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Indoor and Outdoor Penetration Loss Measurements at 73 and 81 GHz
2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • Mahfuza Khatun, Boise State University
  • Changyu Guo, Boise State University
  • David Matolak, University of South Carolina
  • Hani Mehrpouyan, Boise State University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract

In this paper, we present millimeter-wave (mmWave) penetration loss measurements and analysis at E-bands—73 GHz and 81 GHz. Penetration loss was measured for common building materials such as clear glass, metal, tinted glass, wood, and drywall on the campus of Boise State University in the city of Boise. A horn antenna with a gain of 24 dBi was used at the transmitter and receiver at both bands, and both antennas were boresight-aligned with respect to the test material. A total of twelve locations were selected to test five materials. We tested two indoor materials (clear glass and wood) in at least two locations to determine the effect of penetration loss of materials in similar compositions. The average penetration loss and standard deviation were estimated for these indoor materials. We measured an average penetration loss of 2 to 9 dB for wood and glass, respectively. Furthermore, we measured the penetration loss of common indoor and outdoor building materials. We studied that outdoor materials had larger penetration losses, e.g., we obtained a penetration loss of 22.69 dB for outdoor metal, where this value dropped to 16.04 dB for indoor metal at 73 GHz. Similar results were also obtained for the 81 GHz channel, where the largest penetration loss was measured to be 26.5 dB through a tinted glass door in an outdoor setting.

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Citation Information
Mahfuza Khatun, Changyu Guo, David Matolak and Hani Mehrpouyan. "Indoor and Outdoor Penetration Loss Measurements at 73 and 81 GHz" 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hani_mehrpouyan/96/