Title
Are We Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Wireless Network Densification?
Abstract
The single most important factor enabling the data rate increases in wireless networks over the past few decades has been densification, namely adding more base stations and access points and thus getting more spatial reuse of the spectrum. This trend is set to continue into 5G and beyond. However, at some point further densification will no longer be able to provide exponentially increasing data rates. Like the end of Moore¿s Law, this will have extensive implications for the entire technology landscape, which depends ever more heavily on wireless connectivity. When and why will this happen? How might we delay this from occurring for as long as possible? These are the questions explored in this article.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/MCOM.2016.7588290
IEEE Communications Magazine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interference,Signal to noise ratio,Base stations,Wireless networks,Throughput,Propagation losses,Performance evaluation
Radio resource management,Wireless network,Base station,Telecommunications,Wireless site survey,Reuse,Computer science,Computer network,Data rate,Throughput,Wireless connectivity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1512.00413
10
0163-6804
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
1.02
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeffrey G. Andrews1181021115.64
Xinchen Zhang231113.32
Gregory D. Durgin37215.35
Abhishek K. Gupta427217.38