Relay Probing for Millimeter Wave Multi-Hop D2D Networks

Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed; Basem M. Elhalawany; Haitham S. Khallaf; Mahdi Zareei; Asim Zeb; Mahmoud Ahmed Abdelghany

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2972614

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Relay Probing for Millimeter Wave Multi-Hop D2D Networks

Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed,
Basem M. Elhalawany,
Haitham S. Khallaf,
Mahdi Zareei,
Asim Zeb,
Mahmoud Ahmed Abdelghany

Affiliations

Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed: ORCiD; Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Wadi Addwasir, Saudi Arabia
Basem M. Elhalawany: ORCiD; Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Shoubra, Egypt
Haitham S. Khallaf: Nuclear Research Center, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA), Inshas, Egypt
Mahdi Zareei: ORCiD; Escuela de Ingenieria y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Asim Zeb: ORCiD; Department of IT, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Mahmoud Ahmed Abdelghany: ORCiD; Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Wadi Addwasir, Saudi Arabia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2972614
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 30560 – 30574

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The communications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, e.g., WiGig (60 GHz), is considered as one of the main components of 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks. However, it is characterized by short range transmissions along with high susceptibility to path blockage, e.g., human shadowing. Thus, mmWave multi-hop relaying using device to device (D2D) connections turns to be an efficient solution to extend its communication range and to route around blockages. In this context, relay probing is essential to discover/explore the candidate multi-hop routes from source-to-destination and then select the best route among them. However, a trade-off exists between relay probing and the required overhead coming from mmWave beamforming training. In this paper, taking advantage of the multi-band μW /mmWave relay nodes, an efficient multi-hop relay probing scheme is proposed for mmWave D2D routing. In this scheme, the collected μW received signal strengths (RSSs) among the distributed relay nodes are used to estimate the probability of their mmWave signal-to-noise power ratios (SNRs) while considering line-of-sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) path availabilities. Then, based on a proposed probabilistic metric, a hierarchical search algorithm is proposed to jointly discover the relay nodes along the candidate multi-hop routes and enumerate the number of routes expected to maximize the spectral efficiency of the whole path from source-to-destination. This is done in an offline phase, and only the relay nodes located within the pre-selected multi-hop routes are requested to do online relay probing. Numerical analysis confirms the superiority of the proposed mmWave multi-hop relay probing scheme over the candidate techniques.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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