  Substantial growth of demand for mobile data and rapidly increasing spread of
personal communication devices such as smart phones and tablets is the major
challenge faced by the mobile service providers in recent years. The allotted
spectrum for the currently operating mobile communication systems have been
saturated in the last few years by such a considerable rate that the future
fifth generation network would not be able to operate without applying new
frequencies. In accordance with the concept of 5G, millimeter wave frequency
band will also be used along with the currently used frequency bands. In this
particular spectrum however, a new and most significant attenuation factor due
to precipitation and atmospheric absorption is introduced. In this paper the
effects of precipitation, fog and atmospheric absorption on millimeter wave
propagation are investigated using MATLAB.
