Beam-Steered Sub-THz Channel Measurements in D-Band in an Industrial Environment

This paper presents results of a channel measurement campaign carried out in a production hall of Rohde & Schwarz in Memmingen, Germany. The channel measurements were performed with a novel time-domain correlative channel sounder operating in the D-Band at a carrier frequency of 160 GHz. The channel measurements were performed and an-alyzed with respect to the topic of beam-steering and macro-diversity gains. It was found out that an average macro-diversity gain of 3.2 dB for line-of-sight and 5.7 dB for non-line-of-sight is achieved.