@INPROCEEDINGS{Moro2204:Boosting,
AUTHOR="Paolo Fiore and Eugenio Moro and Ilario Filippini and Antonio Capone and
Danilo {De Donno}",
TITLE="Boosting {5G} mm-Wave {IAB} Reliability with Reconfigurable Intelligent
Surfaces",
BOOKTITLE="2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (IEEE
WCNC 2022)",
ADDRESS="Austin, USA",
DAYS=10,
MONTH=apr,
YEAR=2022,
KEYWORDS="reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; mm-Wave; IAB network planning",
ABSTRACT="The introduction of the mm-Wave spectrum into 5G NR promises to bring about
unprecedented data throughput to future mobile wireless networks but comes
with several challenges.
Network densification has been proposed as a viable solution to increase
RAN resilience, and the newly introduced IAB is considered a key enabling
technology with compelling cost-reducing opportunities for such dense
deployments. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have recently gained
extreme popularity as they can create Smart Radio Environments by EM wave
manipulation and behave as inexpensive passive relays. However, it is not
yet clear what role this technology can play in a large RAN deployment.
With the scope of filling this gap, we study the blockage resilience of
realistic mm-Wave RAN deployments that use IAB and RIS. The RAN layouts
have been optimised by means of a novel mm-Wave planning tool based on MILP
formulation. Numerical results show how adding RISs to IAB deployments can
provide high blockage resistance levels while significantly reducing the
overall network planning cost"
}