Millimeter-Wave Cellular Wireless Networks: Potentials and Challenges
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...However, several research challenges including propagation-related issues such as shadowing and mobility aspects, hardware imperfections like power amplifier non-linearity, and the need of high processing power and large antenna arrays have to be addressed to enable the operation of future cellular communications in mmWave bands [8]....
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...In addition, several survey and overview papers exist in the area of 5G enabling technologies such as massive MIMO [7], [59]–[61], mmWave [7], [8], [62], Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) [63], [64], cellular and heterogeneous networks [65]–[67], Internet of Things (IoT) [70]–[73], Machine to Machine (M2M) communication [68]–[70] and Device to Device (D2D) communication [74]....
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...Moreover, recent works reveal that LoS (or near-LoS) signal propagation is mostly relied on in massive MIMO [22]–[24] or millimeterwave communications [6], [25], [26]....
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...Also, the human body and many outdoor materials being very reflective, allow them to be important scatterers for mmW propagation [28], [30]....
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...However, these measurements were performed in an outdoor campus setting with much lower building density and greater opportunities for LOS connectivity than would be found in a typical urban deployment....
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...Despite the potential of mmW cellular systems, there are a number of key challenges to realizing the vision of cellular networks in these bands: • Range and directional communication: Friis’ transmis- sion law [54] states that the free space omnidirectional path loss grows with the square of the…...
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...In both 28- and 73-GHz measurements, each point was classified as either being in a NLOS or LOS situation, based on a manual classification made at the time of the measurements; see [26] and [28]–[33]....
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...• Empirical NYC: These curves are based on the omnidirectional path loss predicted by our linear model (1) for the mmW channel with the parameters from Table 1, as derived from the directional measurements in [26]....
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...Details of the measurements can be found in [26], [28]– [33], [81]....
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...This tremendous potential has led to considerable recent interest in mmW cellular both in industry [7]–[9], [18], [19] and academia [20]–[26], with a growing belief that mmW bands will play a significant role in beyond 4G and 5G cellular systems [27]....
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...In particular, we survey our own measurements [26], [28]–[33] made in New York City (NYC) in both 28- and 73-GHz bands and the statistical models for the channels developed in [34]....
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...These multiple antenna systems can be used to form very high gain, electrically steerable arrays, fabricated at the base station (BS), in the skin of a cellphone, or even within a chip [6], [10]–[17]....
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...Heterogeneous networks, or HetNets, have been one of the most active research areas in cellular standards bodies in the last five years [45], [48], [67], [68], with the main focus being intercell interference coordination and load balancing....
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