Millimeter-wave base station for mobile broadband communication

In this paper a millimeter-wave base station operating at 28GHz for mobile communication is introduced. This base station employs 64-elements antenna phased-array to enable adaptive beamforming required for mobile communication. The phased-array is constructed of sub-arrays for optimal trade-off bet...

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Published in2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium pp. 1 - 3
Main Authors Aryanfar, Farshid, Pi, Jerry, Hongyu Zhou, Henige, Thomas, Xu, Gary, Abu-Surra, Shadi, Psychoudakis, Dimitris, Khan, Farooq
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2015
Subjects
28 GHz radio
Antenna arrays
Arrays
FCC
Indexes
Millimeter-wave
Mobile Broadband
Mobile communication
OFDM
Phased-array
Radio spectrum management
Wireless Communication
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Summary:In this paper a millimeter-wave base station operating at 28GHz for mobile communication is introduced. This base station employs 64-elements antenna phased-array to enable adaptive beamforming required for mobile communication. The phased-array is constructed of sub-arrays for optimal trade-off between performance and required coverage and beamforming capability. The phased array antenna is integrated with the transceivers on the same printed circuit board (PCB) using industry standard manufacturing process to minimize the cost and routing loss. The achieved link budget fulfills the requirements of the LOS and NLOS mobile communication in this band for distances in excess of 1Km. The field measurements depict an end-to-end EVM of better than -24dB for a 16QAM OFDM signal with 500MHz bandwidth (BW).
ISSN:0149-645X
2576-7216
DOI:10.1109/MWSYM.2015.7166778