RF requirements for multi-hop cellular network repeaters

Abstract

Multi-hop cellular networks are currently being explored for use in future generation cellular networks. This paper is a step towards identifying overall system requirements for the radio frequency (RF) part of terminals for such multi-hop cellular networks. Multi-hop cellular network offer tradeoffs between coverage, capacity and power consumption. Multi-hop networks are also expected to place new requirements on the RF parts of the transceivers of both repeating and mobile devices. In this pope< a set of system requirements are derived for multi-hop enabled RF front-ends. For this purpose, the uplink transmit power distributions and the uplink outage performance for multi-hop networks are investigated. According to simulation results, some RF requirements have been identi ed in both transmitter and receiver sections.