Scalable two-hop relaying for mmWave networks

Junquan Deng, Olav Tirkkonen, Tao Chen, Navid Nikaein

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    Abstract

    The performance of millimeter wave (mmWave) networks is limited by severe blocking effects. Mobile relaying exploiting possible two-hop line-of-sight connections is a strong candidate for coverage extension and consistent user experience in mmWave networks. Here, relaying based on opportunistic analog beamforming is investigated, and sets of fixed beams are used for cell discovery, relay discovery and data transmission. A low-complexity relay & beam discovery and selection protocol is considered. Communication performance and signaling overhead are estimated. To provide good relaying performance for cell-edge users without introducing high relaying overhead, a relay candidate set is selected by choosing a proper size, and suitable membership based on a utility function. Simulation results show that with relay candidate sets having a proper size, opportunistic two-hop mmWave relaying can achieve both high mean user performance and consistent user experience.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications
    PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-3873-6
    ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-3874-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 13 Jul 2017
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    EventEuropen Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2017 - Oulu, Finland
    Duration: 12 Jun 201715 Jun 2017

    Conference

    ConferenceEuropen Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2017
    Abbreviated titleEuCNC 2017
    Country/TerritoryFinland
    CityOulu
    Period12/06/1715/06/17

    Funding

    This work has been carried out in the framework of H2020 project ICT-671639 COHERENT, which is funded by the European Union.

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