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A phase-drift-aware SAGE algorithm improves delay resolution and parameter accuracy in outdoor 330-360 GHz MIMO channel measurements.

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load-bearing objection New outdoor 330-360 GHz MIMO channel data with phase-drift handling, but the SAGE improvement claim needs numbers to be convincing. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2605.28514 v1 pith:L7PV7SM7 submitted 2026-05-27 eess.SP

Channel Measurements and Characterization with Phase Drift Compensation for Outdoor 330-360 GHz MIMO Communications

Tian Qiu , Taihao Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Re , Yongchao He , Chenzhou Lin , Bingchang Hua , Jiangzhou Wang This is my paper
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keywords THz channel measurementMIMOphase drift compensationSAGE algorithmoutdoor propagation330-360 GHzdelay spreadspatial non-stationarity
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The paper reports an outdoor measurement campaign at 330-360 GHz that uses a 128-by-4 virtual antenna array in both line-of-sight and obstructed line-of-sight settings. It identifies a linear phase drift that occurs during the campaign and introduces a modified SAGE algorithm that compensates for this drift. The compensation step produces sharper delay profiles and more reliable estimates of multipath parameters. These estimates are then used to extract statistics on power delay profiles, path loss, shadow fading, delay and angular spreads, Rician K-factor, near-field effects, spatial non-stationarity, and cluster birth-death behavior.

Core claim

The PD-aware SAGE algorithm significantly improves both delay resolution and channel parameter estimation accuracy based on the processed measurement data, which in turn supports detailed statistical characterization of outdoor THz MIMO channels.

What carries the argument

The PD-aware SAGE algorithm, which augments the standard SAGE procedure with explicit compensation for the identified linear phase drift.

Load-bearing premise

The outdoor environment remains stationary during the measurement campaign, allowing reliable identification and compensation of the linear phase drift effect.

What would settle it

Repeating the same measurement campaign with the standard SAGE algorithm (without phase-drift compensation) and obtaining equivalent delay resolution and parameter accuracy would falsify the improvement claim.

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If this is right

  • Path-loss and shadow-fading models derived from the compensated data become usable for link-budget calculations at 330-360 GHz.
  • Delay-spread and angular-spread statistics can be applied directly to system-level simulations of outdoor THz links.
  • The observed cluster birth-death and spatial non-stationarity properties constrain the design of MIMO precoders and combiners.
  • Near-field effects identified in the measurements must be accounted for in array calibration at these frequencies.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • The compensation technique could be tested in slowly time-varying outdoor settings to check whether the stationarity assumption can be relaxed.
  • The same PD-aware processing may apply to other frequency bands where linear phase drift arises from hardware drift rather than propagation.
  • Cluster birth-death statistics could inform dynamic resource allocation algorithms that track evolving multipath clusters.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript describes an outdoor THz MIMO channel measurement campaign at 330-360 GHz using a 128×4 virtual antenna array in LoS and OLoS scenarios. Stationarity of the environment is verified and a linear phase drift is identified; a PD-aware SAGE algorithm is proposed to improve delay resolution and parameter estimation accuracy. The processed data are then used to characterize power delay profiles, path loss, shadow fading, delay and angular spreads, Rician K-factor, their distributions and correlations, plus near-field effects and MIMO-specific properties such as spatial non-stationarity and cluster birth-death.

Significance. If the reported improvement from the PD-aware SAGE holds under quantitative validation, the work supplies rare empirical data on outdoor sub-THz channels and a practical compensation technique for phase drift in long-duration measurements. The statistical characterizations (spreads, K-factor, birth-death) directly support geometry-based stochastic models needed for 6G link-level simulations.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (results on SAGE performance): the central claim that the PD-aware SAGE 'significantly improves both delay resolution and channel parameter estimation accuracy' is presented without any quantitative before/after metrics (RMSE, bias, resolution gain, or error bars) or ground-truth validation. This absence directly undermines the load-bearing assertion that the algorithm delivers measurable improvement.
  2. [§2] §2 (measurement campaign): stationarity is stated to have been 'carefully verified' to justify the linear phase-drift model, yet no concrete verification procedure, time-series statistics, or exclusion criteria for non-stationary intervals are supplied. Without these details the identification of the linear PD effect and the subsequent compensation remain untestable.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures 8-12] Figure captions and axis labels in the results section should explicitly state whether the plotted curves are for the conventional or PD-aware SAGE to allow direct visual comparison.
  2. [§3] The definition of the linear phase-drift model (slope and intercept) should be given explicitly in an equation rather than only described in text.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to provide the requested details and quantitative support.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (results on SAGE performance): the central claim that the PD-aware SAGE 'significantly improves both delay resolution and channel parameter estimation accuracy' is presented without any quantitative before/after metrics (RMSE, bias, resolution gain, or error bars) or ground-truth validation. This absence directly undermines the load-bearing assertion that the algorithm delivers measurable improvement.

