Fading Evaluation in Standardized 5G Millimeter-Wave Band

[EN] Recent standardization of portions of the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band for fifth-generation (5G) operation has called for further research on how short-term fading behaves in that unexplored part of the spectrum. With such a target, this paper reports on a thorough measurement campaign conduc...

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Authors: Rufino-Marins, Tiago Reis, dos Anjos, André Antônio, Nogueira da Silva, Carlos Rafael, Amaral de Souza, Rausley Adriano, Yacoub, Michel Daoud, Rodrigo Peñarrocha, Vicent Miquel|||0000-0002-8075-4851, Rubio Arjona, Lorenzo|||0000-0003-3882-4673, Reig, Juan|||0000-0003-4541-9326
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/183660
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/183660
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Fading model
Wireless channel
5G-NR
Multipath fading
Mm-wave
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Summary:[EN] Recent standardization of portions of the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band for fifth-generation (5G) operation has called for further research on how short-term fading behaves in that unexplored part of the spectrum. With such a target, this paper reports on a thorough measurement campaign conducted in an indoor environment characterized by rich-multipath scattering, a part of a modern building, with floor and ceiling constructed of reinforced concrete over steel plates with wood and plasterboard-paneled walls. Particularly, measurements have been performed in a variety of scenarios, under line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-ofsight (nLoS) conditions, for a wide range of frequencies, namely from 25 to 40 GHz - a span of 15 GHz - therefore, including 26, 28 and 39 GHz. First and second order statistics of representative fading models, namely Rayleigh, Rice, Nakagami, folded normal, alpha-mu, eta-mu, kappa-mu and alpha-eta-kappa-mu have been investigated. The metrics used in the analysis were the normalized mean square error (NMSE), the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS), and the Akaike information criterion (AIC). Additionally, the study of the kappa-mu. model is advanced, in which new, exact, simple closed-form expressions for probability density function, cumulative distribution function, and level crossing rate are derived for some particular cases, namely for mu = n + 1/2 in which n is an element of N.