Self-organized multi-hop millimeter-wave backhaul network: Beam alignment and dynamic routing

Millimeter-wave (mmW) communication is envisioned to be a promising technology to cater for the continuous growth of backhaul link capacity demand. To compensate the severe path loss for mmW signals, the mmW backhaul link typically employs beam alignment between transmitter and receiver to achieve essential antenna gain. To reduce deployment cost and improve operational efficiency, it is desired to implement a self-organized backhaul link, so that the beam alignment can be achieved automatically with minimum human effort. To this end, this paper proposes a self-organized dual connectivity establishment procedure for the mmW backhaul link to support autonomous beam alignment and dynamic routing.