    Authors: We agree that the current presentation relies on qualitative description. In the revision we will add quantitative before/after comparisons in §4, including RMSE and bias for delay estimates on both simulated channels with known ground truth and on repeated field measurements, together with error bars across multiple realizations. Ground-truth validation on real outdoor data remains limited by the absence of independent reference parameters, but the simulated cases will supply the requested numerical evidence of improvement. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§2] §2 (measurement campaign): stationarity is stated to have been 'carefully verified' to justify the linear phase-drift model, yet no concrete verification procedure, time-series statistics, or exclusion criteria for non-stationary intervals are supplied. Without these details the identification of the linear PD effect and the subsequent compensation remain untestable.

    Authors: We will expand the measurement-campaign section to describe the verification procedure in detail: the duration and repetition schedule of the stationarity tests, the correlation-coefficient threshold applied to successive power-delay profiles, and the explicit exclusion criteria used to discard non-stationary intervals. Time-series plots of received power and unwrapped phase will be added to illustrate the observed linear drift. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper reports an empirical outdoor measurement campaign at 330-360 GHz using a virtual MIMO array, with stationarity verified on-site, linear phase drift identified from data, and a PD-aware SAGE algorithm applied to extract parameters before characterizing standard channel metrics (PDP, path loss, spreads, K-factor, near-field effects, spatial non-stationarity). No derivation chain reduces a claimed prediction or fitted parameter back to itself by construction, no load-bearing self-citation of uniqueness theorems appears, and no ansatz is smuggled via prior work; all reported improvements and statistics follow directly from the processed measurements without internal reduction to inputs.

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In this paper, an outdoor channel measurement campaign at 330-360 GHz employing a 128 * 4 virtual antenna array (VAA)-based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration is conducted. The transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) location pairs are classified into line-of-sight (LoS) and obstructed-LoS (OLoS) scenarios to enable a detailed investigation of outdoor terahertz (THz) band channel characteristics. During the measurement process, the stationarity of the outdoor environment is carefully verified, and a linear phase drift (PD) effect is identified. Then, we propose a PD-aware Space-Alternating Generalized Expectation-Maximization (SAGE) algorithm, which significantly improves both delay resolution and channel parameter estimation accuracy. Based on the processed measurement data, we characterize key channel properties, including the power delay profile, path loss, shadow fading, delay spread, angular spread, Rician K-factor, as well as their cumulative distribution functions and correlation characteristics. In addition, near-field effects and MIMO-specific properties, including the spatial non-stationarity and the cluster birth-death property, are analyzed.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.28514 by Bingchang Hua, Chenzhou Lin, Cunhua Pan, Hong Re, Jiangzhou Wang, Taihao Zhang, Tian Qiu, Yongchao He.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Outdoor THz-band MIMO channel (a) measurement envir [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Linear PD fitted results. the subsequent MPC parameter estimation. Therefore, before extracting channel characteristics, it is necessary to examine the temporal stationarity of the measurement environment. In this section, we first verify the stationarity of the measurement environment and reveal the existence of an approximately linear PD. Based on this observation, we further propose a PD￾aware SAGE algo… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Validation of the proposed PD-aware SAGE algorithm. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: APDP evolution across TRx locations an average power gain of −48.528 dB, whereas the second￾order reflection path has an average power gain of −90.675 dB. Moreover, the spurious peaks near the path (SPNP) phenomenon has been discussed in detail in our previous work [10] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Measured and fitted results for (a) path loss and (b) sh [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Measured and fitted results for (a) delay spread and (b [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Measured and fitted results for KF. LoS path or a few strong specular components, resulting in a sparse multipath structure and a smaller RMS DS. The smaller DS can be attributed to the limited measurement area and the spatial correlation among VAA samples [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: CIR correlation coefficients across the Tx antenna ele [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Phase variations across the Tx antenna element index [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Power-delay-antenna element index profiles at (a) T [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Power-antenna element index profiles at (a) TRx1 (Lo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗

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