Beam Entropy of 5G Cellular Millimetre-Wave Channels

In this paper, we obtain and study typical beam entropy values for millimetre-wave (mm-wave) channel models using the NYUSIM simulator for frequencies up to 100 GHz for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular communication systems. The beam entropy is used to quantify sparse MIMO channel randomness in beamspace. Lower relative beam entropy channels are suitable for memory- assisted statistically-ranked (MarS) and hybrid radio frequency (RF) beam training algorithms. High beam entropies can potentially be advantageous for low overhead secured radio communications by generating cryptographic keys based on the channel randomness in beamspace, especially for sparse multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) channels. Urban microcell (UMi) and urban macrocell (UMa) cellular scenarios have been investigated in this work for 28, 60, 73, and 100 GHz carrier frequencies and the rural macrocell (RMa) scenario for 3.5 GHz.