Quasi-Deterministic-Channel-Propagation Model for a Data Center at 60 GHz

Published

April 30, 2018

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile, Peter B. Papazian, Roy Sun, Jelena Senic, Jian Wang

Abstract

We describe a measurement campaign conducted in a data center, a unique environment in which transceivers are positioned above the server racks. A total of 80 channel acquisitions, including small-scale measurements, were recorded using our 3D double-directional 60-GHz channel sounder with 0.5-ns delay resolution and 2° average angle error. For each acquisition, the channel multipath components were extracted in the delay-angle space and subsequently reduced to the parameters of the Quasi-Deterministic channel model: a stochastic map-based model that represents the scattering of incident waves off ambient reflectors as specular components, each surrounded by a cluster of diffuse components. The weaker diffuse components interfere with the stronger specular component, giving rise to small-scale fading. Only with super-resolution capabilities, such as that of our system, were we able to show how densely the diffuse components were packed, with 1/ns to 2/ns arrival rates and cluster angular spreads between 3° and 4°. Most importantly, we measured the diffuse power to be as high as 26% of the total cluster power, demonstrating that small-scale fading at mmWave frequencies can be significant.

Citation

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volume

17

Issue

5

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2018.2817066

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Keywords

mmWave, millimeter-wave, wireless, server room

Citation

Gentile, C. , Papazian, P. , Sun, R. , Senic, J. and Wang, J. (2018), Quasi-Deterministic-Channel-Propagation Model for a Data Center at 60 GHz, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2018.2817066, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=923682 (Accessed October 22, 2025)