Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era

The traditional static allocation of a portion of the licensed spectrum specified for a country to a mobile network operator (MNO) is no longer sufficient to address the required spectrum demand, as well as efficient to utilize the allocated spectrum. To overcome these constraints, i.e. to increase...

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Main Author: Rony Kumer Saha
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Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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description The traditional static allocation of a portion of the licensed spectrum specified for a country to a mobile network operator (MNO) is no longer sufficient to address the required spectrum demand, as well as efficient to utilize the allocated spectrum. To overcome these constraints, i.e. to increase the spectrum availability and utilization, in this paper, we present a new paradigm for the spectrum allocation called licensed countrywide full-spectrum allocation (LCFSA) to allocate the licensed countrywide full 28 GHz millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum to each MNO of a country to operate its small cells per building subject to avoiding co-channel interference (CCI). Since most data is generated indoors, the countrywide full mmWave spectrum allocated to an MNO is considered reusing further to its in-building small cells. CCI avoidance in both the time-domain and frequency-domain is presented along with deducing the conditions for optimality. We derive average capacity, spectral efficiency (SE), energy efficiency (EE), and cost efficiency (CE) for LCFSA, and perform extensive numerical and simulation results and analyses for a country consisting of four MNOs. It is shown that LCFSA with both the time-domain and frequency-domain CCI avoidance schemes provide similar performance improvement in average capacity, SE, EE, and CE by about 296%, 164%, 75%, and 60% respectively for no interfering user equipments (UEs), whereas by about 59.2%, 6.1%, 37.2%, and 0.45% respectively for all interfering UEs with the frequency-domain CCI scheme. Moreover, it is found that the improvement in the above metrics does not change with the spectrum reuse factor (RF) and the number of buildings of small cells per macrocell L, and the impact of interfering UEs can be compensated by adjusting RF. Finally, we show that LCFSA can satisfy the SE and EE requirements for sixth-generation (6G) systems by adjusting either RF or L, or both.
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spelling doaj.art-aefe1f4200994b00b7109e127b6160722022-12-21T19:59:40ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01816661216662910.1109/ACCESS.2020.30233429193934Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G EraRony Kumer Saha0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3704-5312Radio and Spectrum Laboratory, KDDI Research, Inc., Saitama, JapanThe traditional static allocation of a portion of the licensed spectrum specified for a country to a mobile network operator (MNO) is no longer sufficient to address the required spectrum demand, as well as efficient to utilize the allocated spectrum. To overcome these constraints, i.e. to increase the spectrum availability and utilization, in this paper, we present a new paradigm for the spectrum allocation called licensed countrywide full-spectrum allocation (LCFSA) to allocate the licensed countrywide full 28 GHz millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum to each MNO of a country to operate its small cells per building subject to avoiding co-channel interference (CCI). Since most data is generated indoors, the countrywide full mmWave spectrum allocated to an MNO is considered reusing further to its in-building small cells. CCI avoidance in both the time-domain and frequency-domain is presented along with deducing the conditions for optimality. We derive average capacity, spectral efficiency (SE), energy efficiency (EE), and cost efficiency (CE) for LCFSA, and perform extensive numerical and simulation results and analyses for a country consisting of four MNOs. It is shown that LCFSA with both the time-domain and frequency-domain CCI avoidance schemes provide similar performance improvement in average capacity, SE, EE, and CE by about 296%, 164%, 75%, and 60% respectively for no interfering user equipments (UEs), whereas by about 59.2%, 6.1%, 37.2%, and 0.45% respectively for all interfering UEs with the frequency-domain CCI scheme. Moreover, it is found that the improvement in the above metrics does not change with the spectrum reuse factor (RF) and the number of buildings of small cells per macrocell L, and the impact of interfering UEs can be compensated by adjusting RF. Finally, we show that LCFSA can satisfy the SE and EE requirements for sixth-generation (6G) systems by adjusting either RF or L, or both.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9193934/28 GHz5G6Gmillimeter-wavemobile network operatorsmall cells
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Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era
IEEE Access
28 GHz
5G
6G
millimeter-wave
mobile network operator
small cells
title Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era
title_full Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era
title_fullStr Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era
title_full_unstemmed Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era
title_short Licensed Countrywide Full-Spectrum Allocation: A New Paradigm for Millimeter-Wave Mobile Systems in 5G/6G Era
title_sort licensed countrywide full spectrum allocation a new paradigm for millimeter wave mobile systems in 5g 6g era
topic 28 GHz
5G
6G
millimeter-wave
mobile network operator
small cells
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9193934/
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