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This work was supported in part by the Next Generation of Active Antennas for Ground Segment (Telemetry, Tracking Control, and Data Handling) through European Space Agency (ESA) under Grant AO/1-11127/22/NL/AS and Grant 4000138412/22/NL/AS; in part by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and Digital Transformation and European Union (EU)-NextGenerationEU for the Project TSI-063000-2021-83; in part by Spanish Government, the Ministry of Economy, National Program of Research, Development and Innovation under the Project New Array Antenna Technologies and Digital Processing for the Future Integrated Terrestrial and Space-Based Millimeter Wave Radio Systems-Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - INegrated TERrestrial and SPACE(UPM-InTerSpaCE) under Grant PID2020-112545RB-C51/AEi/10.13039/501100011033; in part by Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 under Project PID2020-113979RB-C21; in part by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 under Project PID2020-113979RB-C21; and in part by Madrid City Council under the Laboratory 5G (LAB5G) Project PC220935C247B.

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A Millimeter-Wave Phased Array-Aided 5G Communication Prototype: Evaluation in an Indoor Scenario

Publicado en:IEEE Access. 12 155804-155820 - 2024-01-01 12(), DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3483573

Autores: Verdecia-Pena, Randy; Muriel-Barrado, Alfonso Tomas; Calatayud-Maeso, Jorge; Sanchez-Olivares, Pablo; Fernandez-Gonzalez, Jose Manuel; Alonso, Jose I

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In this paper, a millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G communication prototype composed of a phased-array antenna and a transceiver is proposed. The prototype involves a custom-manufactured planar active phased array antenna featuring linear polarization, which incorporates a beamforming integrated circuit (BFIC) comprising an 8 x 8 -element planar array. The 27 GHz transceiver is a prototype fabricated with off-the-shelf components and designed to downconvert/upconvert signals from 3.5 GHz to 27 GHz. Additionally, a 3GPP-inspired gNodeB based on the FR2 5G signal, which introduces a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) and implements a phase noise cancellation (PNC) algorithm in the user equipment (UE) node, was emulated. A measurement campaign in an indoor scenario, including validation using commercial equipment and a comparison with a passive antenna for the Q-PSK and 16-QAM modulation schemes has been carried out. We provide several key performance indicators (KPIs) including throughput, EVM, and BLER, to demonstrate the statistical performance of the proposed prototype. The obtained results support that the integration of a phased-array antenna is a promising technology for the future of wireless communications.

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