Planning local access millimeter wave systems

Author

Mehler, M.J.

Author_Institution

British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK

fYear

1991

fDate

23-26 Jun 1991

Firstpage

1191

Abstract

A modeling technique is proposed for determining the diffraction loss between a transmitter and receiver when the intervening terrain consists of smooth hills and urban detail. This modeling approach has been applied to determine the frequency reuse distance and frequency assignment plan for an 80 km×80 km region of the UK, targeted for the deployment of a point-to-multipoint, millimeter-wave, video distribution network. It is demonstrated that, at millimeter-wave frequencies, failure to take account of the effects of urban detail can lead to an overestimate of the reuse distance by a factor in excess of 4

Keywords

electromagnetic wave diffraction; frequency allocation; microwave links; radiowave propagation; subscriber loops; television networks; UK; diffraction loss; frequency assignment plan; frequency reuse distance; intervening terrain; local access; microwave links; millimeter-wave frequencies; point-to-multipoint distribution; smooth hills; urban detail; video distribution network; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Diffraction; Frequency; Joining processes; Millimeter wave technology; Power system planning; Rain; Telecommunications; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1991. ICC '91, Conference Record. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0006-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1991.162541

Filename

162541