Wireless Backhaul: Performance Modeling and Impact on User Association for 5G
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Volume
17
Pagination
3095 - 3110
Publisher
DOI
10.1109/twc.2018.2806456
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Issue
ISSN
1536-1276
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Wireless technology is the strongest contender for catering for the 5G backhaul (BH) stipulated performance, where optical fiber is unavailable. In the presence of ultra-dense networks, such occurrences are exponentially increasing, and different wireless technologies are investigated for this application. We present the first BH-specific wireless link performance modeling that considers its inherent line-of-sight nature, together with an appropriate representation of the network topology using stochastic geometry. To this end, novel tractable models are obtained to capture the performance of wireless BH links. These are integrated into a multi-hop hybrid BH performance modeling framework and are applied in the analysis of a BH-aware user association optimisation problem.