IEEE Access (Jan 2017)

Experimental Study of MIMO-OFDM Transmissions at 94 GHz in Indoor Environments

  • Concepcion Sanchis-Borras,
  • Maria-Teresa Martinez-Ingles,
  • Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo,
  • Juan Pascual Garcia,
  • Jose-Victor Rodriguez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2691402
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5
pp. 7488 – 7494

Abstract

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Millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequencies have been proposed to achieve high capacity in 5G communications. Although meaningful research on the channel characteristics has been performed in the 28-, 38-, and 60-GHz bands in both indoor and short-range scenarios, only a small number of trials (experiments) have been carried out in other mm-wave bands. The objective of this paper is to study the viability and evaluate the performance of the 94-GHz frequency band for MIMO-OFDM transmission in an indoor environment. Starting from a measurement campaign, the performance of MIMO algorithms is studied in terms of throughput for four different antenna configurations.

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