Paper Info
Title
Channel measurements in an open-pit mine using USRPs: 5G — Expect the unexpected
Abstract
In this paper, we describe and analyze the results of a radio channel measurement campaign in an extreme industrial environment; a large open-pit copper mine targeted by next generation's highly voiced device communications. We present a practical and efficient method to perform robust and high-sensitivity impulse response measurements without a common clock reference using the widely spread USRP hardware. With this technique, we performed channel sounding on a large number of locations within the mine. One important observation is that the radio channel's impulse response in an open-pit mine can often be more than 10 μs long, and much unlike the responses normally associated with Wi-Fi and mobile cellular radio systems, which poses serious design challenges for future 5G radio systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/WCNC.2016.7564672
2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
channel measurements,open pit mine,USRP,radio channel measurement,industrial environment,open pit copper mine,voiced device communications,impulse response measurements,clock reference,USRP hardware,channel sounding,radio channel impulse response,mobile cellular radio systems,Wi-Fi,5G radio systems
Conference
978-1-4673-9815-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R. Nilsson111726.08
Jaap van de Beek262.54