Experimental validation of adverse weather effects on a 240 GHz multi-gigabit wireless link

Author

Boes, F. ; Antes, J. ; Mahler, Tobias ; Lewark, U. ; Meier, Daniel ; Messinger, T. ; Henneberger, R. ; Tessmann, A. ; Zwick, T. ; Kallfass, I.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Robust Power Semicond. Syst., Univ. of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

1-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The influence of hydrometeors on a MMIC-based wireless data transmission at 240GHz carrier frequency was experimentally evaluated in a climatic wind tunnel over a distance of 90 m. Successful transmissions of up to 24 Gbit/s QPSK modulated signals through heavy rain at 43 mm/h and dense fog at 3 g/m³ is achieved. The climatic impact is evaluated in terms of EVM. Reducing the bandwidth makes a transmission still possible with a BER <; 1 × 10^-3 under conditions, where a free space optical link would fail.

Keywords

data communication; error statistics; millimetre wave integrated circuits; monolithic integrated circuits; optical links; quadrature phase shift keying; wind tunnels; BER; EVM; MMIC based wireless data transmission; QPSK modulated signal; adverse weather effects; bandwidth reduction; bit error ratio; bit rate 24 Gbit/s; climatic wind tunnel; error vector magnitude; free space optical link; frequency 240 GHz; hydrometeors; millimeter wave monolithic integrated circuit; multigigabit wireless link; Bit error rate; Rain; data transmission; hydrometeors; millimeter-wave communication; millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC); weather influences; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848416

Filename

6848416