LTE/WiGig RAN-level interworking architecture for 5G millimeter-wave heterogeneous networks

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E98B, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1957-1968

  Peng, Hailan ^a   Yamamoto, Toshiaki ^a   Suegara, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

5G; 60 GHz WiGig; Beamforming; C U plane splitting; Extended user control plane; LTE; Millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY BANDS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MILLIMETER WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIO; RADIO COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

5G; 60 GHZ WIGIG; EXTENDED USER/CONTROL PLANE; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET); INTERWORKING ARCHITECTURE; LTE; MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER; RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84942931621     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E98.B.1957     Document Type: Article

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