Outdoor Millimeter-Wave Propagation Simulation Model for 5G Band Frequencies

Abstract

Design and implementation of wireless local area network for the specific region with fifth-generation (5G) networks is one possibility to reach high speed, low power, and low latency. 5G technology is expected to officially launch across the world in the near future. As a contribution, the propagation of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) at different frequencies including 28, 39, 60 and 73 GHz has been studied in this paper. Wireless InSite program has been used to form a deterministic model for outdoor propagation in a specific campus according to the real geometric dimensions. The appropriate location has been identified for the transmitter that has a directional antenna. The surround receivers have been divided and distributed into two groups; the first located in a place without any barriers between them and the transmitter called LOS (Line-of-Sight). In contrast, the second group of the receivers is located in front of barriers that causing multiple reflections which called NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight). In this paper, simulation of wave propagation has been modeled with including the essential parameters of waves such as path loss, delay spread and received power. Overall, the obtained results show that LOS has a high receiving capacity and fewer path losses than NLOS. In addition to that, we find that high frequencies like 73 GHz have greater effects than low frequencies on the propagation of the waves.