Overview of Millimeter Wave Communications for Fifth-Generation (5G) Wireless Networks-With a Focus on Propagation Models

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 6213-6230

  Rappaport, Theodore S ^a   Xing, Yunchou ^a   MacCartney, George R ^a   Molisch, Andreas F ^b   Mellios, Evangelos ^c   Zhang, Jianhua ^d  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Cellular network; channel model standards; channel modeling; fifth generation (5G); millimeter wave (mmWave); path loss; propagation

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CELLULAR NETWORK; CHANNEL MODEL; MM-WAVE; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PATH LOSS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS FIDELITIES;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 85028451584     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2734243     Document Type: Review

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