3RD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TECHNOLOGY - ENGINEERING & SCIENCE - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2017-02-09)

Path Loss Analysis Of 5g Mobile Network
The conventional 2G, 3G and 4G frequencies have begun facing the global bandwidth shortage issue and it is expected to rise by the year 2020. To overcome this, the fifth generation mobile network also known as 5G is being proposed. However, its path loss performance has yet to be tested for its deployment into the current network system. This paper therefore examines the path loss properties of the 5G mobile network. The 5G mobile network encompasses the millimetre wave frequency spectrum which ranges from 3-300 GHz. In this paper, simulations are conducted at two verified frequencies which are 28 GHz and 73 GHz to identify the path loss performance with the transmitter and receiver separation distance. The simulations are conducted in two different environments as well. Extensive simulations show that the path loss for 73 GHz frequency is higher than 28 GHz. Furthermore; the Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) environment shows higher path loss reading than the Line-Of-Sight (LOS) environment.
Kaiming Yeo, Wai Leong Pang