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A Survey of Millimeter Wave (mm-Wave) Communications for 5G: Channel Measurement Below and Above 6 GHz

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As the demand for higher speed data transmissions continues to increase exponentially beyond the speed-limit of the fourth generation (4G) wireless networks due to the rapid spectrum depletion of the microwave frequency bands below 6 GHz, it has become quite evident that the existing wireless communication systems will eventually be constrained from meeting the huge throughput requirements for various emerging applications beyond 4G wireless networks. In order to sustain the future market dominance of wireless communications, the narrowness of wireless bandwidths in the existing systems, which has become a key issue for the upcoming wireless systems, needs to be addressed by looking beyond the traditional microwave spectrum domain through the exploitation of the huge bandwidths available in the millimeter wave bands. In this work, we have conducted the review for a series of measurements at various microwave bands, below 6 GHz and above, to study the behavior of ultra-wideband (UWB) channels, typically in different indoor and outdoor environments. These measurements have been used to gain a useful insight into the path loss and time dispersion parametric behaviors of the 5G channel and to investigate the channel characterization of the UWB signals within spatially restricted locations. Moreover, these measurements have been used to evaluate the newest channel model and channel prediction which have proposed for 5G.

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We would like to thank the Research Management Centre (RMC) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for funding this work under Grant Number Q.J130000.21A2.03E69. Also, the authors would like to acknowledge UTM research Grant (Vot 4J218), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

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Al-samman, A.M., Azmi, M.H., Rahman, T.A. (2019). A Survey of Millimeter Wave (mm-Wave) Communications for 5G: Channel Measurement Below and Above 6 GHz. In: Saeed, F., Gazem, N., Mohammed, F., Busalim, A. (eds) Recent Trends in Data Science and Soft Computing. IRICT 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 843. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99007-1_43

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