Small‐scale distributions in an indoor environment at 94 GHz

In this paper, an extensive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) measurement campaign in a lab environment has been conducted at the 94 GHz band. Using a vector network analyzer (VNA), up-down converters and omnidirectional antennas displaced in virtual arrays, we have obtained an estimation of the distribution parameters for the most usual distributions employed in the small-scale fading modeling, i.e., Rayleigh, Rice, Nakagami-m and α-μ, by using statistical inference techniques. Moreover, in this scenario the best fit distribution to the experimental data is the Weibull distribution, using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. However, the α-μ distribution provides

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