EAGER: Millimeter Wave Channel Measurements and Modeling for 5G Wireless Communications

EAGER：5G 无线通信的毫米波信道测量和建模

• 批准号: 1555332
• 负责人: Theodore Rappaport
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555332&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Millimeter; Wave; Channel; Measurements

Today's mobile communications technology will soon become obsolete in the face of increasing demand for broadband data and wireless access. Since the advent of cellular and WiFi wireless technologies, wireless communications have used relatively narrowband radio channels, with relatively low ultra-high frequencies (UHF), and unsophisticated antennas. This project offers to provide fundamental knowledge about the radio channels in a much higher frequency range, where orders of magnitude more data capacity could be delivered to cellphones of the future.The tremendous pending demand for wireless capacity is causing regulators around the world to consider opening up new mobile spectrum in the millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands. To date, little is known about the small-scale behavior of mm-Wave radio channels, yet academia and industry require small-scale channel models to create new wireless system architectures and air interface standards that will use directional antennas for the first time. In this project, comprehensive 28 GHz small-scale propagation measurements in an urban setting (Brooklyn, NY) shall uncover key small scale multipath and signal properties that are currently not known or understood. The data will allow for the development of analytical and statistical channel models that are based on directional antennas. Such measurements and models are critical for the proper engineering analysis and design of future mm-wave physical layer and link layer protocols by both academia and industry, and the knowledge from this project could also lead to simulation and emulation products for fifth generation (5G) wireless product development.

面对日益增长的宽带数据和无线接入需求，当今的移动的通信技术很快就会过时。自从蜂窝和WiFi无线技术出现以来，无线通信已经使用相对窄带的无线电信道，具有相对低的超高频（UHF）和简单的天线。该项目提供了有关更高频率范围内无线电信道的基本知识，在该频率范围内，可以向未来的手机提供数量级更大的数据容量。对无线容量的巨大需求正在促使世界各地的监管机构考虑在毫米波（mm-wave）频带中开辟新的移动的频谱。迄今为止，人们对毫米波无线电信道的小规模行为知之甚少，但学术界和工业界需要小规模信道模型来创建首次使用定向天线的新无线系统架构和空中接口标准。在这个项目中，全面的28 GHz小规模传播测量在城市环境（布鲁克林，纽约州）将揭示关键的小规模多径和信号特性，目前还不知道或理解。这些数据将允许开发基于定向天线的分析和统计信道模型。这些测量和模型对于学术界和工业界未来毫米波物理层和链路层协议的正确工程分析和设计至关重要，并且该项目的知识也可能导致第五代（5G）无线产品开发的模拟和仿真产品。