TY - GEN
T1 - Propagation Measurements and Analyses at 28 GHz via an Autonomous Beam-Steering Platform
AU - Keshavamurthy, Bharath
AU - Zhang, Yaguang
AU - Anderson, Christopher R.
AU - Michelusi, Nicolò
AU - Love, David J.
AU - Krogmeier, James V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper details the design of an autonomous alignment and tracking platform to mechanically steer directional horn antennas in a sliding correlator channel sounder setup for 28 GHz V2X propagation modeling. A pan-and-tilt subsystem facilitates uninhibited rotational mobility along the yaw and pitch axes, driven by open-loop servo units and orchestrated via inertial motion controllers. A geo-positioning subsystem augmented in accuracy by real-time kinematics enables navigation events to be shared between a transmitter and receiver over an Apache Kafka messaging middleware framework with fault tolerance. Herein, our system demonstrates a 3D geo-positioning accuracy of 17 cm, an average principal axes positioning accuracy of 1.1°, and an average tracking response time of 27.8 ms. Crucially, fully autonomous antenna alignment and tracking facilitates continuous series of measurements, a unique yet critical necessity for millimeter wave channel modeling in vehicular networks. The power-delay profiles, collected along routes spanning urban and suburban neighborhoods on the NSF POWDER testbed, are used in pathloss evaluations involving the 3GPP TR38.901 and ITU-R M.2135 standards. Empirically, we demonstrate that these models fail to accurately capture the 28 GHz pathloss behavior in urban foliage and suburban radio environments. In addition to RMS direction-spread analyses for angles-of-arrival via the SAGE algorithm, we perform signal decoherence studies wherein we derive exponential models for the spatial/angular autocorrelation coefficient under distance and alignment effects.
AB - This paper details the design of an autonomous alignment and tracking platform to mechanically steer directional horn antennas in a sliding correlator channel sounder setup for 28 GHz V2X propagation modeling. A pan-and-tilt subsystem facilitates uninhibited rotational mobility along the yaw and pitch axes, driven by open-loop servo units and orchestrated via inertial motion controllers. A geo-positioning subsystem augmented in accuracy by real-time kinematics enables navigation events to be shared between a transmitter and receiver over an Apache Kafka messaging middleware framework with fault tolerance. Herein, our system demonstrates a 3D geo-positioning accuracy of 17 cm, an average principal axes positioning accuracy of 1.1°, and an average tracking response time of 27.8 ms. Crucially, fully autonomous antenna alignment and tracking facilitates continuous series of measurements, a unique yet critical necessity for millimeter wave channel modeling in vehicular networks. The power-delay profiles, collected along routes spanning urban and suburban neighborhoods on the NSF POWDER testbed, are used in pathloss evaluations involving the 3GPP TR38.901 and ITU-R M.2135 standards. Empirically, we demonstrate that these models fail to accurately capture the 28 GHz pathloss behavior in urban foliage and suburban radio environments. In addition to RMS direction-spread analyses for angles-of-arrival via the SAGE algorithm, we perform signal decoherence studies wherein we derive exponential models for the spatial/angular autocorrelation coefficient under distance and alignment effects.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279397
DO - 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279397
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85178277313
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 5042
EP - 5047
BT - ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
A2 - Zorzi, Michele
A2 - Tao, Meixia
A2 - Saad, Walid
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023
Y2 - 28 May 2023 through 1 June 2023
ER -