Cell-site diversity performance of millimeter-wave fixed cellular systems operating at frequencies above 20 GHz

Author

Panagopoulos, Athanasios D. ; Kanellopoulos, John D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Zografou, Greece

Volume

1

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

185

Abstract

The dominant propagation factor affecting the reliability of millimeter-wave fixed cellular systems operating at frequencies above 20 GHz is rain attenuation. Cell-site diversity is an available method to reduce the rain outage time for these systems. The paper presents an analytical procedure for the evaluation of the outage performance of a cell-site diversity system. Numerical results are compared with available experimental data taken from Canada and the UK. The agreement was found to be quite encouraging. The dependence of cell-site diversity gain on climatic conditions is also investigated and some useful conclusions are deduced.

Keywords

broadband networks; cellular radio; diversity reception; electromagnetic wave absorption; electromagnetic wave scattering; millimetre wave propagation; radio access networks; rain; statistical analysis; Canada; UK; cell-site diversity gain; millimeter-wave fixed cellular systems; rain attenuation; rain outage time; statistical propagation model; Attenuation; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Frequency diversity; Millimeter wave propagation; Millimeter wave technology; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Rain; Wireless cellular systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2002.807785

Filename

1177191