Millimeter-Wave Cellular Wireless Networks: Potentials and Challenges
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...It is noted that mmWave propagation is quasi-optical and suffers from high path losses [8]....
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...Both predicted azimuth and elevation spreads indicates the presence of rich multipath clusters in mmWave propagation, which confirms the finding in [2], [3], [5] that mmWave signals will propagate via several NLOS paths rather than a small number of LOS links....
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...mmWave bands will play an important role in beyond 4G and 5G cellular systems [5]....
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...This is actually a better, more physically accurate model for propagation than common models used in 3GPP (See [1], [2], [5])....
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...The significant path loss of mmWave channels is a major obstacle that makes seamless communication over the mmWave band difficult [4]–[6]....
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...According to [1], [6], the received energy is mostly concentrated in a few dominant paths including the line of sight path since many other paths experience high attenuation....
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...From a wireless networking perspective, multitier cooperative cell deployment, combined with LSAA-based small cells, is expected to be a key enabler to vastly boost 5G mmWave radio network coverage and capacity with lower energy consumption and networking costs [10]....
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..., business centers, office buildings, large-scale stadiums, and train stations) and improve the quality of service (QoS) [3, 10]....
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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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