153 research outputs found
Effects of 3D Deployments on Interference and SINR in 5G New Radio Systems
Lately, the extremely high frequency (EHF) band has become one of the factors enabling fifth-generation (5G) mobile cellular technologies. By offering large bandwidth, New Radio (NR) systems operating in the lower part of EHF band, called millimeter waves (mmWave), may satisfy the extreme requirements of future 5G networks in terms of both data transfer rate and latency at the air interface.
The use of highly directional antennas in prospective mmWave-based NR communications systems raises an important question: are conventional two-dimensional (2D) cellular network modeling techniques suitable for 5G NR systems? To address this question, we introduced a novel, three-dimensional framework for evaluating the performance of emerging mmWave band wireless networks. The proposed framework explicitly takes into account the blockage effects of propagating mmWave radiation, the vertical and planar directivities at transceiver antennas, and the randomness of user equipment (UE), base station (BS), and blocker heights. The model allows for different levels of accuracy, encompassing a number of models with different levels of computational complexity as special cases. Although the main metric of interest in this thesis is the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), the model can be extended to obtain the Shannon rate of the channel under investigation.
The proposed model was numerically evaluated in different deployment cases and communication scenarios with a wide range of system parameters. We found that randomness of UE and BS heights and vertical directionality of the mmWave antennas are essential for accurate evaluation of system performance. We also showed that the results of traditional 2D models are too optimistic and greatly overestimate the actual SINR. In contrast, fixed-height models that ignore the impact of height on the probability of exposure to interference are too pessimistic. Furthermore, we evaluated the models that provide the best trade-off between computational complexity and accuracy in specific scenarios and provided recommendations regarding their use for practical assessment of mmWave-based NR systems
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Modeling and analyzing the evolution of cellular networks using stochastic geometry
The increasing complexity of cellular network due to its continuous evolution has made the conventional system level simulations time consuming and cost prohibitive. By modeling base station (BS) and user locations as spatial point processes, stochastic geometry has recently been recognized as a tractable and efficient analytical tool to quantify key performance metrics. The goal of this dissertation is to leverage stochastic geometry to develop an accurate spatial point process model for the conventional homogeneous macro cellular network, and to address the design and analysis challenges for the emerging cellular networks that will explore new spectrum for cellular communications. First, this dissertation proposes to use the repulsive determinantal point processes (DPPs) as an accurate model for macro BS locations in a cellular network. Based on three unique computational properties of the DPPs, the exact expressions of several fundamental performance metrics for cellular networks with DPP configured BSs are analytically derived and numerically evaluated. Using hypothesis testing for various performance metrics of interest, the DPPs are validated to be more accurate than the Poisson point process (PPP) or the deterministic grid model. Then the focus of this dissertation shifts to emerging networks that exploit new spectrum for cellular communications. One promising option is to allow the centrally scheduled cellular system to also access the unlicensed spectrum, wherein a carrier sensing multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol is usually used, as in Wi-Fi. A stochastic geometry-based analytical framework is developed to characterize the performance metrics for neighboring Wi-Fi and cellular networks under various coexistence mechanisms. In order to guarantee fair coexistence with Wi-Fi, it is shown that the cellular network needs to adopt either a discontinuous transmission pattern or its own CSMA/CA like mechanisms. Next, this dissertation considers cellular networks operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, where directional beamforming is required to establish viable connections. Therefore, a major design challenge is to learn the necessary beamforming directions through the procedures that establish the initial connection between the mobile user and the network. These procedures are referred to as initial access, wherein cell search on the downlink and random access on the uplink are the two major steps. Stochastic geometry is again utilized to develop a unified analytical framework for three directional initial access protocols under a high mobility scenario where users and random blockers are moving with high speed. The expected delay for a user to succeed in initial access, and the average user-perceived downlink throughput that accounts for the initial access overhead, are derived for all three protocols. In particular, the protocol that has low beam-sweeping overhead during cell search is found to achieve a good trade-off between the initial access delay and user-perceived throughput performance. Finally, in contrast to the high mobility scenario for initial access, the directional cell search delay in a slow mobile network is analyzed. Specifically, the BS and user locations are fixed for long period of time, and therefore a strong temporal correlation for SINR is experienced. A closed-form expression for the expected cell search delay is derived, indicating that the expected cell search delay is infinite for noise-limited networks (e.g., mmWave) whenever the non-line-of-sight path loss exponent is larger than 2. By contrast, the expected cell search delay for interference-limited networks is proved to be infinite when the number of beams to search at the BS is smaller than a certain threshold, and finite otherwise.Electrical and Computer Engineerin
Ondas milimétricas e MIMO massivo para otimização da capacidade e cobertura de redes heterogeneas de 5G
Today's Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) networks cannot support
the exponential growth in mobile traffic forecast for the next decade. By
2020, according to Ericsson, 6 billion mobile subscribers worldwide are projected
to generate 46 exabytes of mobile data traffic monthly from 24 billion
connected devices, smartphones and short-range Internet of Things (IoT)
devices being the key prosumers. In response, 5G networks are foreseen
to markedly outperform legacy 4G systems. Triggered by the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) under the IMT-2020 network initiative, 5G
will support three broad categories of use cases: enhanced mobile broadband
(eMBB) for multi-Gbps data rate applications; ultra-reliable and low latency
communications (URLLC) for critical scenarios; and massive machine
type communications (mMTC) for massive connectivity. Among the several
technology enablers being explored for 5G, millimeter-wave (mmWave)
communication, massive MIMO antenna arrays and ultra-dense small cell
networks (UDNs) feature as the dominant technologies. These technologies
in synergy are anticipated to provide the 1000_ capacity increase for 5G
networks (relative to 4G) through the combined impact of large additional
bandwidth, spectral efficiency (SE) enhancement and high frequency reuse,
respectively. However, although these technologies can pave the way towards
gigabit wireless, there are still several challenges to solve in terms of
how we can fully harness the available bandwidth efficiently through appropriate
beamforming and channel modeling approaches. In this thesis, we
investigate the system performance enhancements realizable with mmWave
massive MIMO in 5G UDN and cellular infrastructure-to-everything (C-I2X)
application scenarios involving pedestrian and vehicular users. As a critical
component of the system-level simulation approach adopted in this thesis,
we implemented 3D channel models for the accurate characterization of the
wireless channels in these scenarios and for realistic performance evaluation.
