Architecture Design of B5G and 6G Millimeter-Wave Radio Access Network: Using Wireless Communications to Increase Coverage, Capacity and Performance

In the Beyond-5G (B5G) and sixth generation (6G), several advanced techniques are based on high-frequency millimeter-wave wireless communications. This paper proposes the design of a novel B5G and 6G wireless radio access network (RAN) architecture. This architecture aims to be a key enabling factor for significantly increasing network capacity, promoting the deployment of new services, and integrating with the evolution of the previous cellular wireless access network architecture. Furthermore, the proposed architecture is adaptable to the various characteristics of high-frequency millimeter-wave communication. It leverages on the allocation of each layer resources of the different networks for more efficient deployment.