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Can Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems provide High Reliability and Low Latency? An analysis of the impact of Mobile Blockers

12 Jul 2018arXiv:1807.04388archive 2025-07-28

Ish Kumar Jain, Rajeev Kumar, Shivendra Panwar

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication systems can provide high data rates, but the system performance may degrade significantly due to interruptions by mobile blockers such as humans or vehicles. A high frequency of interruptions and lengthy blockage durations will degrade the quality of the user's experience. A promising solution is to employ the macrodiversity of Base Stations (BSs), where the User Equipment (UE) can handover to other available BSs if the current serving BS gets blocked. However, an analytical model to evaluate the system performance of dynamic blockage events in this setting is unknown. In this paper, we develop a Line of Sight (LOS) dynamic blockage model and evaluate the probability, duration, and frequency of blockage events considering all the links in the range of the UE which are not blocked by buildings or the user's own body. For a dense urban area, we also analyze the impact of non-LOS (NLOS) links on blockage events. Our results indicate that the minimum density of BS required to satisfy the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) applications is driven mainly by reliability and latency constraints, rather than coverage or capacity requirements.

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