Power-efficient beam tracking during connected mode DRX in mmWave and sub-THz systems
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Author(s)
Shah, Syed Hashim Ali
Aditya, Sundar
Rangan, Sundeep
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Discontinuous reception (DRX), wherein a user equipment (UE) temporarily disables its receiver, is a critical power saving feature in modern cellular systems. DRX is likely to be aggressively used at mmWave and sub-THz frequencies due to the high front-end power consumption. A key challenge for DRX at these frequencies is blockage-induced link outages: a UE will likely need to track many directional links to ensure reliable multi-connectivity, thereby increasing the power consumption. In this paper, we explore bandit algorithms for link tracking in connected mode DRX that reduce power consumption by tracking only a fraction of the available links, but without adversely affecting the outage and throughput performance. Through detailed, system level simulations at 28 GHz (5G) and 140 GHz (6G), we observe that even sub-optimal link tracking policies can achieve considerable power savings with relatively little degradation in outage and throughput performance, especially with digital beamforming at the UE. In particular, we show that it is feasible to reduce power consumption by 75% and still achieve up to 95% (80%) of the maximum throughput using digital beamforming at 28 GHz (140 GHz), subject to an outage probability of at most 1%.
Date Issued
2021-06-01
Date Acceptance
2021-03-01
Citation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2021, 39 (6), pp.1711-1724
ISSN
0733-8716
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1711
End Page
1724
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume
39
Issue
6
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© 2021 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Power demand
Array signal processing
Amplitude modulation
Throughput
5G mobile communication
3GPP
Wireless communication
Discontinuous reception (DRX)
multiple-play multi-armed bandits (MP-MAB)
power-efficient beam tracking
sub-terahertz (THz) communications
millimeter wave (mmWave) communications
5G
6G
CARRIER AGGREGATION
BLOCKAGE
COMMUNICATION
TUTORIAL
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-04-08