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Millimetre-wave antennas and systems for the future 5G
Editorial of the special issue on Millimetre-Wave Antennas and Systems for the Future 5
Wearable Communications in 5G: Challenges and Enabling Technologies
As wearable devices become more ingrained in our daily lives, traditional
communication networks primarily designed for human being-oriented applications
are facing tremendous challenges. The upcoming 5G wireless system aims to
support unprecedented high capacity, low latency, and massive connectivity. In
this article, we evaluate key challenges in wearable communications. A
cloud/edge communication architecture that integrates the cloud radio access
network, software defined network, device to device communications, and
cloud/edge technologies is presented. Computation offloading enabled by this
multi-layer communications architecture can offload computation-excessive and
latency-stringent applications to nearby devices through device to device
communications or to nearby edge nodes through cellular or other wireless
technologies. Critical issues faced by wearable communications such as short
battery life, limited computing capability, and stringent latency can be
greatly alleviated by this cloud/edge architecture. Together with the presented
architecture, current transmission and networking technologies, including
non-orthogonal multiple access, mobile edge computing, and energy harvesting,
can greatly enhance the performance of wearable communication in terms of
spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, latency, and connectivity.Comment: This work has been accepted by IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazin
Device-to-Device Communications in the Millimeter Wave Band: A Novel Distributed Mechanism
In spite of its potential advantages, the large-scale implementation of the
device-to-device (D2D) communications has yet to be realized, mainly due to
severe interference and lack of enough bandwidth in the microwave (W)
band. Recently, exploiting the millimeter wave (mmW) band for D2D
communications has attracted considerable attention as a potential solution to
these challenges. However, its severe sensitivity to blockage along with its
directional nature make the utilization of the mmW band a challenging task as
it requires line-of-sight (LOS) link detection and careful beam alignment
between the D2D transceivers. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed
mechanism which enables the D2D devices to discover unblocked LOS links for the
mmW band communication. Moreover, as such LOS links are not always available,
the proposed mechanism allows the D2D devices to switch to the W band if
necessary. In addition, the proposed mechanism detects the direction of the LOS
links to perform the beam alignment. We have used tools from stochastic
geometry to evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanism in terms of the
signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) coverage probability. The
performance of the proposed algorithm is then compared to the one of the single
band (i.e., W/mmW) communication. The simulation results show that the
proposed mechanism considerably outperforms the single band communication.Comment: 6 Pages, 6 Figures, Accepted for presentation in Wireless
Telecommunication Symposium (WTS'18
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