Design and Analysis of Initial Access in Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 16; no. 10; pp. 6409 - 6425
• Main Authors: Yingzhe Li, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Baccelli, Francois, Novlan, Thomas D., Zhang, Charlie Jianzhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Array signal processing; Cellular networks; Delays; Downlink; Fading channels; Initial access; millimeter wave cellular networks; Protocols; stochastic geometry; Throughput

Initial access is the process which allows a mobile user to first connect to a cellular network. It consists of two main steps: cell search (CS) on the downlink and random access (RA) on the uplink. Millimeter wave (mm-wave) cellular systems typically must rely on directional beamforming (BF) in ord...