Handling overflow traffic in millimeter wave 5G NR deployments using NR-U technology

5G millimeter wave (mmWave) New Radio (NR) base stations (BS) are expected to be deployed in areas with extremely high and drastically fluctuating traffic demands resulting in frequent quality-of-service violations in terms of the provided rate at the access interface, especially, during busy hour conditions. As a cost-efficient countermeasure we consider NR unlicensed (NRU) technology encompassing both NR and WiGiG at a single NR-U BS. To ultimate goal of this study is to determine the required density of these NR-U BSs in an area characterized by a certain density of NR and WiGiG users, where NR users may utilize WiGiG technology as long as their rate requirements are met. Joining the tools of stochastic geometry, queuing theory and Markov chains we characterize the sought metric of interest. We then report the dependency of eventual NR UE session loss probability that can be used to deduce the sought density of NR-U BSs as a function of system parameters. Among other conclusions, we reveal that the effect of the antenna array at NR part of NR-U BS is non-uniform and needs to be taken into account planning NR-U deployments. © 2020 IEEE