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Long-Span Quasi-Millimeter-Wave-Band Fixed Wireless Access System Employing Link Adaptation by Symbol Rate
Mitsutoshi MATSUDA Kazuji WATANABE Hirofumi ICHIKAWA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E87-B
No.1
pp.117-123 Publication Date: 2004/01/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications Keyword: quasi-millimeter-wave-band, FWA, rain attenuation, symbol rate, link adaptation,
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Summary:
Quasi-millimeter-wave-band Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) systems have higher transmission rates than 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz systems, because the available frequency bandwidth for quasi-millimeter-wave-bands is broader than the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands. However, quasi-millimeter-wave-band systems are unsuitable for long-span transmission because the attenuation caused by rain is large. We propose that the symbol rate be lowered for rainfall; i.e., when it rains, a low symbol rate is used. This means narrowing the equivalent noise bandwidth so that a margin for rain attenuation is obtained. We compared a method in which the symbol rate is either high or low with one in which the symbol rate is selectable over a range of values. We verified the beneficial effect of the two-rate method through calculations and simulations. A case study in the Tokyo metropolitan area showed that the service zone radius of this method is double that of conventional systems. Changing to a low symbol rate decreases the transmission rate, but periods of heavy rainfall comprise only about 1% of the amount of time in a year, and so the average decrease in the transmission rate is approximately zero.
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