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The Influence of Obstacle Blockage on 5G Millimeter Wave Communication

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Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS 2018)

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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is one of the hottest topics in the fifth- generation communication (5G) research. The influence of blockages on mmWave communication is very serious. This paper provides an overview of the research status of the blockage effect. First, it briefly introduces the impact of natural environment blockages and human blockages. Second, it focuses on the building blockage effect which is the most serious blocking form of cellular networks communication, and then discusses a tractable stochastic analysis approach for modeling the building blockage effect. Combining with the system performance analysis, some more practically simplified methods for the complex system models are condensed. Finally, the direction that can be studied to solve obstacle blockage effect is proposed.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61371091, 61301228.

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  1. Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China

    Linlin Xu & Dianwu Yue

  2. University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China

    Linlin Xu

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Xu, L., Yue, D. (2019). The Influence of Obstacle Blockage on 5G Millimeter Wave Communication. In: Liang, Q., Liu, X., Na, Z., Wang, W., Mu, J., Zhang, B. (eds) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 515. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6264-4_89

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