Real-time Millimeter Wave Omnidirectional Channel Sounder Using Phased Array Antennas

Aditya Chopra, Andrew Thornburg, Ojas Kanhere, Abbas Termos, Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh, Theodore S. Rappaport

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Abstract

Characterization of the millimeter wave wireless channel is needed to facilitate fully connected vehicular communication in the future. To study the multipath-rich, rapidly varying nature of the vehicular propagation environment, fast millimeter wave channel sounders are required. We present a channel sounder design capable of covering 360 degrees in azimuth and 60 degrees in elevation with 200 individual beam directions in 6.25 ms by using four phased arrays simultaneously. The channel measurements are accompanied by high resolution positioning and video data, allowing channel sounding to be conducted while either the transmitter, or the receiver, or both are moving. Channel sounding campaigns were conducted at multiple urban locations with light traffic conditions in Austin, Texas. Preliminary results show that beam selection at the receiver can lower the effective pathloss exponent to 1.6 for line-of-sight and 2.25 for non line-of-sight.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number9322491
JournalProceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020 - Virtual, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: Dec 7 2020Dec 11 2020

Keywords

  • 5G
  • channel sounding
  • mmWave
  • phased arrays
  • sidelink
  • V2V
  • V2X

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing

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