Optimizing mmWave Wireless Backhaul Scheduling

@article{Arribas2020OptimizingMW,
title={Optimizing mmWave Wireless Backhaul Scheduling},
author={Edgar Arribas and Antonio Fernandez Anta and Dariusz R. Kowalski and Vincenzo Mancuso and Miguel A. Mosteiro and Joerg Widmer and Prudence W. H. Wong},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
year={2020},
volume={19},
pages={2409-2428}
}
• Published 1 October 2020
• Computer Science
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication not only provides ultra-high speed radio access but is also ideally suited for efficient and flexible wireless backhauling. Specifically for dense deployments, a mmWave macro base station (MBS) that serves a large number of mmWave micro base stations (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mi>μ</mml:mi></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="mancuso-ieq1-2924884.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>BSs) is…
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