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User-Centric Design of Millimeter Wave Communications for Beyond 5G and 6G

Koji ISHIBASHI, Takanori HARA, Sota UCHIMURA, Tetsuya IYE, Yoshimi FUJII, Takahide MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki SHINBO

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In this paper, we propose new radio access network (RAN) architecture for reliable millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, which has the flexibility to meet users' diverse and fluctuating requirements in terms of communication quality. This architecture is composed of multiple radio units (RUs) connected to a common distributed unit (DU) via fronthaul links to virtually enlarge its coverage. We further present grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) for low-latency uplink communications with a massive number of users and robust coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission using blockage prediction for uplink/downlink communications with a high data rate and a guaranteed minimum data rate as the technical pillars of the proposed RAN. The numerical results indicate that our proposed architecture can meet completely different user requirements and realize a user-centric design of the RAN for beyond 5G/6G.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E105-B No.10 pp.1117-1129
Publication Date
2022/10/01
Publicized
2022/07/13
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2021MEI0002
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Multidisciplinary and Innovative Key technologies in Advanced communication systems (MIKA))
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Authors

Koji ISHIBASHI
  The University of Electro-Communications
Takanori HARA
  The University of Electro-Communications
Sota UCHIMURA
  The University of Electro-Communications
Tetsuya IYE
  the Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Inc.
Yoshimi FUJII
  the Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Inc.
Takahide MURAKAMI
  the KDDI Research, Inc.
Hiroyuki SHINBO
  the KDDI Research, Inc.

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