To address the hardware cost, complexity and power consumption of the
massive MIMO architectures, we propose a novel generalized framework for
hybrid beamforming (HBF) array structures. The generalized model reveals
the opportunities that can be harnessed with the overlapped subarray structures
for a balanced trade-o_ between SE and energy efficiently (EE) of 5G
networks. The key results in this investigation show that mmWave massive
MIMO can deliver multi-Gbps rates for 5G whilst maintaining energy-efficient operation of the network.As redes LTE-A atuais não são capazes de suportar o crescimento exponencial
de tráfego que está previsto para a próxima década. De acordo
com a previsão da Ericsson, espera-se que em 2020, a nível global, 6 mil
milhões de subscritores venham a gerar mensalmente 46 exa bytes de tráfego
de dados a partir de 24 mil milhões de dispositivos ligados à rede móvel,
sendo os telefones inteligentes e dispositivos IoT de curto alcance os principais
responsáveis por tal nível de tráfego. Em resposta a esta exigência,
espera-se que as redes de 5a geração (5G) tenham um desempenho substancialmente
superior às redes de 4a geração (4G) atuais. Desencadeado pelo
UIT (União Internacional das Telecomunicações) no âmbito da iniciativa
IMT-2020, o 5G irá suportar três grandes tipos de utilizações: banda larga
móvel capaz de suportar aplicações com débitos na ordem de vários Gbps;
comunicações de baixa latência e alta fiabilidade indispensáveis em cenários
de emergência; comunicações massivas máquina-a-máquina para conectividade
generalizada. Entre as várias tecnologias capacitadoras que estão a ser
exploradas pelo 5G, as comunicações através de ondas milimétricas, os agregados
MIMO massivo e as redes celulares ultradensas (RUD) apresentam-se
como sendo as tecnologias fundamentais. Antecipa-se que o conjunto
destas tecnologias venha a fornecer às redes 5G um aumento de capacidade
de 1000x através da utilização de maiores larguras de banda, melhoria da
eficiência espectral, e elevada reutilização de frequências respetivamente.
Embora estas tecnologias possam abrir caminho para as redes sem fios
com débitos na ordem dos gigabits, existem ainda vários desafios que têm
que ser resolvidos para que seja possível aproveitar totalmente a largura de
banda disponível de maneira eficiente utilizando abordagens de formatação
de feixe e de modelação de canal adequadas. Nesta tese investigamos a
melhoria de desempenho do sistema conseguida através da utilização de
ondas milimétricas e agregados MIMO massivo em cenários de redes celulares
ultradensas de 5a geração e em cenários 'infraestrutura celular-para-qualquer
coisa' (do inglês: cellular infrastructure-to-everything) envolvendo
utilizadores pedestres e veiculares. Como um componente fundamental das
simulações de sistema utilizadas nesta tese é o canal de propagação, implementamos modelos de canal tridimensional (3D) para caracterizar de
forma precisa o canal de propagação nestes cenários e assim conseguir uma
avaliação de desempenho mais condizente com a realidade. Para resolver os
problemas associados ao custo do equipamento, complexidade e consumo
de energia das arquiteturas MIMO massivo, propomos um modelo inovador
de agregados com formatação de feixe híbrida. Este modelo genérico revela
as oportunidades que podem ser aproveitadas através da sobreposição
de sub-agregados no sentido de obter um compromisso equilibrado entre
eficiência espectral (ES) e eficiência energética (EE) nas redes 5G. Os principais
resultados desta investigação mostram que a utilização conjunta de
ondas milimétricas e de agregados MIMO massivo possibilita a obtenção, em
simultâneo, de taxas de transmissão na ordem de vários Gbps e a operação
de rede de forma energeticamente eficiente.Programa Doutoral em Telecomunicaçõe
State-of-the-art assessment of 5G mmWave communications
Deliverable D2.1 del proyecto 5GWirelessMain objective of the European 5Gwireless project, which is part of the H2020 Marie Slodowska-
Curie ITN (Innovative Training Networks) program resides in the training and involvement of young
researchers in the elaboration of future mobile communication networks, focusing on innovative
wireless technologies, heterogeneous network architectures, new topologies (including ultra-dense
deployments), and appropriate tools. The present Document D2.1 is the first deliverable of Work-
Package 2 (WP2) that is specifically devoted to the modeling of the millimeter-wave (mmWave)
propagation channels, and development of appropriate mmWave beamforming and signal
processing techniques. Deliver D2.1 gives a state-of-the-art on the mmWave channel measurement,
characterization and modeling; existing antenna array technologies, channel estimation and
precoding algorithms; proposed deployment and networking techniques; some performance
studies; as well as a review on the evaluation and analysis toolsPostprint (published version
Limiting Performance of Millimeter-Wave Communications in the Presence of a 3D Random Waypoint Mobility Model
