Paper Info
Title
Effect of LOS/NLOS propagation on area spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of small-cells
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the effect of Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) propagation on the Area Spectral Efficiency (ASE) and on the energy efficiency of dense small-cell networks. We show that including both LOS and NLOS propagation in the path-loss model provides a completely different picture of the behaviours of ASE and energy efficiency than what would be observed in case of either LOS or NLOS propagation only. In particular, with combined LOS/NLOS path-loss, the ASE exhibits superlinear and sublinear behaviour at low and high cell densities, respectively. In addition, the energy efficiency as a function of the cell density has a global maximum and is not a monotonically increasing function like in case of LOS or NLOS propagation only. Based on our findings, we claim that Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) propagations play an important role in studying the performance of extremely dense small-cell networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037345
Global Communications Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cellular radio,ASE,LOS,NLOS,area spectral efficiency,dense small-cell networks,energy efficiency,line-of-sight propagation,nonline-of-sight propagation,path-loss model,Dense networks,LOS,NLOS,area spectral efficiency,energy efficiency,small-cells,transmit power
Non-line-of-sight propagation,Base station,Telecommunications,Computational physics,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Real-time computing,Spectral efficiency,Interference (wave propagation),Attenuation,Throughput
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1409.7575
2334-0983
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlo Galiotto170.49
Ismael Gómez2929.51
Nicola Marchetti3412.56
L. E. Doyle448745.61