Q-band Indoor Propagation Modelling and Measurements for 5G

With ESA’s philosophy of transferring possible space-related or satellite technologies into terrestrial applications, we have developed a Q-band measurement system in order to investigate the indoor propagation conditions in the millimetre wave band, capable of transmitting and receiving in the 38GHz mm-wave radio band that the new generation of cellular mobile 5G networks will also utilize. Our paper concentrates on determining a signal level map for a specific indoor measurement and compares it with existing ITU-R model P.1238 which provides an analytical base model for indoor propagation. We describe a simulated indoor environment and created a propagation map for the stages which have been compared with real measurements.