Power Azimuth Spectrum Measurements in Home and Office Environments at 62.4 GHz

Author

Sarris, Ioannis ; Nix, Andrew R.

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electr. ITE B.V., Guildford

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The high demand for unlicensed spectrum mandates the use of higher frequencies, such as the 60 GHz band, where large amounts unlicensed bandwidth exists. In this paper, the results from Power Azimuth Spectrum (PAS) measurements in a home and an office environment are presented with a view of revealing the amount of scattering power at that frequency and its relative power to the Line-of-Sight (LoS) signal. Moreover, a tractable scheme is proposed for the estimation of the Power Azimuth Spectrum from absolute power measurement data which produces a very close fit with the measured PAS. A discussion is made on the accuracy of this method which is dependent on the directionality of the antenna elements, the fading in the channel and the presence of noise.

Keywords

antennas; fading channels; power measurement; antenna element directionality; channel fading; frequency 60 GHz; frequency 62.4 GHz; line-of-sight signal; power azimuth spectrum estimation; power azimuth spectrum measurement; power measurement data; unlicensed spectrum; Antenna measurements; Azimuth; Bandwidth; Electric variables measurement; Frequency measurement; MIMO; Noise reduction; Phase locked loops; Power measurement; Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394455

Filename

4394455