Toward a seamless communication architecture for in-building networks at the 60 GHZ band

Conference paper (2006)

Authors

BL Dang International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar
I.G.M.M. Niemegeers Wireless and Mobile Communications
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International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar
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2006

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International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar

Abstract

This paper addresses the issues of desiging an infrastructure to support seamless in-building communication at the 60 GHz band. Recently, the 60-GHz band has received much attention due to its 5-GHz of available spectrum. Howevver, the propagation of signals in this band is strongly hindered by attenuation and line-of-sight requirements. The situation gets worse in the in-building environment where signal propagation is obstructed by physical objects such as walls, furniture etc. In this paper, we present a novel Radio over Fiber (RoF) architecture that is cost-effective and is able to deliver high data-rate of the order of gigabits. To ensure a seamless communication environment at the 60GHz band, we propose the concept of Extended Cells (EC) in order to create sufficient overlap areas. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture by simulating an in-building network at the 60 GHz band employing the RoF and EC concepts.