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Thanks to its slow-varying characteristic and relatively low requirement for estimation overhead, the covariance matrix has been extensively researched in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. Nevertheless, user mobility in practice will cause a gradual change in the covariance matrix, thereby deteriorating the system's performance if no update of the covariance matrix is applied. In this paper,...Show More
This paper investigates the antenna capabilities of a near-field measurement probe, such as the return loss (S11), radiation pattern and peak gain. For this purpose, a rectangular open ended waveguide (OEWG) is used, while minimizing its scattering cross section (SCS), to increase the accuracy of near-field measurements. In this context, the relation between tapering and dielectric loading of the ...Show More
Ray tracing is a simulation tool to determine propagation paths and create channels for communication applications. Mobile links or environments with moving objects, require several ray tracing simulations to create representative communication channels. This paper proposes a dynamic ray tracing approach, by utilizing a frame based technique, depicting scenarios with moving objects as sequential s...Show More
In this work, we analyze the limits of parameter estimation of multipath components like their amplitude, delay and/or phase. Especially challenging is the estimation of such parameters when the multipath components have a low relative delay, i.e., less than half a tap delay with respect to the discrete channel impulse response. We will introduce the concept of the ambiguity subspace, which indica...Show More
Due to their passive nature and thus low energy consumption, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have shown promise as means of extending coverage as a proxy for connection reliability. The relative locations of the base station (BS), IRS, and user equipment (UE) determine the extent of the coverage that IRS provides which demonstrates the importance of IRS placement problem. More specifically,...Show More
This paper studies the relation between the mono-static scattering cross section (SCS) of a near-field measurement probe and its antenna capabilities, e.g. the return loss (S11), radiation pattern and peak gain. For this purpose, a highly parameterized model is created and several simulations are conducted with a rectangular open ended waveguide (OEWG), to assess the effects of polarization and ge...Show More
This paper investigates the required amount of orders of interaction to obtain accurate ray tracing (RT) simulations for line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) mmwave indoor scenarios. For this purpose, RT simulations with varying orders of interaction, from one to six, are analyzed and compared with previously conducted channel measurements of a kitchen scenario at 28 GHz. Most importan...Show More
Fifth Generation (5G) communications are envisioned to be an important part of future vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications. Therefore, the characterization of V2V channels is a growing research area. Several different methods, such as ray tracing are used for the channel modeling. In this context, the geometries for the ray tracing simulations are key to obtain correct channel models. This pape...Show More
The frequency bands for communication standards are continuously increasing, as it can be seen from fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G communications. This is done, to increase the capabilities of communication systems and enable new technologies, e.g. autonomous driving and wireless sensor networks. Therefore, reliable channel characterization methods, such as ray tracing, are needed to implemen...Show More
In this work, we demonstrate how a channel sounding campaign is recreated using a proprietary ray-tracing (RT) based radio propagation simulator and evaluate the simulation in terms of the achieved accuracy. In the 3.7 GHz campaign, we used a uniform cylindrical array (UCA) in an urban macro campus scenario in downtown Berlin to determine single directional channel impulse responses. Initial resul...Show More
To support gains in frequency division duplex multi-user multiple-input multiple-output scenarios, Channel State Information (CSI) is required at the Base Stations (BSs). For this purpose, Mobile Stations (MSs) report quantized CSI based on Grassmannian codebooks, that are common to MSs and BSs. Depending on the speed of the MSs, the channel changes over time and CSI must be performed frequently t...Show More
The successful deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology in cellular networks is highly dependent on the availability of existing frameworks to enable the integration and operation of RIS panels in real-world propagation environments, preferably with low standardisation impact. This paper identifies the suitability of the existing 5G-NR frameworks for channel estimation, li...Show More
In a realistic fifth generation (5G) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, hardware constraints often pose challenges towards network design that are not sufficiently considered in the literature. In this work, we consider a time division duplex (TDD) network where user equipments (UEs) are equipped with N> 1 antennas for receiving in the downlink (DL) but only with a single antenn...Show More
In this article, a review of the achieved accuracy in the literature for ray tracing (RT) based channel modeling is presented with a focus on outdoor propagation scenarios in the sub-6 GHz frequency range. The achieved accuracy is analyzed from three perspectives: 1) The input parameters which include the environmental description in the form of digital maps and the corresponding constitutive mate...Show More
In this work we evaluate urban macro single input multiple output (SIMO) channel measurement performed at 3.7 GHz in Berlin city. In the evaluation we focus on spatial correlation of multi-user channels for varying user densities and distributions in line of sight (LOS) and non line of sight (NLOS) scenarios Therefore, we calculate the correlation matrices, i.e. the covariance matrix of the macro-...Show More
In this paper, we propose a modification of (general) sparse-coded non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) designs, amenable to receiver-side processing based on peeling decoding. We numerically evaluate the joint effects of sparse signature design and forward-error correction, and characterize the interplay between the system parameters such as signature sparsity, system load, and channel coding ra...Show More
Providing reliable low latency wireless links for advanced manufacturing and processing systems is a vision of Industry 4.0. Developing, testing and rating requires accurate models of the radio propagation channel. The current 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) new radio (NR) model as well as the quasi deterministic radio channel generator (QuaDRiGa) lack the propagation parameters for the ...Show More
The 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) new radio (NR) channel model introduced spatial consistency and a correlation model for multiple frequencies. Future extensions of this model will incorporate mobility at both ends of the link. These features are essential for many emerging wireless technologies in the 5G era. However, the existing small-scale-fading (SSF) model does not integrate thes...Show More
Spatial consistency, meaning the spatial correlation of small scale fading, is a recently added feature in the geometry-based stochastic channel model used by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standardization. This feature is relevant for schemes that utilize channel correlation among users, e.g. clustering according to second order channel statistics. This paper provides a simulation base...Show More
Spatial consistency was proposed in the 3GPP TR 38.901 channel model to ensure that closely spaced mobile terminals have similar channels. Future extensions of this model might incorporate mobility at both ends of the link. This requires that all stochastic processes in the model must be correlated in 3 (single-mobility) and up to 6 spatial dimensions (dual-mobility). Existing filtering methods ca...Show More
Tactile Internet (TI) constitutes one of the major use cases for the development of the fifth generation (5G) mobile specification. TI services put high demand on the latency and reliability requirement, which is covered in the ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) discussion in 5G standardization. Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) is used in LTE to achieve high robustness in an ef...Show More
The next wireless communication system will support flexible beamforming and beam-sweeping to realize high capacity demands. This can be achieved with Massive MIMO systems realizing high beamforming gains as well as higher order multi-user multiplexing. Real proof-of-concepts are required to evaluate algorithms and show performance gains. In general, prototyping of M-MIMO systems is challenging, s...Show More
Sparse-spreading based non-orthogonal multiple access is considered to be a key component to support massive connectivity and increased capacity for future wireless communication systems. Since multiple users are co-scheduled on the same physical resources, power allocation cannot be optimized independently per user but also has to consider the assignment of resources between different users. This...Show More
As the standardization of full-dimension MIMO systems in the Third Generation Partnership Project progresses, the research community has started to explore the potential of very large arrays as an enabler technology for meeting the requirements of fifth generation systems. Indeed, in its final deliverable, the European 5G project METIS identifies massive MIMO as a key 5G enabler and proposes speci...Show More
5G mobile communication systems are likely to use the enormous bandwidths available at mm-wave frequencies. However, there is an important propagation effect that can have a major impact on the performance - the ground reflection (GR). This effect is currently not sufficiently covered by existing 3GPP propagation models. The GR causes fading both on the small-scale level, e.g., multi-path fading, ...Show More