Design and Analysis of Initial Access in Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 6409-6425

  Li, Yingzhe ^a   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a   Baccelli, Francois ^a   Novlan, Thomas D ^b   Zhang, Charlie Jianzhong ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b ATT Labs   (United States)

^c SAMSUNG RESEARCH AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Initial access; millimeter wave cellular networks; stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; DIRECTIONAL BEAMFORMING; INITIAL ACCESS; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); OMNIDIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; SUCCESS PROBABILITIES; SYSTEM-LEVEL ANALYSIS;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 85023634620     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2723468     Document Type: Article

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