MAC Layer Frame Design for Millimeter Wave Cellular System

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作者
Dutta, Sourjya [1 ]
Mezzavilla, Marco [1 ]
Ford, Russell [1 ]
Zhang, Menglei [1 ]
Rangan, Sundeep [1 ]
Zorzi, Michele [2 ]
机构
[1] NYU, NYU Wireless, Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
[2] Univ Padua, I-35100 Padua, Italy
来源
2016 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS (EUCNC) | 2016年
关键词
5G cellular systems; millimeter wave; MAC design; frame structure; radio resource utilization; control overhead; beamforming; power consumption; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE;
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TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0809 ;
摘要
The MAC layer will need to be significantly redesigned to support the highly directional transmissions, very low latencies and high peak rates featured in 5G millimeter wave communication. This paper analyzes the frame structure and beamforming choices for mmWave MAC layer design. In this work we illustrate simple analytical methods to quantify the resource utilization and physical layer control overhead for millimeter wave cellular systems. It is observed that certain flexible frame design choices may lead to dramatically improved resource utilization under various traffic patterns. Moreover, it is shown that fully digital beamforming architectures offer significantly lower overhead than analog and hybrid beamforming under comparable power budgets.
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页码:117 / 121
页数:5
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