Led by Professors Dennis Shasha and Theodore Rappaport,  and supported by theNYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliate companies, NYU WIRELESS students have created a first-of-its-kind millimeter wave (mmWave) propagation database of all measurements made throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan at 28 and 73 GHz in 2012 and 2013. This database shall be augmented with additional propagation measurements in upcoming years.

The NYU WIRELESS mmWave propagation database includes field measurements from dozens of locations, antenna beamwidths, transmitter and receiver heights, use cases, and propagation distances throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan, and provides immensely valuable data for Industrial Affiliate companies interested in developing futuristic beam forming and modem/system design products. The data are also valuable for predicting coverage and capacity estimates for future fifth generation (5G) systems.

Through a no-cost end user license agreement, NYU WIRELESS offers all of their raw measurement data to Industrial Affiliate companies as an additional benefit of their affiliate membership.  Already, many affiliates are using this data for their own internal research purposes. The data can be accessed through a database, or provided on a hard disk. As shown in the image above, users may choose parameter values corresponding to the experiments of interest, and can instantly sort through the data for propagation measurements of interest to them.

To learn more about the NYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliates program, please contact Ben Naylor at bnaylor@nyu.edu. For more details about the pioneering propagation measurements and recent channel modeling results, click on these papers for further details:

Sources

• G. R. MacCartney, J. Zhang, S. Nie, and T. S. Rappaport, “Path loss models for 5G millimeter wave propagation channels in urban microcells,” in Proc. IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2013.
• S. Sun, and T.S. Rappaport, “Multi-beam Antenna Combining for 28 GHz Cellular Link Improvement in Urban Environments,” accepted by 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Atlanta, GA, USA, 9-13 Dec. 2013.
• S. Nie, G.R. MacCartney, S. Sun, T.S. Rappaport, “72 GHz millimeter wave indoor measurements for wireless and backhaul communications,” Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.2429,2433, 8-11 Sept. 2013.
• Mustafa Riza Akdeniz, Student Member, IEEE, Yuanpeng Liu, Student Member, IEEE, Sundeep Rangan, Senior Member, IEEE, Elza Erkip, Fellow, IEEE. “Millimeter Wave Picocellular System Evaluation for Urban Deployments“
• T.S. Rappaport, J. Murdock, F. Gutierrez, “ State of the art in 60 GHz Integrated Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications“, Proceedings of the IEEE, August 2011, Vo.99, No 8, pp. 1390-1436.
• T.S. Rappaport, F. Gutierrez, E. Ben-Dor, J.N. Murdock, Qiao Yijun, J.I. Tamir , ” Broadband Millimeter-Wave Propagation Measurements and Models Using Adaptive-Beam Antennas for Outdoor Urban Cellular Communications,” Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on , vol.61, no.4, pp.1850,1859, April 2013
• Zhao, H., Mayzus, R., Sun, S., Samimi, M., Schulz, J. K., Azar, Y., Wang, K., Wong, G. N., Gutierrez, Jr., F., Rappaport, T.S., 28 GHz Millimeter Wave Cellular Communication Measurements for Reflection and Penetration Loss in and around Buildings in New York City, Published in the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 9~13.
• Azar, Y., Wong, G. N., Wang, K., Mayzus, R., Schulz, J. K., Zhao, H., Gutierrez, F., Hwang, D., Rappaport, T. S., 28 GHz Propagation Measurements for Outdoor Cellular Communications Using Steerable Beam Antennas in New York City, Published in the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 9 ~13, 2013.
• Samimi, M., Wang, K., Azar, Y., Wong, G. N., Mayzus, R., Zhao, H., Schulz, J. K., Sun, S., Gutierrez, F., Rappaport, T. S., “28 GHz Angle of Arrival and Angle of Departure Analysis for Outdoor Cellular Communications using Steerable Beam Antennas in New York City,” Published in the 2013 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), June 2~5, 2013.
• Rappaport, T.S., Sun, S., Mayzus, R., Zhao, H., Azar, Y., Wang, K., Wong, G.N., Schulz, J.K., Samimi, M., and Gutierrez, F., “Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!” Published in the IEEE Access Journal, Vol 1, No. 1, May 2013.
• Murdock, J.; Rappaport, T., “Consumption Factor and Power-Efficiency Factor: A Theory for Evaluating the Energy Efficiency of Cascaded Communication Systems” Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal ,Vol. 32, No. 12, December 2014.
• T. S. Rappaport, J. N. Murdock “Power Efficiency and Consumption Factor Analysis for Broadband Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks” Published in 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Anaheim, CA, December 2, 2012
• Theodore S. Rappaport, Eshar Ben-Dor, James N. Murdock, Yijun Qiao “38 GHz and 60 GHz Angle-dependent Propagation for Cellular & Peer-to-Peer Wireless Communications” Published in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012
• T.S. Rappaport, E. Ben-Dor, J.N. Murdock, Y. Qiao, J. Tamir, “Cellular and Peer-to-Peer Broadband Millimeter Wave Outdoor propagation measurements and Angle of Arrival characteristics using adaptive beam steering,” invited paper and presentation, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) 2012, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 15, 2012.
• J. N. Murdock, E. Ben-Dor, Y. Qiao, J. I. Tamir, T. S. Rappaport, “A 38 GHz Cellular Outage Study for an Urban Outdoor Campus Environment,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2012.