Wireless Internet. 9th International Conference, WICON 2016, Haikou, China, December 19-20, 2016, Proceedings

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A Simplified Interference Model for Outdoor Millimeter Wave Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-72998-5_11,
        author={Xiaolin Jiang and Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei and Carlo Fischione and Zhibo Pang},
        title={A Simplified Interference Model for Outdoor Millimeter Wave Networks},
        proceedings={Wireless Internet. 9th International Conference, WICON 2016, Haikou, China, December 19-20, 2016, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={WICON},
        year={2018},
        month={1},
        keywords={Millimeter-wave network Interference model Simplicity-accuracy tradeoff Interference model accuracy index},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-72998-5_11}
    }
    
  • Xiaolin Jiang
    Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei
    Carlo Fischione
    Zhibo Pang
    Year: 2018
    A Simplified Interference Model for Outdoor Millimeter Wave Networks
    WICON
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72998-5_11
Xiaolin Jiang1,*, Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei1,*, Carlo Fischione1,*, Zhibo Pang2,*
  • 1: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • 2: ABB Corporate Research
*Contact email: xiaolinj@kth.se, hshokri@kth.se, carlofi@kth.se, pang.zhibo@se.abb.com

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is the emerging trend of the industrial automation. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a prominent technology for wireless networks to support the Industry 4.0 implementation. The availability of tractable accurate interference models would greatly facilitate the design of these networks. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of an interference model that assumes impenetrable obstacles and neglects the sidelobes. We quantify the error of such a model in terms of statistical distribution of the signal to noise plus interference ratio for outdoor mmWave networks under different antenna array settings. The results show that assuming impenetrable obstacle comes at almost no accuracy penalty, and the accuracy of neglecting antenna sidelobes can be guaranteed with sufficiently large number of antenna elements.