The impact of multi-connectivity and handover constraints on millimeter wave and terahertz cellular networks

MF Özkoç, A Koutsaftis, R Kumar, P Liu… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communication over terahertz (THz) frequency bands is envisioned as the key
enabler of many applications and services offered in 6G networks. The abundantly available …

A tutorial on mathematical modeling of 5G/6G millimeter wave and terahertz cellular systems

D Moltchanov, E Sopin, V Begishev… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) radio access technologies (RAT) are
expected to become a critical part of the future cellular ecosystem providing an abundant …

User association and multi-connectivity strategies in joint terahertz and millimeter wave 6G systems

E Sopin, D Moltchanov, A Daraseliya… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) wireless access is considered as a next step towards 6G cellular systems.
By utilizing even higher frequency bands than 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) New Radio …

Coverage and capacity of terahertz cellular networks with joint transmission

NR Olson, JG Andrews… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Beamforming with high dimensional antenna arrays provides the gain needed to enable
high bandwidth communication in the sub-terahertz (THz) band. The resulting narrow …

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 …

Ergodic outage and capacity of terahertz systems under micromobility and blockage impairments

D Moltchanov, Y Gaidamaka… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) communications systems are expected to become a major enabling
technology at the air interface in sixth-generation (6G) cellular systems. However, utilizing …

Multi-band wireless networks: Architectures, challenges, and comparative analysis

MA Saeidi, H Tabassum… - IEEE Communications …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the vision of multi-band communication networks (MBN) in 6G, where
optical and terahertz (THz) transmissions will coexist with the conventional radio frequency …

THz communications for mobile heterogeneous networks

KMS Huq, JM Jornet, WH Gerstacker… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The nine articles in this special section focus on mobile 5G heterogeneous mobile
communication. It is widely agreed that B5G network should achieve greater system capacity …

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 …

Design and analysis of initial access in millimeter wave cellular networks

Y Li, JG Andrews, F Baccelli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Initial access is the process which allows a mobile user to first connect to a cellular network.
It consists of two main steps: cell search (CS) on the downlink and random access (RA) on …