Mobile Communications Handbook, 3rd Edition

39

60 GHz Wireless Communication

 

     Upamanyu Madhow and Sumit Singh

39.1 Potential Applications

39.2 The Role of Directionality

Link Budgets

System Design Consequences

39.3 Diversity and Multiplexing

39.4 Signal Processing Challenges

39.5 Blockage, Deafness, and Interference

39.6 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

 

In contrast to the scarcity of bandwidth typical at lower frequencies, large swathes of unlicensed spectrum are available worldwide in the 60 GHz band (including 7 GHz of spectrum from 57–64 GHz in the United States). Such “millimeter (mm) wave” frequencies have been used in cost-insensitive applications such as military radar and communication systems for decades, using expensively packaged radio frequency-integrated circuits ...