On Communication and Interference Range of Multi-Gbps Millimeter-Wave WPAN System

Chin-Sean SUM  Zhou LAN  Junyi WANG  Hiroshi HARADA  Shuzo KATO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E93-A   No.12   pp.2700-2703
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E93.A.2700
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Wideband Systems)
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Keyword: 
interference range,  communication range,  millimeter-wave,  multi-gigabit,  WPAN,  

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Summary: 
This paper investigates the communication range and interference range of millimeter-wave wireless personal area networks (WPAN) based on realistic system design. Firstly, the effective communication range of the millimeter-wave networks are calculated based on realistic physical (PHY) layer design and 60 GHz channel obtained from actual measurements. Secondly, an interference model is developed to facilitate the analysis of the impact of interferer-to-victim range on the victim link performance. It is found that system with BPSK modulation is able to support use cases with higher number of portable devices within a 3 m range, while system with 16QAM modulation is more suitable for fixed high speed data streaming devices within a shorter range of 1 m. Also, the interferer-to-victim range that causes no interference in all conditions is found to be approximately 40 m, while a 25 m range causes a typical bit error rate (BER) degradation of 1-digit (e.g. BER = 10-6 to 10-5).