ABSTRACT
In contrast to the scarcity of bandwidth typical at lower frequencies, large swathes of unlicensed spectrum are available worldwide in the 60 GHz band. This chapter provides potential applications and system design considerations for emerging 60 GHz wireless systems that capitalize on these hardware advances. It deals with potential applications, but devotes most of the exposition to a discussion on the new design considerations relative to those in the cellular and WiFi networks that wireless designers are most familiar with. Wireless Personal Area Networks standards for 60 GHz have been issued by ECMA and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.15.3c group. As demand for wireless data continues scaling up and the cost of 60 GHz transceivers scales down, 60 GHz links directly between picocellular base stations and mobile handsets may become an attractive means of providing Gigabit data rate connectivity with high spatial reuse.
