Abstract

Achieving adequate coverage with high gain antennas is key to realizing the full promise of the wide bandwidth available at centimeter/millimeter bands. We report extensive outdoor measurements at 28 GHz in suburban residential areas in New Jersey and Chile, with over 2000 links measured for the same-street link types [vegetation blocked line of sight (LOS)] from 13 streets and other-street link types [true non-LOS (NLOS)] from 7 streets, using a specialized narrowband channel sounder at ranges reaching 200 m. The measurements, applicable to fixed wireless access, involved a 55 transmit antenna placed on the exterior of a street-facing window and a 10 receive horn antenna spinning on top of a van mast at 3 m height, emulating a lamppost-mounted base station (BS). The measured path gain-distance dependence is well represented by power-law models, and azimuth gains at the base are degraded through scattering by more than 4.3 dB for 10 of links. It was found that, with 51 dBm effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) at the BS and 11 dBi antenna at an outdoor- mounted terminal, 1 Gb/s downlink rate can be delivered up to 100 m from a BS deployed in the same street with 90 coverage guarantee.