Impact of impulsive noise on millimeter wave cellular systems performance

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a resplendent technology for the Fifth Generation (5G) systems. This outdoor cellular system, 5G, is expected to provide internet connections 40 times faster and with at least four times more coverage worldwide than the current 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communications standard. However, mmWave communication system performance could be degraded severely by the non-Gaussian Impulsive Noise (IN) and this will create a cruel task to mitigate such harmful effect and modify the impairments in the system. In this paper, blanking and clipping filters are utilized in order to enhance the capability of the communication system in suppressing IN. The problem of receiver design for large antenna arrays at both the base station and mobile station in the presence of IN is modeled using Gaussian mixture model. The results reveal that the proposed algorithms of blanking and clipping are able to minimize the bit error rate.