TY - GEN
T1 - 5G MmWave module for the ns-3 network simulator
AU - Mezzavilla, Marco
AU - Dutta, Sourjya
AU - Zhang, Menglei
AU - Akdeniz, Mustafa Riza
AU - Rangan, Sundeep
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/11/2
Y1 - 2015/11/2
N2 - The increasing demand of data, along with the spectrum scarcity, are motivating a urgent shift towards exploiting new bands. This is the main reason behind identifying mmWaves as the key disruptive enabling technology for 5G cellular networks. Indeed, utilizing new bands means facing new challenges; in this context, they are mainly related to the radio propagation, which is shorter in range and more sensitive to obstacles. The resulting key aspects that need to be taken into account when designing mmWave cellular systems are directionality and link intermittency. The lack of network level results motivated this work, which aims at providing the first of a kind open source mmWave framework, based on the network simulator ns-3. The main focus of this work is the modeling of customizable channel, physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers for mmWave systems. The overall design and architecture of the model are discussed in details. Finally, the validity of our proposed framework is corroborated through the simulation of a simple scenario.
AB - The increasing demand of data, along with the spectrum scarcity, are motivating a urgent shift towards exploiting new bands. This is the main reason behind identifying mmWaves as the key disruptive enabling technology for 5G cellular networks. Indeed, utilizing new bands means facing new challenges; in this context, they are mainly related to the radio propagation, which is shorter in range and more sensitive to obstacles. The resulting key aspects that need to be taken into account when designing mmWave cellular systems are directionality and link intermittency. The lack of network level results motivated this work, which aims at providing the first of a kind open source mmWave framework, based on the network simulator ns-3. The main focus of this work is the modeling of customizable channel, physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers for mmWave systems. The overall design and architecture of the model are discussed in details. Finally, the validity of our proposed framework is corroborated through the simulation of a simple scenario.
KW - 5G
KW - Cellular
KW - Channel
KW - MAC
KW - MmWave
KW - PHY
KW - Propagation
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U2 - 10.1145/2811587.2811619
DO - 10.1145/2811587.2811619
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949514724
T3 - MSWiM 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
SP - 283
EP - 290
BT - MSWiM 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2015
Y2 - 2 November 2015 through 6 November 2015
ER -