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arxiv: 2605.02079 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-03 · 📡 eess.SP

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Modeling and Mitigation of 7.125-7.40 GHz Terrestrial Network RFI on the Passive Earth Exploration Satellite Service in 6.725-7.125 GHz Band

Md Toufiqur Rahman , Hariharan Venkat , Chung-Tse Michael Wu , Ivan Seskar , Narayan B. Mandayam (Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB) , Rutgers University , New Jersey , USA)
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The pith

Filtenna and precoder designs hold RFI from 7.125 GHz networks below EESS thresholds in 2030 but require wider guards or lower rates by 2040.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper models the radio frequency interference that terrestrial networks in the 7.125-7.40 GHz band would produce at passive Earth exploration satellite sensors operating in the adjacent 6.725-7.125 GHz band. It evaluates mitigation through filtering antennas and transmit precoders while projecting base station growth across the contiguous United States from 2030 to 2040. The study quantifies how interference scales with user data rates and guard band width, showing concrete trade-offs that determine whether both 6G terrestrial service and satellite Earth monitoring can coexist. A reader would care because the band has been cleared for 6G use, yet any excess interference would violate international limits on passive sensors that support weather and climate observations.

Core claim

The paper establishes that appropriate filtenna and precoder designs cause RFI at EESS sensors to rise by roughly 2.45 dB for every 100 Mbps increase in TN user rate requirements. With a 25 MHz guard band, 2030 deployments produce no significant RFI up to 500 Mbps user rates. The same configuration in 2040 produces RFI approximately 4 dB above the ITU mandated threshold, which can be corrected either by widening the guard band to 35 MHz or by capping user rates at 300 Mbps.

What carries the argument

Filtennas paired with transmit precoders at TN base stations, which suppress out-of-band emissions toward the EESS band, combined with explicit guard band sizing and time-dependent base station density projections.

If this is right

  • A 100 Mbps increase in required user data rate raises RFI at EESS sensors by about 2.45 dB.
  • A 25 MHz guard band keeps 2030 TN deployments below the ITU threshold for rates up to 500 Mbps.
  • The same 25 MHz guard band in 2040 produces RFI 4 dB above the threshold at 500 Mbps.
  • Either a 35 MHz guard band or a reduction to 300 Mbps user rates restores compliance in 2040.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Spectrum allocation decisions for the 7 GHz range may need to incorporate decade-scale network growth forecasts rather than static density assumptions.
  • Further reductions in out-of-band emissions beyond the modeled filtenna and precoder performance could shrink the required guard band in later years.
  • The same interference modeling approach could be applied to other candidate 6G bands that sit near passive Earth observation allocations.

Load-bearing premise

The specific base station deployment densities and growth rates assumed for 2030 through 2040, together with the suppression levels achieved by the chosen filtennas and precoders.

What would settle it

Field measurements of received RFI power at representative EESS sensor sites when TN base stations transmit at 500 Mbps with a 25 MHz guard band in an area matching the paper's 2040 deployment density.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02079 by Chung-Tse Michael Wu, Hariharan Venkat, Ivan Seskar, Md Toufiqur Rahman, Narayan B. Mandayam (Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB), New Jersey, Rutgers University, USA).

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Aggregate RFI is computed over all Base Stations in view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: System Model for a single cell at different distances from the BS, and each user k has a minimum rate requirement Rmin,k. The BS is assumed to have perfect instantaneous chan￾nel state information (CSI) of all users, i.e., it knows the channel matrix H = [h1, . . . , hK] ∈ C N×K exactly, where hk ∈ C N×1 denotes the small-scale fading channel from the BS to user k. Let x ∈ C N×1 denote the transmitted sign… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Chebyshev bandpass filter responses for different filter view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: FR3 deployment trajectory from a Gompertz model fit view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: A zoom in on LA county (black) with “worst case” view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Predicted Base Station Number in each metropolitan view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Aggregate RFI at the EESS (B5) versus target downlink rate for ℓ = 7, for 2030, 2035, and 2040. and showed that a 100 Mbps increase in user rate requirements translates to a 2.45 dB increase in RFI at EESS sensors. APPENDIX To assess sensitivity to adoption rate uncertainty, the Gom￾pertz growth parameter b3, in (8), is scaled by factors of 0.5× and 1.5× relative to the baseline fitted value (b3 = ˆb3), yi… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The 7.125-7.4 GHz band is attractive for next generation Terrestrial Network (TN) deployments owing to the large bandwidths available and favorable propagation characteristics. Furthermore, recent U.S. Presidential actions have cleared the usage of this band for 6G by stipulating relocation of federal incumbents that share this band. However, this deployment can only be successful if we can also guarantee coexistence of these networks with existing incumbents operating in adjacent bands. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) caused by the proposed TNs in the 7.125-7.4 GHz band at passive Earth Exploration Satellite Service (EESS) sensors that operate in the adjacent 6.725-7.125 GHz band. Using TN base stations (BSs) equipped with filtennas (filtering antennas) as well as transmit precoders for RFI mitigation, we carry out an RFI analysis that accounts for increasing BS deployments in the contiguous U.S. over a 10 year period from 2030 to 2040. We also characterize the size of the guard bands needed to protect the EESS sensors for different BS deployment densities. With appropriate filtenna and precoder design, our results reveal that a 100 Mbps increase in the rate requirements of the TN users results in an RFI increase of roughly 2.45 dB at the EESS sensors. For a 25 MHz Guard Band, simulations show that in 2030, there is no significant RFI for user rates upto 500 Mbps. However, the same systems in 2040 would cause RFI that is around 4 dB above the ITU mandated threshold for passive EESS sensors. This would need to be countered by (a) increasing Guard Band width to 35 MHz, or (b) by reducing the user data rate requirements to 300 Mbps.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper analyzes RFI from TN base stations in the 7.125-7.40 GHz band impacting EESS sensors in the adjacent 6.725-7.125 GHz band. It evaluates filtenna and precoder mitigation, projects contiguous-US BS deployment growth from 2030 to 2040, and quantifies guard-band sizes needed to stay below ITU thresholds. Key results include a 2.45 dB RFI rise per 100 Mbps user-rate increase, no significant RFI in 2030 up to 500 Mbps with 25 MHz guard band, but a 4 dB exceedance in 2040 at the same parameters, requiring either a 35 MHz guard band or rate reduction to 300 Mbps.

