TY - GEN
T1 - A 3GPP NR compliant beam management framework to simulate end-to-end mmwave networks
AU - Herranz, Carlos
AU - Martín-Sacristán, David
AU - Zhang, Menglei
AU - Rangan, Sundeep
AU - Mezzavilla, Marco
AU - Monserrat, Jose F.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its support. This work is supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain under Grant No.: TEC2014-60258-C2-1-R and by the European FEDER funds.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/10/25
Y1 - 2018/10/25
N2 - The advent of the next iteration of mobile and wireless communication standards, the so called 5G, is already a reality. 3GPP released in December 2017 the first set of specifications of the 5G New Radio (NR), which introduced important innovations with respect to legacy networks. One of the main novelties is the use of very-high frequencies in the radio access, which requires highly-directional transmissions or beams to overcome the severe propagation losses. Therefore, it is paramount to manage these beams in an efficient manner in order to always choose the optimum set of beams. In this work, we describe the first NR-compliant beam management framework for the ns-3 network simulator. We aim at providing an open-source and fully-customizable solution to let the scientific community implement their solutions and assess their impact on the end-to-end network performance. Additionally, we describe the necessary modifications in ns-3 to align the radio frame structure to what the 3GPP standards mandate. Finally, we validate our results by running a simple mobility scenario.
AB - The advent of the next iteration of mobile and wireless communication standards, the so called 5G, is already a reality. 3GPP released in December 2017 the first set of specifications of the 5G New Radio (NR), which introduced important innovations with respect to legacy networks. One of the main novelties is the use of very-high frequencies in the radio access, which requires highly-directional transmissions or beams to overcome the severe propagation losses. Therefore, it is paramount to manage these beams in an efficient manner in order to always choose the optimum set of beams. In this work, we describe the first NR-compliant beam management framework for the ns-3 network simulator. We aim at providing an open-source and fully-customizable solution to let the scientific community implement their solutions and assess their impact on the end-to-end network performance. Additionally, we describe the necessary modifications in ns-3 to align the radio frame structure to what the 3GPP standards mandate. Finally, we validate our results by running a simple mobility scenario.
KW - 5G
KW - Beam management
KW - MmWave
KW - NR
KW - Ns-3
KW - PHY
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U2 - 10.1145/3242102.3242117
DO - 10.1145/3242102.3242117
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85058486426
T3 - MSWiM 2018 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
SP - 119
EP - 125
BT - MSWiM 2018 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2018
Y2 - 28 October 2018 through 2 November 2018
ER -