This paper proposes a mathematical framework for evaluating the limiting capacity of a millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication involving a mobile user (MU) and a cellular base station. The investigation is realized considering a threedimensional (3D) space in which the random waypoint mobility model is used to probabilistically identify the location of the MUs. Besides, the analysis is developed accounting for path-loss attenuation, directional antenna gains, shadowing, and modulation scheme. Closed-form formulas for the received signal power, the Shannon capacity, and the bit error rate (BER) are obtained for both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-LoS scenarios in the presence of a noise-limited operating regime. The conceived theoretical model is firstly checked by Monte Carlo validations, and then employed to explore the influence of the antenna gain and of the cell radius on the capacity and on the BER of a fifth-generation (5G) link in a 3D environment, taking into account both the 28 and 73 GHz mmWave bands
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Analysis of millimeter wave and massive MIMO cellular networks
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are promising techniques to increase system capacity in 5G cellular networks. The prior frameworks for conventional cellular systems do not directly apply to analyze mmWave or massive MIMO networks, as (i) mmWave cellular networks differ in the different propagation conditions and hardware constraints; and (ii) with a order of magnitude more antennas than conventional multi-user MIMO systems, massive MIMO systems will be operated in time-division duplex (TDD) mode, which renders pilot contamination a primary limiting factor. In this dissertation, I develop stochastic geometry frameworks to analyze the system-level performance of mmWave, sub-6 GHz massive MIMO, and mmWave massive MIMO cellular networks. The proposed models capture the key features of each technique, and allow for tractable signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and rate analyses. In the first contribution, I develop an mmWave cellular network model that incorporates the blockage effect and directional beamforming, and analyze the SINR and rate distributions as functions of the base station density, blockage parameters, and antenna geometry. The analytical results demonstrate that with a sufficiently dense base station deployment, mmWave cellular networks are capable to achieve comparable SINR coverage and much higher rates than conventional networks. In my second contribution, I analyze the uplink SINR and rate in sub-6 GHz massive MIMO networks with the incorporation of pilot contamination and fractional power control. Based on the analysis, I show scaling laws between the number of antennas and scheduled users per cell that maintain the uplink signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) distributions are different for maximum ratio combining (MRC) and zero-forcing (ZF) receivers. In my third contribution, I extend the sub-6 GHz massive MIMO model to mmWave frequencies, by incorporating key mmWave features. I leverage the proposed model to investigate the asymptotic SINR performance, when the number of antennas goes to infinity. Numerical results show that mmWave massive MIMO outperforms its sub-6 GHz counterpart in cell throughput with a dense base station deployment, while the reverse can be true with a low base station density.Electrical and Computer Engineerin
Aerial Access and Backhaul in mmWave B5G Systems: Performance Dynamics and Optimization
The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based communication in
millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies to provide on-demand radio access is a
promising approach to improve capacity and coverage in beyond-5G (B5G) systems.
There are several design aspects to be addressed when optimizing for the
deployment of such UAV base stations. As traffic demand of mobile users varies
across time and space, dynamic algorithms that correspondingly adjust the UAV
locations are essential to maximize performance. In addition to careful
tracking of spatio-temporal user/traffic activity, such optimization needs to
account for realistic backhaul constraints. In this work, we first review the
latest 3GPP activities behind integrated access and backhaul system design,
support for UAV base stations, and mmWave radio relaying functionality. We then
compare static and mobile UAV-based communication options under practical
assumptions on the mmWave system layout, mobility and clusterization of users,
antenna array geometry, and dynamic backhauling. We demonstrate that leveraging
the UAV mobility to serve moving users may improve the overall system
performance even in the presence of backhaul capacity limitations.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. This work has been accepted to IEEE
Communications Magazine, 201
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