System Level Evaluation of Network-Controlled Repeaters: Performance Improvement of Serving Cell and Interference Impact on Neighbor Cells
Heterogeneous networks have been studied as one of the enablers of network densification. These studies have been intensified to overcome some drawbacks related to propagation in millimeter waves (mmWaves), such as severe path and penetration losses. One of the promising heterogeneous nodes is network-controlled repeater (NCR). It was proposed by the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) in Release 18 as a candidate solution to enhance network coverage. In this context, this work performs a system level evaluation to analyze the performance improvement that an NCR can cause in its serving cell as well as its interference impact on neighbor cells. Particularly, the results show a considerable improvement on the performance of user equipments (UEs) served by the NCR, while neighbor UEs that receive the NCR signal as interference are negatively impacted, but not enough to suffer from outage.
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