Indoor Millimeter-Wave Systems: Design and Performance Evaluation
01 June 2020
Indoor areas, such as offices or shopping malls, are a natural environment for initial millimeter-wave (mmWave) roll-outs. While we already have the technology that enables us to realize indoor mmWave deployments, there are many outstanding issues associated with the system-level design and planning for such. The objective of this manuscript is to bring together multiple strands of research to provide a comprehensive framework for the design and performance evaluation of indoor mmWave systems. The paper describes this framework by looking at its individual components, starting from ongoing 5th Generation wireless (5G) standardization efforts, that inform the entire framework, and subsequently moving on to experimentally-validated channel models, that feed into system-level evaluations and deployment planning. The latter two result in a set of overall insights on indoor mmWave deployment strategies and system configurations, from the feasible deployment densities, to beam management strategies, and necessary capacity extensions.
