Wideband millimeter-wave propagation measurements and channel models for future wireless communication system design

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3029-3056

  Rappaport, Theodore S ^a   MacCartney, George R ^a   Samimi, Mathew K ^a   Sun, Shu ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

28 GHz; 38 GHz; 5G; 60 GHz; 73 GHz; channel sounder; Millimeter wave; MIMO; multipath; path loss; propagation measurements; RMS delay spread; small cell; SSCM; statistical spatial channel models

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANTENNAS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); HORN ANTENNAS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; STEERABLE ANTENNAS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

28 GHZ; 38 GHZ; 5G; 60 GHZ; 73 GHZ; CHANNEL SOUNDERS; MULTIPATH; PATH LOSS; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; RMS DELAY SPREAD; SMALL CELLS; SPATIAL CHANNEL MODELS; SSCM;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 85028221380     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2434384     Document Type: Article

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