Improved handover through dual connectivity in 5G mmWave mobile networks

M Polese, M Giordani, M Mezzavilla… - IEEE Journal on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The millimeter wave (mmWave) bands offer the possibility of orders of magnitude greater
throughput for fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. However, since mmWave signals are …

An efficient uplink multi-connectivity scheme for 5G millimeter-wave control plane applications

M Giordani, M Mezzavilla, S Rangan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude that
increases in capacity for next-generation cellular systems. However, links in mm-wave …

Managing vertical handovers in millimeter wave heterogeneous networks

S Zang, W Bao, PL Yeoh, B Vucetic… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A promising solution to address the spectrum shortage in 5G cellular systems is the
deployment of millimeter wave (mmWave) heterogeneous networks (HetNets). However, a …

Millimeter-wave evolution for 5G cellular networks

K Sakaguchi, GK Tran, H Shimodaira… - IEICE Transactions …, 2015 - search.ieice.org
Triggered by the explosion of mobile traffic, 5G (5th Generation) cellular network requires
evolution to increase the system rate 1000 times higher than the current systems in 10 years …

Caching meets millimeter wave communications for enhanced mobility management in 5G networks

O Semiari, W Saad, M Bennis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the most promising approaches to overcoming the uncertainty of millimeter wave
(mm-wave) communications is to deploy dual-mode small base stations (SBSs) that …

Millimeter wave cellular networks: A MAC layer perspective

H Shokri-Ghadikolaei, C Fischione… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band is seen as a key enabler of multigigabit
wireless access in future cellular networks. In order to overcome the propagation …

A tutorial on beam management for 3GPP NR at mmWave frequencies

M Giordani, M Polese, A Roy… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the availability of huge bandwidths to
provide unprecedented data rates to next-generation cellular mobile terminals. However …

Achieving ultra-low latency in 5G millimeter wave cellular networks

R Ford, M Zhang, M Mezzavilla, S Dutta… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The IMT 2020 requirements of 20 Gb/s peak data rate and 1 ms latency present significant
engineering challenges for the design of 5G cellular systems. Systems that make use of the …

On the degree of multi-connectivity in 5G millimeter-wave cellular urban deployments

M Gapeyenko, V Petrov, D Moltchanov… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Outage event caused by dynamic link blockage at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies is
a challenging problem for cell-edge users. To address it, 3GPP is currently working on multi …

A survey of millimeter wave communications (mmWave) for 5G: opportunities and challenges

Y Niu, Y Li, D Jin, L Su, AV Vasilakos - Wireless networks, 2015 - Springer
With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, the fifth generation (5G) mobile network
would exploit the enormous amount of spectrum in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to …