Millimeter-wave cellular wireless networks: Potentials and challenges

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 366-385

  Rangan, Sundeep ^a   Rappaport, Theodore S ^a   Erkip, Elza ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

28 GHz; 3GPP LTE; 73 GHz; Cellular systems; channel models; millimeter wave radio; urban deployments; wireless propagation

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; BEAMFORMING; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

28 GHZ; 3GPP LTE; 73 GHZ; CELLULAR SYSTEM; CHANNEL MODEL; MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIO; URBAN DEPLOYMENTS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 84897656084     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2299397     Document Type: Article

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