Chinese Journal on Internet of Things ›› 2018, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (4): 78-86.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2018.00079

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Tractable yet effective approximation to directional antenna array for millimeter-wave networks

Na DENG1,Haichao WEI1   

  1. 1 School of Information and Communication Engineering,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China
    2 School of Information Science and Technology,Dalian Maritime University,Dalian 116026,China
  • Revised:2018-10-29 Online:2018-12-01 Published:2019-01-03
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61701071);The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2017M621129);The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(DUT16RC(3)119)

Abstract:

The complexity of the actual antenna pattern imposes restrictions on investigating the benefits of directional antenna arrays in large-scale networks.Hence,a novel multi-level flat-top antenna pattern was proposed to approximate and simplify the actual one and was applied in millimeter-wave cellular networks for performance analysis.To fully characterize the impact of the directional antenna array on the user performance,stochastic geometry was adopted to establish an analytical framework for millimeter-wave cellular networks and derive the coverage probability and transmission rate of the typical user with the proposed multi-level flat-top antenna pattern,including the exact and bounding expressions.The simulation results show that the proposed antenna pattern provides a better tradeoff between the accuracy and tractability than previous patterns.

Key words: antenna pattern approximation, performance analysis, stochastic geometry, millimeter wave

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