TY - JOUR
T1 - Channel Characteristics and User Body Effects in an Outdoor Urban Scenario at 15 and 28 GHz
AU - Zhao, Kun
AU - Gustafson, Carl
AU - Liao, Qingbi
AU - Zhang, Shuai
AU - Thomas, Bolin
AU - Ying, Zhinong
AU - He, Sailing
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - The effect of a user’s body on channel characteristics for single user downlink transmission in an urban scenario for the 5th generation (5G) systems is investigated with ray-tracing at 15 GHz and 28 GHz. Three different designs of user equipment (UE) antennas are fabricated and integrated into a mobile phone prototype, and their 3D radiation patterns are measured both with and without a user. The user remains in Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) standard data mode and talking mode during measurements. The results show that the user’s body will cause a strong shadowing loss and generate a large fluctuation on the received signal strength of the UE at both 15 GHz and 28 GHz, which is crucial to channel modeling studies at frequencies above 6 GHz. In addition, the user’s body effect on a linear array system in UE is presented, and the main challenges for the future work are also addressed.
AB - The effect of a user’s body on channel characteristics for single user downlink transmission in an urban scenario for the 5th generation (5G) systems is investigated with ray-tracing at 15 GHz and 28 GHz. Three different designs of user equipment (UE) antennas are fabricated and integrated into a mobile phone prototype, and their 3D radiation patterns are measured both with and without a user. The user remains in Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) standard data mode and talking mode during measurements. The results show that the user’s body will cause a strong shadowing loss and generate a large fluctuation on the received signal strength of the UE at both 15 GHz and 28 GHz, which is crucial to channel modeling studies at frequencies above 6 GHz. In addition, the user’s body effect on a linear array system in UE is presented, and the main challenges for the future work are also addressed.
U2 - 10.1109/TAP.2017.2740959
DO - 10.1109/TAP.2017.2740959
M3 - Journal article
VL - 65
SP - 6534
EP - 6548
JO - I E E E Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
JF - I E E E Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
SN - 0018-926X
IS - 12
ER -