Base Station Deployment in 5G Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

Abstract

As the development of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks becomes more mature, it is foreseeable that the networks worldwide will gradually migrate to 5G from the existing ones. Yet the existing network infrastructures are not capable of handling the massive high data rate traffic empowered by millimeter wave (mmWave). Thus, thorough planning on base station (BS) deployment strategy is a crucial factor in building successful 5G networks. In this work I will study the performance of different BS deployment approach by simulation, and investigate how factors like location of BS, BS search method and number of BS affect the cost and performance of network. Results will be evaluated with Simulated Annealing (SA) and optimization to the problem will be conducted. The solution is expected to have minimized cost while satisfying a standard in network Quality of Service (QoS), with acceptable outage probability.