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EMC and Metrology Challenges for 5G and Beyond

December 7, 2018
Author(s)
Perry F. Wilson, Catherine A. Remley, William F. Young, Camillo A. Gentile, John M. Ladbury, Dylan F. Williams
The potential to connect people and devices anywhere and anytime is driving the development and deployment of a multitude of wireless systems. Wireless connectivity is central to advanced communication technologies, the internet of things (IoT), the smart

Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurement and Modeling: A NIST Perspective

December 7, 2018
Author(s)
Camillo A. Gentile, Peter B. Papazian, Nada T. Golmie, Catherine A. Remley, Peter G. Vouras, Jelena Senic, Jian Wang, Jack Chuang, Ruoyu Sun
The exponential increase in wireless data transmission from smartphones has led to the saturation of the sub-6-GHz bands, forcing cellular providers to migrate to the millimeter-wave (mmWave) regime for 5G. Although available channel bandwidths will grow

Millimeter-Wave Propagation Channels vs. Synthetic Beamwidth

December 7, 2018
Author(s)
Roy Sun, Camillo A. Gentile, Jelena Senic, Peter G. Vouras, Peter B. Papazian, Nada T. Golmie, Catherine A. Remley
High-gain narrow-beam antennas or beamformed antenna arrays will likely be used in millimeter- wave (mmWave) bands and 5G to mitigate the high path loss. Since many multipath components may be excluded by the narrow beam, the mmWave propagation channels

Bringing Precision to Measurements for mmWave 5G Wireless

December 3, 2018
Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley
At millimeter-wave frequencies and for wide modulation bandwidths, the hardware performance of both modulated-signal sources and vector receivers becomes increasingly nonideal. These nonidealities make test and validation of devices, circuits and systems

A Possible Advantage of Using Bi-directional S-Parameters in Antenna Measurements

November 30, 2018
Author(s)
Alex Yuffa, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis, Josh Gordon, David R. Novotny
the unknown-thru calibration technique is being used to achieve a system level calibration at milli-meter frequencies (>50 GHz) on the robotic ranges at NIST. Since this requires the use of a full bi-directional measurement, which takes longer than

DETECTION OF INCUMBENT RADAR IN THE 3.5 GHZ CBRS BAND

November 25, 2018
Author(s)
Raied Caromi, Michael R. Souryal, Wen-Bin Yang
In the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service, 100 MHz of spectrum will be shared between commercial users and federal incumbents. Dynamic use of the band relies on a network of sensors dedicated to detecting the presence of federal incumbent signals and

3.5 GHz ESC Sensor Test Apparatus Using Field-Measured Waveforms

November 14, 2018
Author(s)
Raied Caromi, John Mink, Cosburn H. Wedderburn, Michael R. Souryal, Naceur El Ouni
This paper presents a framework and apparatus for laboratory testing of environmental sensing capability (ESC) sensors for the 3.5 GHz band. These sensors are designed to detect federal incumbent signals in the band so that the federal incumbent can be

Using LZMA Compression for Spectrum Sensing with SDR Samples

November 9, 2018
Author(s)
Andre Rosete, Kenneth Baker, Yao Ma
Successful spectrum management requires reliable methods for determining whether communication signals are present in a spectrum portion of interest. The widely-used energy detection (ED), or radiometry method is only useful in determining whether a

Instructions for Running the RF Sensor Test Harness

November 8, 2018
Author(s)
Cosburn H. Wedderburn, Raied Caromi, Michael R. Souryal
This document is a step-by-step set of instructions for downloading and operating the RF Sensor Test Harness. The RF Sensor Test Harness consists of a Python web server, LabVIEW server (LabVIEW player), and a web browser. The player accepts the waveforms

Precision Optical Antenna Alignment System for Tracking Antennas in 6-DOF

November 4, 2018
Author(s)
Joshua A. Gordon, David R. Novotny, Michael S. Allman
We present on an all-optical spatial metrology system, the PiCMM, that aids in the alignment and tracking of antennas with accuracies on the order of 25 microns and 0.01 deg. This system speeds up millimeter-wave antenna alignment, does not require contact

A Systematic Study: Channel Sounding via Modal Expansion

November 3, 2018
Author(s)
Alex Yuffa, Ben Jamroz, Jake Rezac, Dylan Williams
We present preliminary results of using a modal (partial wave) expansion of the field to characterize a propagation channel. We assume that the measurements of the scalar, two-dimensional field from which the modal expansion coefficients are obtained

Antenna Radiation Pattern Measurements in Reverberation Chamber

November 3, 2018
Author(s)
Audrey K. Puls
Antenna radiation pattern measurements are typically performed in anechoic chambers which are expensive to buy and inconvenient to rent from external facilities. This paper investigates the use of a reverberation chamber for antenna radiation pattern

3.5 GHz Federal Incumbent Protection Algorithms

October 21, 2018
Author(s)
Michael R. Souryal, Thao T. Nguyen, Nickolas J. LaSorte
The current standardized algorithm for U.S. federal incumbent protection in the 3.5 GHz band is sub-optimum in that it moves more commercial transmissions out of the protected channel than necessary, in most cases. This paper proposes a more efficient

PSCR 2017 Stakeholder Conference Presentation Materials -- Day 1

October 16, 2018
Author(s)
Jeremy E. Benson, Jeff Johnson, Eric W. Anderson, Carol Politi, TRX Systems, Inc., Anthony Rowe, A Shkel, Chenji Harsha, Nancy French, Murat Yuskel, Benjamin J. Posthuma, Margaret Pinson, Dereck R. Orr
This document is a compilation of the slides presented during Day 3 of the 2017 Public Safety Communications Research Program's (PSCR) Annual Stakeholder Conference. Day 3 topics include PSCR research plans and results for Location-Based Services

Correlation-Based Uncertainty in Loaded Reverberation Chambers

October 1, 2018
Author(s)
Maria G. Becker, Michael R. Frey, Sarah B. Streett, Catherine A. Remley, Robert D. Horansky, Damir Senic
When reverberation chambers are loaded to increase the coherence bandwidth for modulated-signal measurements, a secondary effect is decreased spatial uniformity. We show that an appropriate choice of stirring sequence, consisting of a combination of mode

Probability of Coexistence of LTE-LAA and WLAN Systems Based on Delay Constraints

July 29, 2018
Author(s)
Yao Ma, William Young, Eric W. Anderson, Jason Coder
To support efficient spectrum sharing and related standardization efforts in unlicensed spectrum, it is important to develop analytical tools to accurately quantify coexistence performance between long-term evolution license assisted access (LTE-LAA) and
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