Planning of 5G Heterogonous Wireless Local Network Based on Millimeter Wave Signals for University Campus

Abstract

The rapid development of smart devices and intelligent things led to exponentially increase the traffic of data in wireless networks in recent years. A heterogeneous network (Her-Net), and Millimeter Wave (mm-Wave) band are the suitable solutions for the new generation networks to enhance coverage, capacity, and users demand. The main aim of this paper is to plan a fifth-Generation Heterogonous Wireless Local Network (5G Het-WLN) using dense small cells at Taiz university, Taiz, Yemen. The coverage area of Taiz university divided into 4 regions, each region with one microcell operating at 38 GHz frequency band. A further 120 femtocells were distributed inside university buildings which operate at 60 GHz frequency band. The femtocells enhance the capacity and coverage requirement for indoor subscribers. The simulation of the network planning process is implemented using OMNET ++ simulation tool. The results indicated that, throughput in uplink and downlink reached to 5.5 Gbps and 8 Gbps respectively.