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Coverage Evaluation of mmWave Small Cell in Outdoor Environment  

Nguyen, Thanh Ngoc (서울과학기술대학교 전기정보공학과)
Jeon, Taehyun (서울과학기술대학교 전기정보공학과)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.12, no.4, 2017 , pp. 162-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
In an effort to compensate the rising of the data throughput demand nowadays, there have been many research works to optimize the radio resource and increase the capacity of the network. At the present, small cell network, mmWave band and beamforming technology are leading the trend and becoming the core solutions of the fifth generation (5G) cellular networks. Since the propagation characteristics of radio wave in the mmWave band is quite different from the conventional bands, the communication systems which work in these bands have to be redesigned. In this paper, a 3D simulation model is discussed for cellular network at 60 GHz in outdoor environments. Coverage analysis and system performance is carried out for a small cell system in the typical urban environment including street canyon simulation scenario. In addition, the beamforming technique is considered to evaluate the throughput improvement. Simulation results show that the mmWave small cell systems is expected to be one of the major candidate technologies to satisfy the requirements of 5G in terms of data rate.
Keywords
Small cell; mmWave; Beamforming; Throughput; Coverage analysis;
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