Publication detail

Better than Rician: modelling millimetre wave channels as two-wave with diffuse power

ZÖCHMANN, E. CABAN, S. MECKLENBRÄUKER, C. PRATSCHNER, S. LERCH, M. SCHWARZ, S. RUPP, M.

Original Title

Better than Rician: modelling millimetre wave channels as two-wave with diffuse power

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

This contribution provides experimental evidence for the two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading model. Wehave conducted two indoor millimetre wave measurement campaigns with directive horn antennas at both link ends.One horn antenna is mounted in a corner of our laboratory, while the other is steerable and scans azimuth andelevation. Our first measurement campaign is based on scalar network analysis with 7 GHz of bandwidth. Our secondmeasurement campaign obtains magnitude and phase information; it is additionally sampled directionally at severalpositions in space. We apply Akaike’s information criterion to decide whether Rician fading sufficiently explains thedata or the generalised TWDP fading model is necessary. Our results indicate that the TWDP fading hypothesis isfavoured over Rician fading in situations where the steerable antenna is pointing towards reflecting objects or isslightly misaligned at line-of-sight. We demonstrate TWDP fading in several different domains, namely, frequency,space, and time.

Keywords

Millimetre wave, 60 GHz, Measurements, Fading, Hypothesis testing, Rician fading, TWDP fading

Authors

ZÖCHMANN, E.; CABAN, S.; MECKLENBRÄUKER, C.; PRATSCHNER, S.; LERCH, M.; SCHWARZ, S.; RUPP, M.

Released

24. 1. 2019

ISBN

1687-1472

Periodical

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Year of study

2019

Number

21

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

1

Pages to

17

Pages count

17

URL

BibTex

@article{BUT162249,
  author="Erich {Zöchmann} and Sebastian {Caban} and Christoph {Mecklenbräuker} and Stefan {Pratschner} and Martin {Lerch} and Stefan {Schwarz} and Markus {Rupp}",
  title="Better than Rician: modelling millimetre wave channels as two-wave with diffuse power",
  journal="EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking",
  year="2019",
  volume="2019",
  number="21",
  pages="1--17",
  doi="10.1186/s13638-018-1336-6",
  issn="1687-1472",
  url="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13638-018-1336-6#Ack1"
}