Channel characterisation in rural railway environment at 28 GHz

Abstract

Nowadays, rail traffic is expected to evolve into a new era of `smart rail mobility', where trains, infrastructure, travellers and goods will be increasingly interconnected. Railway communications are required to support various high-data-rate applications, the communication system should be carefully designed, which makes railway scenario becomes a more and more important communication scenario. In this study, the channel characteristics are analysed for rural railway at 28 GHz. Four different deployments are considered via calibrated ray-tracing simulations in the target environment. The large-scale parameters of the mmWave channel, including the path loss, root-mean-square delay spread, Rician K -factor, angular spreads and cross-polarisation ratio are explored. The statistical properties, decorrelation distance and cross-correlations are analysed as well. The studied channel characteristics can be used to support the link level and system level design of the communication system in the similar environment.