Backhaul-Aware Dimensioning and Planning of Millimeter-Wave Small Cell Networks Muñoz Luengo, Pablo Adamuz Hinojosa, Óscar Ramón Ameigeiras Gutiérrez, Pablo José Navarro Ortiz, Jorge Ramos Muñoz, Juan José Cell planning Fifth Generation Small cells Heterogeneous Networks Millimeter-wave The massive deployment of Small Cells (SCs) is increasingly being adopted by mobile operators to face the exponentially growing traffic demand. Using the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band in the access and backhaul networks will be key to provide the capacity that meets such demand. However, dimensioning and planning have become complex tasks, because the capacity requirements for mmWave links can significantly vary with the SC location. In this work, we address the problem of SC planning considering the backhaul constraints, assuming that a line-of-sight (LOS) between the nodes is required to reliably support the traffic demand. Such a LOS condition reduces the set of potential site locations. Simulation results show that, under certain conditions, the proposed algorithm is effective in finding solutions and strongly efficient in computational cost when compared to exhaustive search approaches. 2020-11-12T11:32:31Z 2020-11-12T11:32:31Z 2020 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Muñoz, Pablo; Adamuz-Hinojosa, Oscar; Ameigeiras, Pablo; Navarro-Ortiz, Jorge; Ramos-Muñoz, Juan J. 2020. "Backhaul-Aware Dimensioning and Planning of Millimeter-Wave Small Cell Networks." Electronics 9, no. 9: 1429. [doi: 10.3390/electronics9091429] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64222 10.3390/electronics9091429 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI