Channel Measurement and Characterization for 5G Cellular Network with Passive Sounding Method at 2.6 GHz
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https://doi.org/10.13052/2024.ACES.J.391011Keywords:
5G cellular network, channel measurement, passive soundingAbstract
The fifth generation (5G) communication, which is capable of realizing wireless communication with a extremely low latency and high data rate, has been put into commercial use widely. The propagation channel is of great significance for design, performance evaluation, and improvement of 5G system. As to investigate the wireless channel of 5G network, a channel measurement system based on passive sounding method is proposed in this paper. By utilizing the 5G downlink signal, e.g., synchronization signal block (SSB) and channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), the proposed system is able to extract the multipath parameters of 5G propagation environment. Moreover, a measurement campaign is conducted at an urban macro-cellular (uMa) environment with the passive sounding system. The measured results is briefly analysed and compared with the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) results.
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