5G New Radio (NR) systems promise to expand offered services to enable industrial
automation scenarios. To enable ultra-low latency at the air interface and to exploit spatial
redundancy for applications such as synchronization and motion control, user equipment
(UE) will naturally require device-to-device (D2D) and base station (BS) to UE
communications and directional transmissions provided by millimeter wave (mmWave)
frequencies. However, the performance of such systems is affected by the blockage …