| |
| In recent years, the design of millimeter-wave wireless communication system has become a hotspot of academic and industrial research, for its broad and license-free spectrum. As the most of 60GHz wireless local area networking (WLAN) systems are deployed in the indoor environment, we investigate the coverage performance of the 60GHz WLAN system in a typical outdoor environment, and evaluate the feasibility of outdoor deployment of 60GHz system in this paper. First, an outdoor 60GHz WLAN system model based on IEEE 802.11ad is proposed. Then, the channel characteristics and antenna array gain at 60GHz are discussed and some comparisons are made with 2GHz. Furthermore, a typical crossroad scenario is simulated by a 3-dimensional ray tracing simulator in both 60GHz and 2GHz. The results of simulation show that, with the help of beamforming, the poor link budget of 60GHz system can be much enhanced. Finally, some conclusions of the 60GHz outdoor wireless system are given. |
|
| Keywords:60GHz; outdoor; coverage; ray tracing; beamforming |
|
