Rain effects on 5G millimeter wave ad-hoc mesh networks investigated with different rain models

Abstract

Substantial growth of mobile data and rapidly increasing spread of smartphones nowadays present major challenge for mobile service providers. The allotted spectrum for the currently operating mobile communicating systems have been saturated in the last years by such considerable rate that the future’s fifth generation network would not be able to fulfil its requirements without applying new frequencies. In accordance with the concept of 5G, millimeter wave spectrum will also be used along with the current frequency bands.

This spectrum however, introduces meteorological effects as a new and significant attenuation factor. In this paper millimeter wave propagation affected by precipitation will be investigated and a simulation environment (written in Matlab) used for the 5G mm-wave mesh networks statistical investigation will be presented.