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IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 101107, June 2011 !
A Case for LTE-5G Tight Integration!
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Extension to LTE-5G Integration!
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Packet losses!
X2 and S1 traffic!
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0
Simulation Scenario! -20
UE UE path at speed s
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0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
X [m]
100
Parameter Value
80
Outage threshold 5 dB
60 mmWave carrier frequency 28 GHz
mmWave bandwidth 1 GHz
LTE carrier frequency (DL) 2.1 GHz
Y [m]
40
LTE bandwidth 20 MHz
20 X2 link latency DX2 1 ms
RLC AM buer size BRLC 10 MB
0 S1-MME link latency 10 ms
s UDP packet size 1024 byte
-20 UDP packet interarrival 80 s
UE speed s 2 m/s along the x axis (Fig. 3)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Iterations N = 10
X [m]
Table 1: Simulation parameters
Throughput [Mbit/s]
400
3
Cell Throughput
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Cell
2 200
DC setup! 1
1.2
104 0
34
100 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Throughput [Mbit/s]
400
3 Time t [s]
Cell Throughput
LTE eNB 1
3 80 8 102
Latency [s]
6 102
DC, s
60
Y [m] Cell
2
mmWave eNB 2 mmWave eNB 3 4 102 DC, s
1
0
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 DC, s
40 Time t [s] 0.8 2 102
1 HH, s
0
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
HH, s
20
Current cell in time! PDCP throughput over time!
HH setup!
3
CellId
Time t [s]
Latency
8 102
HH, s
Latency [s]
(a) Dual Connectivity setup 0.6
6 102
HH, s
0
Cell
Throughput [Mbit/s]
2 400
4 102
3
Cell UE UE path at speed s Throughput
300
-20 0.4
2 102
Cell
1 0.1 1 10
234 0
200
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Throughput [Mbit/s]
400
3 Time t [s]
Cell Throughput
Figure 3: Simulation scenario. The grey rectangles are 300
buildings
3
PDCP Throughput
0.4
RLC
Cell
Latency [s]
0.3
2
Parameter
1
34 35 36 37
Value
38 39 40 41 42 43
Hard
44
Handover
45 46 47
104.98
48
Mbit/s
49 50
0 18.1
0.1
Time t [s]
LTE eNB 1
Throug
RRC throughput [bit/s]
DC, s =
1
1
Throughput [Mbit/s]
3
Cell Time t [s] Throughput
DC, s =
mmWave eNB 2
Cell mmWave eNB 3 DC, s =
8 102
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32
CellId Latency
200 DC, s =
0.8
Latency [s]
6 102
HH, s =
Cell
21 4 102
HH, s =
Different scales!
0
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
DC setup! 1
Time t [s]
0.6
HH, s = 2 102
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
0
50 8 102 HH, s =
3
CellId Time t [s] Latency
UE UE path at speed s
Latency [s]
6 102
(a) Dual Connectivity setup
Cell
2 4 102
0.4
Throughput [Mbit/s]
400
3 0.1 1 10
Cell Throughput 2 102
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
1
DX2 [ms]
0
300
Cell
34
2 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 200
Throughput [Mbit/s]
3
Cell Time t [s] Throughput
PDCP Throughput300 RLC Lat
0.4
Cell
32
CellId Dual Connectivity 106.70 Mbit/s
Latency
200
5.1 ms
Latency [s]
0.3
Hard Handover 104.98 Mbit/s 100
18.1 ms
Value
Cell
21 0.2
0
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
1
rrier frequency34
3
35 28 GHz36 37 38 39 40 41 42
parameters
43 44
in Table
45 46
1, average
47 48
over
49
N =
0
50 0.4
10 simulatio
Time t [s]
ndwidth 1 GHz
CellId Latency
Latency [s]
0.3
2
idth Figure 2: Examples 20 MHz RLC Latency 0.2
of simulation output: throughput and latency over time, over the cell to which the UE is connected.
0.1 Cells
ncy DX2 2 and 31 are the 1 ms eNBs, cell 1 is the LTE eNB
mmWave Dual Connectivity 5.1 ms
0
uer size BRLC 34 35
10 MB 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Time t [s]
43 44
Hard45
Handover
46 47 48
18.1
49
ms50
k latency 10 ms
RRC Traffic!
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1
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0.8
0.6
0.4 0.1 1 10
DX2 (Kb)
Conclusions!
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[1] M. Polese, Performance Comparison of Dual Connectivity and Hard Handover for LTE-5G
Tight Integration in mmWave Cellular Networks, Masters thesis, Dept. of Information
Engineering, University of Padova, July 2016. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04330 !
Performance Comparison of Dual
Connectivity and Hard Handover for
LTE-5G Tight Integration!