Throughput and Spherical Coverage Performance of mmWave Dual Polarized Antenna Arrays

This paper studies the correspondence between two metrics namely the spherical coverage CDF of array Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) and the link-level throughput when the same mmWave antenna arrays are considered at the user equipment. The CDF of array EIRP is a convenient metric to use when ordering the performance of two antenna array designs in the spherical coverage perspective. However, for the end user experience, the end-to-end throughput link-level metric taking into account the full base station, channel and user equipment is needed. This paper shows the correspondence of these two metrics in the case of diversity performance evaluation of different antennas array configurations. However for MIMO throughput, the CDF of array gain cannot be exclusively used to classify the performance of different antenna array designs and a full link-level evaluation is still required.