Title
Uninterrupted Connectivity Time in THz Systems Under User Micromobility and Blockage
Abstract
Terahertz (THz) band is considered as the main candidate for new radio access technology in sixth-generation (6G) cellular systems. However, the performance of these systems will be severely affected by not only blockage but user equipment (UE) micromobility in hands of a user. The negative effects of these phenomena can be alleviated by utilizing the multi-connectivity functionality that allows UE to maintain two or more links to nearby base stations (BS) and use them when the currently active link is lost. By accounting for THz specific propagation, antenna and beamsearching design, the density of THz BS deployment, and multi-connectivity operation, we investigate the successful session completion probability under both types of impairments. Our results indicate that the gains of multi-connectivity are observed up to 5 simultaneously supported links and heavily depend on the application outage tolerance time and is mostly affected by micromobility. To improve it, one needs to ensure that the application may tolerate outage caused by beamsearching time which is on the order of milliseconds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685384
2021 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Terahertz communications, micromobility, outage, multi-connectivity, human body blockage, beamsearching
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Moltchanov112517.60
Vitalii Beschastnyi201.35
Darya Y. Ostrikova3132.50
Yuliya Gaidamaka400.34
Yevgeni Koucheryavy500.68