2018/04/25 by Shahram Shahsavari, Fraida Fund, Shahsavari, Shahram +5
Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #FOS: Computer and information sciences #ICT Impact and Policies #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.09851
openalex publication_date 2018/04/25 · openalex created_date 2022/10/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Due to the greater path loss, shadowing, and increased effect of blockage in\nmillimeter wave cellular networks, base station sharing among network service\nproviders has the potential to significantly improve overall network capacity.\nHowever, a service provider may find that despite the technical gains, sharing\nactually reduces its profits because it makes price competition between service\nproviders tougher. In this work, a weighted scheduling algorithm is described,\nwhich gives greater control over how the airtime resource is allocated within a\nshared cell. It is shown that, under certain market conditions, there exist\nscheduling weights such that base station sharing is more profitable than not\nsharing for both service providers in a duopoly market, while still achieving\nalmost as much network capacity as in a conventional base station sharing\nscenario. Thus, both technical and economic benefits of base station sharing\nmay be realized simultaneously.\n