Wide band 60 GHz indoor channel: characterization and statistical modeling

Transmission of high rate data in an indoor environment is an important issue for personal or industrial applications. Millimetric waves are one possibility for such transmissions. Because they are strongly attenuated they are very interesting to simplify the frequency planning and to reduce the electro-magnetic pollution. They also offer a large available bandwidth to allow high rate transmissions. However, the first encountered problem to build systems at this frequency is the absence of accurate data about the channel and the consequences of fading or interference between symbols for high data rate links (155 Mbits/s). We propose a contribution to the indoor 60 GHz channel characterization. We also try to define a stationary model in order to use it in simulations. The model is based on a statistical study of the measured data.