End-to-end simulation of 5G mmWave networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 2237-2263

  Mezzavilla, Marco ^a   Zhang, Menglei ^a   Polese, Michele ^b   Ford, Russell ^a,c   Dutta, Sourjya ^a   Rangan, Sundeep ^a   Zorzi, Michele ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SAMSUNG RESEARCH AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

5G; cellular; channel; handover; MAC; mmWave; multi connectivity; ns 3; PHY; propagation; simulation

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RAY TRACING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

3GPP; CELLULAR; CHANNEL; HANDOVER; MILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY; MM-WAVE; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-CONNECTIVITY; SIMULATION; TUTORIALS;

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

EID: 85045766978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2828880     Document Type: Article

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