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A 3GPP NR Compliant Beam Management Framework to Simulate End-to-End mmWave Networks

Authors:

Carlos Herranz,

Marco Mezzavilla,

David Martin-Sacristán,

Sundeep Rangan,

Jose F. MonserratAuthors Info & Claims

MSWIM '18: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Pages 119 - 125

https://doi.org/10.1145/3242102.3242117

Published: 25 October 2018 Publication History

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The advent of the next iteration of mobile and wireless communication standards, the so called 5G, is already a reality. 3GPP released in December 2017 the first set of specifications of the 5G New Radio (NR), which introduced important innovations with respect to legacy networks. One of the main novelties is the use of very-high frequencies in the radio access, which requires highly-directional transmissions or beams to overcome the severe propagation losses. Therefore, it is paramount to manage these beams in an efficient manner in order to always choose the optimum set of beams. In this work, we describe the first NR-compliant beam management framework for the ns-3 network simulator. We aim at providing an open-source and fully-customizable solution to let the scientific community implement their solutions and assess their impact on the end-to-end network performance. Additionally, we describe the necessary modifications in ns-3 to align the radio frame structure to what the 3GPP standards mandate. Finally, we validate our results by running a simple mobility scenario.

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A 3GPP NR Compliant Beam Management Framework to Simulate End-to-End mmWave Networks
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  1. Architectures
    1. Parallel architectures
      1. Cellular architectures
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