channel sounder in an indoor office environment. Penetration loss was measured using a carefully controlled measurement setup for many common indoor building materials such as glass doors, glass windows, closet doors, steel doors, and whiteboard writing walls. Measurements were conducted using narrowbeam transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) horn antennas that were boresight-aligned with a test material between the antennas. Overall, 21 different locations were measured for 6 different materials such that the same type of material was tested in at least two locations in order to characterize the effect of penetration loss for materials with similar composition. As shown here, attenuation through common materials ranged between 0.8 dB/cm and 9.9 dB/cm for co-polarized antennas, while cross-polarized antennas exhibited similar attenuation for most materials, but up to 23.4 dB/cm of attenuation for others. The penetration loss results presented here are useful for site-specific planning tools that will model indoor mmWave networks, without the need for expensive measurement campaigns.
KW - 5G
KW - 73 GHz
KW - Indoor propagation
KW - Millimeter wave
KW - MmWave
KW - Penetration loss
KW - Polarization
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962662
DO - 10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962662
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85026205381
T3 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2017
SP - 228
EP - 233
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2017
A2 - Papadias, Constantinos B.
A2 - Jamalipour, Abbas
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2017
Y2 - 21 May 2017 through 25 May 2017
ER -