Title :
Enabling 5G backhaul and access with millimeter-waves
Author :
Weiler, Richard J. ; Peter, Minin ; Keusgen, Wilhelm ; Calvanese-Strinati, Emilio ; De Domenico, Antonio ; Filippini, Ilario ; Capone, Antonio ; Siaud, Isabelle ; Ulmer-Moll, Anne-Marie ; Maltsev, Alexander ; Haustein, Thomas ; Sakaguchi, Kei
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents the approach of extending cellular networks with millimeter-wave backhaul and access links. Introducing a logical split between control and user plane will permit full coverage while seamlessly achieving very high data rates in the vicinity of mm-wave small cells.
Keywords :
cellular radio; 5G backhaul; cellular networks; logical split; millimeter-wave access link; millimeter-wave backhaul link; mm-wave small-cells; user plane; Antennas; Base stations; Computer architecture; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave propagation; Mobile communication; 60 GHz; Backhaul; C/U plane split; Centralized-RAN; Fronthaul; HetNet; Millimeter-wave; Millimeter-wave radio channel; Overlay; SG; Small Cell;
Conference_Titel :
Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bologna
DOI :
10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882644