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In this paper, the reflection measurements of the parallel polarized wave are carried out under multiple incident angles and five kinds of materials in the D-band (110\u2013170 GHz). A modified reflection model with two parameters estimated by the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion is proposed. The results show that the measurements are in good agreement with the proposed model. Furthermore, a set of measured properties is demonstrated and it can be concluded that both the reflection coefficients and relative permittivity gradually decrease, whereas the surface roughness increases slightly with the increasing frequency, indicating a weak frequency dependence. Interestingly, the concrete board with high surface roughness, which means more power loss in a specular direction, has the lowest reflection loss at a certain frequency and incident angle. It implies that the reflection characteristics of indoor building materials are determined not only by surface roughness, but also by many other factors, such as relative permittivity, frequency, and incident angle. Our work suggests that the reflection measurements of indoor D-band wireless links have a prospective application for future indoor wireless communication systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22186908","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,13]],"date-time":"2022-09-13T22:37:28Z","timestamp":1663108648000},"page":"6908","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Reflection Characteristics Measurements of Indoor Wireless Link in D-Band"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7769-9353","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mingxu","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanyi","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Weiping","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5641-4240","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junjie","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chengzhen","family":"Bian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinyi","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wireless Network RAN Research Department, Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wireless Network RAN Research Department, Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhimeng","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wireless Network RAN Research Department, Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jianjun","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Science and Engineering, and the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Barnett, T., Jain, S., Andra, U., and Khurana, T. 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