2022/10/11 by Charitha Madapatha, Madapatha, Charitha, Behrooz Makki +5 · 1 citation
Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.05253
openalex publication_date 2022/10/11 · openalex created_date 2022/10/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) is one of the promising techniques for 5G networks and beyond (6G), in which the same node/hardware is used to provide both backhaul and cellular services in a multi-hop fashion. Due to the sensitivity of the backhaul links with high rate/reliability demands, proper network planning is needed to make the IAB network performing appropriately and as good as possible. In this paper, we study the effect of deployment optimization on the coverage of IAB networks. We concentrate on the cases where, due to either geographical or interference management limitations, unconstrained IAB node placement is not feasible in some areas. To that end, we propose various millimeter wave (mmWave) blocking-aware constrained deployment optimization approaches. Our results indicate that, even with limitations on deployment optimization, network planning boosts the coverage of IAB networks considerably.