Automated Placement of Individual Millimeter-Wave Wall-Mounted Base Stations for Line-of-Sight Coverage of Outdoor Urban Areas

摘要

In this letter, advanced concepts in polygon computational geometry are combined to automate the placement of thousands of millimeter-wave (mmWave) wall-mounted base stations over two large urban areas, and to gather their line-of-sight coverage statistics; this is the first large-scale fully-automated channel modeling study of mmWave cells over massive open building data. This allows for a more accurate modeling of small-cell mmWave access networks, which are currently considered as a strong candidate technology for providing gigabit rates to dense urban areas.