NIST-Backed Alliance Focuses on High-Frequency Spectrum Bands
The National Institute of Standards and Technology formed the 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance to look at 3D channel modeling at high frequencies, NIST said in a news release. Last week, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the FCC soon would…
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press ahead on an NPRM on more use of high-frequency spectrum bands (see 1508030071). NIST said the alliance includes telecom companies and universities. “NIST created the group to help meet a global surge in demand for wireless data transmission and capacity,” NIST said Tuesday. “As telecommunication frequencies go higher, the behavior of wireless signals changes. Different factors, like structures in the way, affect signal loss and distortion. Accurate models based on real-world measurements are needed to design not only the optimum system hardware but to develop standards that drive the underlying protocols for handling the transmissions. The work is challenging, in part because the technologies don't exist yet.”