@inproceedings{c8ec2f407e174a6c9f4d2bff915f8a20,
title = "MAC layer frame design for millimeter wave cellular system",
abstract = "The MAC layer will need to be significantly redesigned to support the highly directional transmissions, very low latencies and high peak rates featured in 5G millimeter wave communication. This paper analyzes the frame structure and beamforming choices for mmWave MAC layer design. In this work we illustrate simple analytical methods to quantify the resource utilization and physical layer control overhead for millimeter wave cellular systems. It is observed that certain flexible frame design choices may lead to dramatically improved resource utilization under various traffic patterns. Moreover, it is shown that fully digital beamforming architectures offer significantly lower overhead than analog and hybrid beamforming under comparable power budgets.",
keywords = "5G cellular systems, MAC design, beamforming, control overhead, frame structure, millimeter wave, power consumption, radio resource utilization",
author = "Sourjya Dutta and Marco Mezzavilla and Russell Ford and Menglei Zhang and Sundeep Rangan and Michele Zorzi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EUCNC 2016 ; Conference date: 27-06-2016 Through 30-06-2016",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561016",
language = "English (US)",
series = "EUCNC 2016 - European Conference on Networks and Communications",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "117--121",
booktitle = "EUCNC 2016 - European Conference on Networks and Communications",
}