Millimeter-Wave Cellular Wireless Networks: Potentials and Challenges
05 Feb 2014-Vol. 102, Iss: 3, pp 366-385
TL;DR: Measurements and capacity studies are surveyed to assess mmW technology with a focus on small cell deployments in urban environments and it is shown that mmW systems can offer more than an order of magnitude increase in capacity over current state-of-the-art 4G cellular networks at current cell densities.
Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmW) frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz are a new frontier for cellular communication that offers the promise of orders of magnitude greater bandwidths combined with further gains via beamforming and spatial multiplexing from multielement antenna arrays. This paper surveys measurements and capacity studies to assess this technology with a focus on small cell deployments in urban environments. The conclusions are extremely encouraging; measurements in New York City at 28 and 73 GHz demonstrate that, even in an urban canyon environment, significant non-line-of-sight (NLOS) outdoor, street-level coverage is possible up to approximately 200 m from a potential low-power microcell or picocell base station. In addition, based on statistical channel models from these measurements, it is shown that mmW systems can offer more than an order of magnitude increase in capacity over current state-of-the-art 4G cellular networks at current cell densities. Cellular systems, however, will need to be significantly redesigned to fully achieve these gains. Specifically, the requirement of highly directional and adaptive transmissions, directional isolation between links, and significant possibilities of outage have strong implications on multiple access, channel structure, synchronization, and receiver design. To address these challenges, the paper discusses how various technologies including adaptive beamforming, multihop relaying, heterogeneous network architectures, and carrier aggregation can be leveraged in the mmW context.
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TL;DR: This paper presents a simplified approach for sidelobe reduction by stacking multiple uniform linear arrays of different size to reduce the sidelobes across the horizontal plane based on the relation between the number of antenna elements and the directions of null and sidelobe maxima.
Abstract: The performance of multi-user millimeter-wave (mmW) systems is limited by relatively high sidelobe levels (SLLs) of antenna arrays. Per-antenna amplitude control can be used to adjust the amplitudes to reduce the SLL, but the reduction is often achieved at the cost of reduced transmitted power. Large two-dimensional (2D) antenna panels used in mmW phased arrays, however, allow the 2D antenna configuration to be reconfigured to reduce the SLL. In this paper, we present a simplified approach for sidelobe reduction by stacking multiple uniform linear arrays of different size to reduce the sidelobes across the horizontal plane. The approach is based on the relation between the number of antenna elements and the directions of null and sidelobe maxima. The sidelobe reduction is demonstrated by both simulations and measurements. The measurements are carried out in an anechoic chamber at 28 GHz center frequency using a 100 MHz wide modulated 5GNR waveform.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate a 30 GHz oscillator with a record 1/f 3 PN corner of ∼100 kHz, which is an order-of-magnitude better than all previous mmW oscillators.
Abstract: The fifth generation (5G) cellular communications in millimeter-wave (mmW) bands (e.g. 28GHz) place very tough requirements on phase noise (PN) of local oscillators (LO). However, in the advanced CMOS technology (e.g., 28nm, 16nm, 7nm, ...), the intrinsic 1/f current noise of MOS transistor is increasingly worsening. It could adversely affect the PN of the LO significantly, especially the flicker PN, leading to a very high 1/f 3 PN corner (usually exceeding 1MHz), which is difficult to be attenuated by a mmW PLL. On the other hand, the current literature is full of conflicts and confusing theories about the flicker noise upconversion, with a large number of ambiguities in the RF range, let alone in the mmW range. Thus, lowering the 1/f 3 PN and figuring out its actual mechanisms are highly desired for 5G mmW communications. In this thesis, we demonstrate, for the first time ever, a 30 GHz oscillator with a record 1/f 3 PN corner of ∼100 kHz, which is an order-of-magnitude better than all previous mmW oscillators. Thanks to the special considerations in the common-mode (CM) return path, 2nd harmonic resonance is accurately implemented in this 30GHz oscillator. Firstly, we numerically verify and illustrate how the 2nd harmonic resonance could reduce the 1/f 3 PN, featuring the proposed simulation techniques of the 1/f noise modulation function (NMF) (i.e., I1/f,rms(t)) and impulse sensitivity function (ISF) (i.e., hDS(t)) (based on a periodic transfer function (PXF)). To physically explain the complex process of flicker noise modulation, a new 1/f model is introduced, considering both a carrier number fluctuation (CNF) and a correlated mobility fluctuation (CMF). Further, we identify and numerically verify a new flicker noise reduction mechanism based on narrowing of a conduction angle, which has been presented in the literature but
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider various resource allocation methods for different radio access network (RAN) architecture; several authors have implemented some techniques and algorithms to achieve better resource allocation with the help of existing literature survey, explore ways to allocate the radio resources for next generation wireless communication.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have emphasized on the perspectives of the Terahertz channel modeling in Internet of multimedia nano things (IoMNT) networks and a modulation technique targeting body-centric network is discussed.
Abstract: In this paper, the authors have emphasized on the perspectives of the Terahertz channel modeling in Internet of multimedia nano things (IoMNT) networks. A modulation technique targeting body-centric network is discussed. An analogy of a real Terahertz antenna is developed within a terahertz multi-layer modelling channel for a human skin tissue. As a result, the investigation of how signals at THz frequency band interact and transmit within the skin biomaterial. The human skin model used to collect data was selected to have four layers: epidermis, dermis, blood, and hypodermis, with the depth of the layers varying between normal human body values. It is revealed from the literature that the frequency and content have a substantial impact on path failure. The estimated path loss could thus differ considerably, but for a human skin model with depths of 0.21 mm, 1.23 mm, 1.38 mm, and 3.76 mm, the frequencies of 0.5-1.5 THz at the end distance resulted in a path loss estimated about 250-350 dB.
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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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...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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