Current wireless communication channels are experiencing heavy congestion due to the widespread use of smartphones and tablets worldwide, thus giving rise to an unprecedented demand for wider and faster cellular networks and less costly backhaul between base stations. Millimeter wave communication channels offer a viable solution to current bandwidth congestion. The millimeter wave frequency spectrum can support high bandwidths, thus providing multi-gigabit data rates, much greater than today.

NYU WIRELESS graduate student Shu Sun, working with major professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, will lead a project for Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) that will study millimeter wave cellular communications measurements in the E-band in Brooklyn and Manhattan. This data will be used as the basis of a statistical spatial channel model to characterize the millimeter wave band in one of the world’s toughest propagation environments.