The Effect of Human Blockage on the Performance of Millimeter-Wave Access Link for Outdoor Coverage

Mohamed Abouelseoud, Gregg Charlton
2013 2013 IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring)  
In this paper we study the effect of human blockage on a new cellular architecture that incorporates millimeter wave technology for the access link. Assumptions, methodology, and simulation results are discussed to analyze the effect of human blockage on this type of deployment. A statistical model for human blockage and self blockage of the millimeter wave (mmW) signal is presented and analyzed. Our simulations show that even with a simple modulation scheme, an average network throughput of
more » ... Gbps/km 2 is achieved. The objective is to propose and demonstrate that such an architecture is capable of providing high throughput services to outdoor users even in heavily crowded areas.
doi:10.1109/vtcspring.2013.6692780 dblp:conf/vtc/AbouelseoudC13 fatcat:hedvkglxyrgnlkvjr4ltjwa2xu