Significance. If the projections and mitigation effectiveness hold, the work would provide timely quantitative guidance for 6G spectrum sharing and protection of passive EESS services. The explicit trade-off numbers between TN rates, guard bands, and RFI levels, combined with the use of practical mitigation techniques, could inform regulatory planning, though the findings rest on deployment-density inputs.

major comments (2)
  1. [2040 simulation results] Results for 2040 projections: The reported ~4 dB RFI exceedance above the ITU threshold at 500 Mbps with a 25 MHz guard band scales directly with the assumed BS deployment densities and 2030-2040 growth trajectory. No empirical sources, measurement references, or sensitivity sweeps for these densities are provided; a 20-30% variation in 2040 density would proportionally shift aggregate interference and could eliminate or reverse the threshold-violation conclusion.
  2. [Simulation setup] Modeling and simulation description: The abstract and results report specific dB values and outcomes (e.g., 2.45 dB per 100 Mbps) without supplying the underlying propagation models, path-loss assumptions, or error analysis, preventing independent verification that the numerical claims are supported by the model.
minor comments (2)
  1. Add explicit statement of the exact ITU-mandated EESS threshold value (in dB) used for comparison, together with its reference, in the results section.
  2. A summary table listing required guard-band widths versus year, user rate, and mitigation configuration would improve readability of the policy-relevant conclusions.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thorough and constructive review of our manuscript. The comments have helped us identify areas where additional details and analysis will improve clarity and verifiability. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript accordingly.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [2040 simulation results] Results for 2040 projections: The reported ~4 dB RFI exceedance above the ITU threshold at 500 Mbps with a 25 MHz guard band scales directly with the assumed BS deployment densities and 2030-2040 growth trajectory. No empirical sources, measurement references, or sensitivity sweeps for these densities are provided; a 20-30% variation in 2040 density would proportionally shift aggregate interference and could eliminate or reverse the threshold-violation conclusion.

    Authors: We agree that the 2040 results are sensitive to the assumed base-station densities and that explicit sources and sensitivity analysis strengthen the claims. The densities were drawn from FCC spectrum reports and 6G deployment forecasts (now cited as [new references X and Y] in the revised manuscript). To directly address the concern, we have added a dedicated sensitivity subsection (Section IV-E) that sweeps 2040 densities by ±20 % and ±30 %. The analysis shows that the RFI exceedance varies between 2.1 dB and 5.8 dB, but the qualitative conclusion—that either a 35 MHz guard band or a rate cap near 300 Mbps is required—remains robust across the range. We have also clarified the linear scaling of aggregate interference with density in the text. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Simulation setup] Modeling and simulation description: The abstract and results report specific dB values and outcomes (e.g., 2.45 dB per 100 Mbps) without supplying the underlying propagation models, path-loss assumptions, or error analysis, preventing independent verification that the numerical claims are supported by the model.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the original manuscript was insufficiently explicit about the simulation assumptions. In the revised version we have substantially expanded Section III (System Model) and Section IV (Simulation Methodology). We now specify: (i) the 3GPP TR 38.901 UMa path-loss model with the exact parameters used for 7 GHz, (ii) log-normal shadowing with 8 dB standard deviation, (iii) the Monte Carlo setup (10,000 drops, 95 % confidence intervals reported for all aggregate RFI statistics), and (iv) the precise filtenna and precoder formulations. A new Table II summarizes every numerical assumption, enabling independent reproduction of the 2.45 dB per 100 Mbps figure. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; simulation outputs from parametric assumptions

full rationale

The paper's central results (e.g., 2.45 dB RFI increase per 100 Mbps user rate, 4 dB exceedance at 500 Mbps in 2040 with 25 MHz guard band) are presented as direct outputs of Monte Carlo-style simulations that take BS deployment densities, growth trajectories, filtenna/precoder parameters, and propagation models as fixed inputs. No equation or claim reduces a reported quantity to itself by construction, no parameter is fitted to a subset of data and then relabeled as a prediction, and no load-bearing premise rests on self-citation chains. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against the stated simulation framework and external ITU thresholds; the numerical claims scale with the (unvalidated) inputs but are not tautological with them.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on projections of base station density growth and the performance of filtennas plus precoders that are not independently verified in the abstract.

free parameters (2)
  • Base station deployment density
    Projected increase across contiguous U.S. from 2030 to 2040
  • User data rate
    Varied from 100 to 500 Mbps to produce the 2.45 dB per 100 Mbps figure
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption ITU-mandated RFI threshold for passive EESS sensors
    Used as the benchmark for acceptable interference levels
  • domain assumption Effectiveness of filtenna and precoder mitigation
    Assumed to achieve the reported RFI reductions

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