A Fine-Grained Analysis of mmWave Heterogeneous Networks

Abstract: A fine-grained analysis of the cache-enabled networks is crucial for system design. In this paper, we focus on the meta distribution of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) in the mmWave heterogeneous networks where the base stations (BS) in each tier are modeled as Poisson point process (PPP). By utilizing stochastic geometry, we derive the moments of the conditional success probability, based on which the exact expression of meta distribution and its beta approximation are derived. In addition, key performance metrics, the success probability, the variance of the conditional success probability, the mean local delay and the network jitter are achieved. The distinguishing characteristics of the mmWave communications, including different path loss laws for line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight links and directional beamforming are incorporated into the analysis. The simulation results reveal the impact of the key network parameters, such as blockage parameter, bias factor, number of antenna elements and density on the performance.