The impact of rainfall on E-band millimeter-wave links in East China

Millimeter-wave has a larger available bandwidth, which can meet the 5G transmission requirements for large capacity and high speed. The E-band millimeter-wave can bring richer channel resources and higher data rates. This paper introduces the field experiment of E-band millimeter-wave link in Nanjing, China. The link operates at 71 GHz and 81 GHz. The experiment evaluated the accuracy of the ITU-R model in estimating rainfall-induced attenuation along long-distance, high-frequency links in 5G networks.