Design of 3GPP-based Millimeter-Wave Band Wireless Virtual Community Network

This paper first summarizes the specifications of standardized wireless personal area networks (WPANs) and wireless local-area networks (WLANs) using the 60 GHz band, for example IEEE 802.15.3c and 802.11ad standards, and the significance of the standardization, together with the standardization transition of third-generation partnership project (3GPP)-based public wireless communication systems and other radio systems in the 2010s. The concept of a virtual community network (VCN) using a millimeter-wave wireless communication system in the 6G era is then proposed based on the 3GPP-based orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) system. Moreover, by using a latest propagation characteristics model of the 60-GHz propagation characteristics in 3GPP, we evaluated the block error rate (BLER) performance of the proposed VCN by changing the parameters of the physical layer such as the subcarrier spacing (SCS) through computer simulation. The results showed that a transmission distance of 5 m per terminal could be achieved even with a low-gain antenna, demonstrating the feasibility of a VCN based on the high-density installation of many terminals in a room.