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The Impact of Antenna Height Difference on the Performance of Downlink Cellular Networks
Capable of significantly reducing cell size and enhancing spatial reuse,
network densification is shown to be one of the most dominant approaches to
expand network capacity. Due to the scarcity of available spectrum resources,
nevertheless, the over-deployment of network infrastructures, e.g., cellular
base stations (BSs), would strengthen the inter-cell interference as well, thus
in turn deteriorating the system performance. On this account, we investigate
the performance of downlink cellular networks in terms of user coverage
probability (CP) and network spatial throughput (ST), aiming to shed light on
the limitation of network densification. Notably, it is shown that both CP and
ST would be degraded and even diminish to be zero when BS density is
sufficiently large, provided that practical antenna height difference (AHD)
between BSs and users is involved to characterize pathloss. Moreover, the
results also reveal that the increase of network ST is at the expense of the
degradation of CP. Therefore, to balance the tradeoff between user and network
performance, we further study the critical density, under which ST could be
maximized under the CP constraint. Through a special case study, it follows
that the critical density is inversely proportional to the square of AHD. The
results in this work could provide helpful guideline towards the application of
network densification in the next-generation wireless networks.Comment: conference submission - Mar. 201
Scaling Laws for Infrastructure Single and Multihop Wireless Networks in Wideband Regimes
With millimeter wave bands emerging as a strong candidate for 5G cellular
networks, next-generation systems may be in a unique position where spectrum is
plentiful. To assess the potential value of this spectrum, this paper derives
scaling laws on the per mobile downlink feasible rate with large bandwidth and
number of nodes, for both Infrastructure Single Hop (ISH) and Infrastructure
Multi-Hop (IMH) architectures. It is shown that, for both cases, there exist
\emph{critical bandwidth scalings} above which increasing the bandwidth no
longer increases the feasible rate per node. These critical thresholds coincide
exactly with the bandwidths where, for each architecture, the network
transitions from being degrees-of-freedom-limited to power-limited. For ISH,
this critical bandwidth threshold is lower than IMH when the number of users
per base station grows with network size. This result suggests that multi-hop
transmissions may be necessary to fully exploit large bandwidth degrees of
freedom in deployments with growing number of users per cell.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Spatial networks with wireless applications
Many networks have nodes located in physical space, with links more common
between closely spaced pairs of nodes. For example, the nodes could be wireless
devices and links communication channels in a wireless mesh network. We
describe recent work involving such networks, considering effects due to the
geometry (convex,non-convex, and fractal), node distribution,
distance-dependent link probability, mobility, directivity and interference.Comment: Review article- an amended version with a new title from the origina
Understanding Noise and Interference Regimes in 5G Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks
With the severe spectrum shortage in conventional cellular bands,
millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have been attracting growing attention for
next-generation micro- and picocellular wireless networks. A fundamental and
open question is whether mmWave cellular networks are likely to be noise- or
interference-limited. Identifying in which regime a network is operating is
critical for the design of MAC and physical-layer procedures and to provide
insights on how transmissions across cells should be coordinated to cope with
interference. This work uses the latest measurement-based statistical channel
models to accurately assess the Interference-to-Noise Ratio (INR) in a wide
range of deployment scenarios. In addition to cell density, we also study
antenna array size and antenna patterns, whose effects are critical in the
mmWave regime. The channel models also account for blockage, line-of-sight and
non-line-of-sight regimes as well as local scattering, that significantly
affect the level of spatial isolation
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