Inter-Operator Base Station Coordination in Spectrum-Shared Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks
Abstract
We characterize the rate coverage distribution for a spectrum-shared millimeter wave downlink cellular network. Each of multiple cellular operators owns separate mmWave bandwidth, but shares the spectrum amongst each other while using dynamic inter-operator base station (BS) coordination to suppress the resulting cross-operator interference. We model the BS locations of each operator as mutually independent Poisson point processes, and derive the probability density function (PDF) of the K-th strongest link power, incorporating both line-of-sight and non line-of-sight states. Leveraging the obtained PDF, we derive the rate coverage expression as a function of system parameters such as the BS density, transmit power, bandwidth, and coordination set size. We verify the analysis with extensive simulation results. A major finding is that inter-operator BS coordination is useful in spectrum sharing (i) with dense and high power operators and (ii) with fairly wide beams, e.g., 30 or higher.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.06239,
title = {Inter-Operator Base Station Coordination in Spectrum-Shared Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks},
author = {Jeonghun Park and Jeffrey G. Andrews and Robert W. Heath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06239},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
submitted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking