mmWave Channel Sounding for Vehicular Communications

This paper provides initial findings from a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure radio channel measurement campaign. The channel sounder used is the IMT Atlantique SIMO (Single Input Multiple Output) SDR (Software Defined Radio), operating at a frequency of 60 GHz with a bandwidth of 180 MHz. The transmitter (Tx) is mounted on the roof of a moving car, and the receiver (Rx) is positioned like a traffic sign. The measurement scenario is a street with vehicles parked on both sides of the road. For each scenario, the paper presents measurements of the Channel Transfer Function (CTF) gain, the Power Delay Profile (PDP), and the Doppler spread average function.