Transmission of 1024-QAM OFDM at 28 GHz Radio Frequency Using 5G Millimeter Wave Phased Array Antenna

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the transmission of multiorder quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) millimeter wave (MMW) orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) signal at 28 GHz radio frequency (RF). To overcome these unfavorable channel properties such as high path loss, propagation loss, rain fading, etc., 5G MMW phased array antenna has been used. Meanwhile, probabilistic shaping (PS) technology is applied to extend transmission distance, and Volterra nonlinearity compensation (VNC) technology is used to alleviate the system nonlinearity. Using 5G MMW phased array antennas and technologies of PS and VNC, 6.72 Gbit/s 1024-QAM OFDM signal at 28 GHz can be transmitted over 55-m wireless distance in our experiment, satisfying the normalized general mutual information (NGMI) threshold of 0.83 with 25% soft-decision forward-error-correction (SD-FEC) overhead. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to demonstrate the transmission of multiorder QAM OFDM signal at 28 GHz RF using 5G MMW phased array antenna.