@inproceedings{1fdf856d98d54a19945189ce173b77b9,
title = "A preliminary assessment of midhaul links at 140 GHz using ray-Tracing",
abstract = "The ever-growing demand for mobile data necessitates a transport network architecture that can withstand the 5G-And-beyond multi-Gbps traffic requirements. To cater for such unprecedented demand, studies are being conducted to incorporate TeraHertz (THz) communications in future mobile networks. In this paper, we consider an urban environment and evaluate the feasibility of THz wireless midhaul links for the transport networks between the Central Units (CU) and Distributed Units (DU) in a disaggregated 5G network architecture with functional splits. Our goal is to study the feasibility of midhaul links at 140 GHz by minimizing the number of required CUs to serve all the DUs. To this end, we define several policies for selecting CU and DU nodes in order to determine the peak data rate that can be supported over each link between a CU and DU. Our numerical results based on ray-Tracing suggest that wireless links at 140 GHz with 3GPP option 2 as High Layer Split (HLS) represents a promising technology for midhaul transport networks.",
keywords = "140 GHz, midhaul, ray-Tracing, transport networks",
author = "Chintareddy, {Sravan Reddy} and Marco Mezzavilla and Sundeep Rangan and Morteza Hashemi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 ACM.; 5th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems, mmNets 2021, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021 ; Conference date: 25-10-2021 Through 29-10-2021",
year = "2021",
month = oct,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1145/3477081.3481674",
language = "English (US)",
series = "mmNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "25--30",
booktitle = "mmNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021",
}