Mobile and Personal Communications in the 60 GHz Band: A Survey
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Virtual Cellular Network: A New Wireless Communications Architecture with Multiple Access Ports
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Performance of 60 GHz Virtual Cellular Networks Using Multiple Receiving Antennas
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Exploiting the 60 GHz band for local wireless multimedia access: prospects and future directions
IEEE Communications Magazine
A handover scheme based on moving extended cells for 60 GHz radio-over-fiber networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Performance evaluation of handoff algorithms applied in vehicular 60GHz radio-over-fiber networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
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In order to satisfy the increasing demand of wireless broadband multimedia services, much attention has been paid to the 60GHz band where as much as 5GHz of spectrum has been reserved. However, in the indoor environment, the propagation of signals at this millimeter wave band is strongly hindered by walls, people and their movement, furniture, etc. As a result, a mobile user might experience frequent loss of connection as the user moves from one cell to another. In this paper, we propose a flexible and cost-effective Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) based network architecture to support indoor networking at millimeter wave bands. To create sufficient overlap areas between cells and thus to ensure a seamless communication environment for mobile users, the concept of Extended Cell is introduced. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture with a detailed simulation study of an indoor scenario. Furthermore, we analyze the impact of the architecture on the performance of two popular state-of-the-art protocols, namely IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16, to find which Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is suitable for RoF networks.