D-Band Channel Measurements and Characterization for Indoor Applications

This paper presents measurements and characterization of D-band indoor channels. The measurements are performed in line-of-sight (LoS), obstructed-LoS (OLoS), and reflected non-LoS (RNLoS) environments. For OLoS sceanrio, cylindrical objects of different materials are used as an obstruction. For RNLoS, different surfaces are used as reflectors. From the large set of LoS and OLoS measured data, the parameters for single-slope path loss model with shadowing are devised. Furthermore, the analysis of multipath propagation is performed. The results show that strong multiple reflections from the transmitter and receiver electronics are present both in LoS and OLoS environments. Additionally, the results show that glass and ceramic objects in the propagation path produce surface-diffracted rays which clock-wise and counter clock-wise superposition leads to frequency-dependent path loss. Finally, the results show that the RNLoS measured path loss with aluminum plate as a reflector is very similar to free-space path loss when the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are equal.