1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity

Research Article

Diffraction Measurements around a Building Corner at 10 GHz

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.5gu.2014.258145,
        author={Nuutti Tervo and Claudio Dias and Veikko Hovinen and Marko Sonkki and Antti Roivainen and Juha Meinil\aa{} and Matti Latva-aho},
        title={Diffraction Measurements around a Building Corner at 10 GHz},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={5GU},
        year={2014},
        month={12},
        keywords={radio channel measurements diffraction loss diffraction angle},
        doi={10.4108/icst.5gu.2014.258145}
    }
    
  • Nuutti Tervo
    Claudio Dias
    Veikko Hovinen
    Marko Sonkki
    Antti Roivainen
    Juha Meinilä
    Matti Latva-aho
    Year: 2014
    Diffraction Measurements around a Building Corner at 10 GHz
    5GU
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.5gu.2014.258145
Nuutti Tervo1,*, Claudio Dias1, Veikko Hovinen1, Marko Sonkki1, Antti Roivainen1, Juha Meinilä1, Matti Latva-aho1
  • 1: University of Oulu
*Contact email: nutervo@ee.oulu.fi

Abstract

This paper presents the results and analysis of diffraction measurements around a building corner at 10 GHz. Radio channel measurement setup contains a 4-port vector network analyzer and two virtual antenna arrays. Angle of arrival analysis is carried out to distinguish the diffracted path from the other multipath components in the impulse response. Results are analyzed with respect to the Fresnel diffraction parameter and diffraction angle, and compared with the knife edge diffraction (KED) and absorbing screen diffraction losses, respectively. The absorbing screen approach is concluded to give reasonable fit for the measurements in the shadow region, but a poor fit near to the shadow boundary and in the illuminated region. The analysis of the corner diffraction shows that a building corner can be modeled by the KED-theory at 10 GHz.