Quasi-Deterministic Channel Propagation Model for an Urban Environment at 28 GHz

We reduced the parameters of the Quasi-Deterministic channel propagation model, recently adopted by the
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task group for next-generation Wi-Fi at millimeter-wave (mmWave), from measurements collected in an urban environment with our 28 GHz switched-array channel sounder. In the process—as a novel contribution—we extended the clustering of channel rays from the conventional delay and angle domains to the location domain of the receiver, over which the measurements were collected. By comparing channel realizations from the model to realizations from a leading commercial ray-tracer, we demonstrated that the model effects no detriment to accuracy while maintaining the benefit of significantly reduced complexity.