Beam Misalignment in 3GPP mmWave NRShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Conference Proceedings - 2025 25th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2025, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper presents an analytical framework for evaluating beam misalignment in 3GPP mmWave NR systems implementing analog beamforming. Our approach captures the interaction between user mobility, beam sweeping mechanisms, and deployment configurations, focusing on long-term average performance metrics. Specifically, we model the beam misalignment rates at both the base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) as Poisson processes and derive expressions for the expected misalignment duration, misalignment fraction, and overall beamforming gain. The framework accounts for practical constraints in NR such as Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSB) periodicity, TDD frame structures, and SSB overhead. Through numerical evaluation based on 3GPP mmWave parameters, we identify key trade-offs between beam counts, user mobility, and SSB timing, providing actionable design insights for robust and efficient beam management in future high-frequency networks.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025.
Keywords [en]
3GPP NR, analog beamforming, Beam management, beam misalignment, mmWave communications
National Category
Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-370770DOI: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125233Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105016234905OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-370770DiVA, id: diva2:2002603
Conference
25th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2025, Barcelona, Spain, July 6-10, 2025
Note
Part of ISBN 9798331597771
QC 20251001
2025-10-012025-10-012025-10-01Bibliographically approved