60-GHz millimeter-wave radio: Principle, technology, and new results

Abstract

The worldwide opening of a massive amount of unlicensed spectra around 60 GHz has triggered great interest in developing affordable 60-GHz radios.This interest has been catalyzed by recent advance of 60-GHz front-end technologies.This paper briefly reports recent work in the 60-GHz radio.Aspects addressed in this paper include global regulatory and standardization, justification of using the 60-GHz bands, 60-GHz consumer electronics applications, radio system concept, 60-GHz propagation and antennas, and key issues in system design. Some new simulation results are also given. Potentials and problems are explained in detail.