Channel characteristics study for future indoor millimeter and submillimeter wireless communications

This paper presents a preliminary study of channel characteristics in the frequency ranges of 75-110 GHz and 270-320 GHz. We select a small office as a typical application scenario and carried out extensive measurements with the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) and frequency extension units in the room. A ray tracing simulator is applied for reproduction of the measurement results and a good match in spatial distribution of propagation paths between measurement and simulation is achieved.

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