Millimeter-wave communications for smart rail mobility: From channel modeling to prototyping
Paper in proceeding, 2019

In this paper, we present an integration solution from channel modeling to prototyping, to realize millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications for smart rail mobility. In order to involve the railway features in the channel models, two mmWave channel models are established based on ray-tracing simulations in realistic railway scenarios. Moreover, the challenges raised by mmWave directional network under high mobility is overcome by our solutions concerning handover scheme, random access procedure, and beamforming strategies. By integrating these key enabling technologies, we prototype the mobile hotspot network (MHN) system which realizes 1.25 Gbps downlink data throughput in a subway line with the train speed of 80 km/h.

Ray-tracing

Channel modeling

Millimeter wave

Railway communications

MHN

Author

Ke Guan

Beijing Jiaotong University

Danping He

Beijing Jiaotong University

Bo Ai

Beijing Jiaotong University

Bile Peng

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Andrej Hrovat

Jozef Stefan Institute

Junhyeong Kim

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Zhangdui Zhong

Beijing Jiaotong University

Thomas Kurner

Technische Universität Braunschweig

2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2019 - Proceedings

8757021
978-1-7281-2373-8 (ISBN)

2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2019
Shanghai, China,

Subject Categories

Computer Engineering

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/ICCW.2019.8757021

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