On the stochastic and deterministic behavior of mmWave channels

A wireless channel is always composed of both deterministic and stochastic multi-path components. A high Rician K-factor increases the contribution of deterministic channel components, thereby reducing the significance of stochastic parts of a channel. This paper focus at the investigative analysis of K-factor and fading depth to analyze the deterministic behavior of a channel under a certain bandwidth. In this paper, 4 different propagation setups have been studied including a LOS, reflections from black board and wall are considered due to their different surface roughness and double bounce reflections from both surfaces. It has been observed that in all propagation cases, small scale fading depth asymptotically converges towards zero dB whereby K-factor increases with bandwidth. Results also show that the de-polarization of a signal increases its amplitude fading. This effect is much more significant at lower bandwidths but an increase in bandwidth reduces the difference in fade depths between polarized and depolarized signals. These observations lead to a conclusion that channel tend to be more deterministic at higher bandwidths.