Indoor Millimeter-Wave Systems: Design and Performance Evaluation

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for designing and evaluating indoor millimeter-wave systems, integrating technology status, validated channel models, and deployment strategies to address system-level challenges.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated framework combining technology updates, validated channel models, and deployment insights for indoor mmWave system design.

Findings

Insights on feasible deployment densities

Strategies for beam management

Requirements for capacity extensions

Abstract

Indoor areas, such as offices and shopping malls, are a natural environment for initial millimeter-wave (mmWave) deployments. While we already have the technology that enables us to realize indoor mmWave deployments, there are many remaining challenges associated with system-level design and planning for such. The objective of this article is to bring together multiple strands of research to provide a comprehensive and integrated framework for the design and performance evaluation of indoor mmWave systems. The paper introduces the framework with a status update on mmWave technology, including ongoing fifth generation (5G) wireless standardization efforts, and then moves on to experimentally-validated channel models that inform performance evaluation and deployment planning. Together these yield insights on indoor mmWave deployment strategies and system configurations, from feasible deployment densities to beam management strategies and necessary capacity extensions.