A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments

Arvind Narayanan; Muhammad Iqbal Rochman; Ahmad Hassan; Bariq S. Firmansyah; Vanlin Sathya; Monisha Ghosh; Feng Qian; Zhi Li Zhang

doi:10.1109/INFOCOM48880.2022.9796693

A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments

Arvind Narayanan, Muhammad Iqbal Rochman, Ahmad Hassan, Bariq S. Firmansyah, Vanlin Sathya, Monisha Ghosh, Feng Qian, Zhi Li Zhang

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5G-NR is beginning to be widely deployed in the mmWave frequencies in urban areas in the US and around the world. Due to the directional nature of mmWave signal propagation, improving performance of such deployments heavily relies on beam management and deployment configurations. We perform detailed measurements of mmWave 5G deployments by two major commercial 5G operators in the US in two diverse environments: an open field with a baseball park (BP) and a downtown urban canyon region (DT), using smartphone-based tools that collect detailed measurements across several layers (PHY, MAC and up) such as beam-specific metrics like signal strength, beam switch times, and throughput per beam. Our measurement analysis shows that the parameters of the two deployments differ in a number of aspects: number of beams used, number of channels aggregated, and density of deployments, which reflect on the throughput performance. Our measurement-driven propagation analysis demonstrates that narrower beams experience a lower path-loss exponent than wider beams, which combined with up to eight frequency channels aggregated on up to eight beams can deliver a peak throughput of 1.2 Gbps at distances greater than 100m.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	800-809
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665458221
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM48880.2022.9796693
State	Published - 2022
Event	41st IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2022 - Virtual, Online, United Kingdom Duration: May 2 2022 → May 5 2022

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Conference	41st IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2022
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Virtual, Online
Period	5/2/22 → 5/5/22

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* These authors contributed equally to this paper. Corresponding authors: [email protected], [email protected] This research was in part supported by NSF under Grants CNS-1618836, CNS-2128489, CNS-1814322, CNS-1836772, CNS-1901103, CNS-1915122, CCF-1903880 and a Cisco University Research Grant.

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Narayanan, A., Rochman, M. I., Hassan, A., Firmansyah, B. S., Sathya, V., Ghosh, M., Qian, F., & Zhang, Z. L. (2022). A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments. In INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 800-809). (IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM48880.2022.9796693

A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments. / Narayanan, Arvind; Rochman, Muhammad Iqbal; Hassan, Ahmad et al.
INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 800-809 (IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications).

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Narayanan, A, Rochman, MI, Hassan, A, Firmansyah, BS, Sathya, V, Ghosh, M, Qian, F & Zhang, ZL 2022, A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments. in INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 800-809, 41st IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2022, Virtual, Online, United Kingdom, 5/2/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM48880.2022.9796693

Narayanan A, Rochman MI, Hassan A, Firmansyah BS, Sathya V, Ghosh M et al. A Comparative Measurement Study of Commercial 5G mmWave Deployments. In INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. p. 800-809. (IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications). doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM48880.2022.9796693

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