TY - JOUR
T1 - 5G Millimeter-Wave and D2D Symbiosis
T2 - 60 GHz for Proximity-Based Services
AU - Sim, Gek Hong
AU - Loch, Adrian
AU - Asadi, Arash
AU - Mancuso, Vincenzo
AU - Widmer, Joerg
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The characteristics of two key communication technologies in 5G, namely, D2D and mmWave, are complementary. While D2D facilitates the communication of nearby mobile nodes, mmWave provides very high throughput short-range links by using carrier frequencies beyond 30 GHz, and reduces interference by using directional communication. This directly addresses two critical issues in cellular networks, namely, the increasing number of users and the high throughput requirements. In this article, we explore the above symbiosis of D2D and mmWave. More precisely, we integrate mmWave communications into the 3GPP framework for D2D communication, that is, ProSe. To this end, we design the message exchange among entities in the ProSe architecture to support the discovery, establishment, and maintenance of mmWave links. Further, we evaluate the performance of an mmWave D2D system for the case of a picocell operating in the 60 GHz band. We experimentally analyze the benefits of combining D2D and 60 GHz communication. Our results show that this combination improves performance in terms of throughput by up to 2.3 times.
AB - The characteristics of two key communication technologies in 5G, namely, D2D and mmWave, are complementary. While D2D facilitates the communication of nearby mobile nodes, mmWave provides very high throughput short-range links by using carrier frequencies beyond 30 GHz, and reduces interference by using directional communication. This directly addresses two critical issues in cellular networks, namely, the increasing number of users and the high throughput requirements. In this article, we explore the above symbiosis of D2D and mmWave. More precisely, we integrate mmWave communications into the 3GPP framework for D2D communication, that is, ProSe. To this end, we design the message exchange among entities in the ProSe architecture to support the discovery, establishment, and maintenance of mmWave links. Further, we evaluate the performance of an mmWave D2D system for the case of a picocell operating in the 60 GHz band. We experimentally analyze the benefits of combining D2D and 60 GHz communication. Our results show that this combination improves performance in terms of throughput by up to 2.3 times.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028764056&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2017.1600098
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2017.1600098
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028764056
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 24
SP - 140
EP - 145
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 4
M1 - 8014297
ER -