Title of Paper:A Novel Approximate Antenna Pattern for Directional Antenna Arrays

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First Author:Deng, Na

Correspondence Author:Deng, N (reprint author), Dalian Univ Technol, Sch Informat & Commun Engn, Dalian 116024, Peoples R China.

Co-author:Haenggi, Martin

Date of Publication:2018-10-01

Journal:IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS

Included Journals:SCIE

Volume:7

Issue:5

Page Number:832-835

ISSN No.:2162-2337

Key Words:Directional antenna arrays; antenna pattern approximation; mm-wave; success probability; stochastic geometry

Abstract:The antenna pattern model plays a key role in evaluating the performance benefits of directional antenna arrays. In this letter, we propose a novel antenna pattern, named multi-cosine antenna pattern, to approximate the actual antenna pattern, and apply it to millimeter wave (mm-wave) networks. To get deep insights on the role of directional antenna arrays in mm-wave networks, we derive exact expressions for the success probability of the typical receiver as well as a tight upper bound. The results show that the proposed antenna pattern provides a better tradeoff between the accuracy and the tractability in terms of both antenna pattern and analysis than previous models.