Abstract
The communications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, e.g., WiGig (60 GHz), is considered as one of the main components of 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks. However, it is characterized by short range transmissions along with high susceptibility to path blockage, e.g., human shadowing. Thus, mmWave multi-hop relaying using device to device (D2D) connections turns to be an efficient solution to extend its communication range and to route around blockages. In this context, relay probing is essential to discover/explore the candidate multi-hop routes from source-to-destination and then select the best route among them. However, a trade-off exists between relay probing and the required overhead coming from mmWave beamforming training. In this paper, taking advantage of the multi-band μW /mmWave relay nodes, an efficient multi-hop relay probing scheme is proposed for mmWave D2D routing. In this scheme, the collected μW received signal strengths (RSSs) among the distributed relay nodes are used to estimate the probability of their mmWave signal-to-noise power ratios (SNRs) while considering line-of-sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) path availabilities. Then, based on a proposed probabilistic metric, a hierarchical search algorithm is proposed to jointly discover the relay nodes along the candidate multi-hop routes and enumerate the number of routes expected to maximize the spectral efficiency of the whole path from source-to-destination. This is done in an offline phase, and only the relay nodes located within the pre-selected multi-hop routes are requested to do online relay probing. Numerical analysis confirms the superiority of the proposed mmWave multi-hop relay probing scheme over the candidate techniques.
Highlights
The large swath of available spectrum in the millimeter band, 30 ∼ 300 GHz, attracts researchers from both academia and industry to use it for fifth generation (5G) and beyond (B5G) applications [1]–[5]
The authors in this paper showed that the optimal relay probing is a pure-threshold policy
The proposed route probing scheme consists of two phases, the offline phase and online phase
Summary
The large swath of available spectrum in the millimeter (mmWave) band, 30 ∼ 300 GHz, attracts researchers from both academia and industry to use it for fifth generation (5G) and beyond (B5G) applications [1]–[5]. 2) The extension of the scheme to the multi-hop scenario turns to be unrealistic due to the need of pre-knowing the distribution of the spectral efficiencies of the multi-hop routes with different hop counts in addition to their LOS blockage probabilities. We propose an efficient yet practical multi-hop relay probing scheme for mmWave D2D networks. Efficiency of the candidate routes in addition to their LOS blockage probabilities, which are impractical assumptions in real scenarios Both LOS and NLOS paths are considered, which makes the proposed scheme more realistic.
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