Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications: New Results for Rural Connectivity

This paper shows the remarkable distances that can be achieved using millimeter wave communications, and presents a new rural macrocell (RMa) path loss model for millimeter wave frequencies, based on measurements at 73 GHz in rural Virginia. Path loss models are needed to estimate signal coverage an...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2016-08
Main Authors: MacCartney, George R, Sun, Shu, Rappaport, Theodore S, Xing, Yunchou, Hangsong Yan, Koka, Jeton, Wang, Ruichen, Yu, Dian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Millimeter waves
Model accuracy
Wave propagation
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
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Summary:This paper shows the remarkable distances that can be achieved using millimeter wave communications, and presents a new rural macrocell (RMa) path loss model for millimeter wave frequencies, based on measurements at 73 GHz in rural Virginia. Path loss models are needed to estimate signal coverage and interference for wireless network design, yet little is known about rural propagation at millimeter waves. This work identifies problems with the RMa model used by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) TR 38.900 Release 14, and offers a close-in (CI) reference distance model that has improved accuracy, fewer parameters, and better stability as compared with the existing 3GPP RMa path loss model. The measurements and models presented here are the first to validate rural millimeter wave path loss models.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1608.05384