Effects of Hyper-Dense Small-Cell Network Deployments on a Realistic Urban Environment

In this paper, a realistic urban scenario for a hyper-dense small-cell network deployment is presented, using full 3D building models and 3D ray-optical pathloss predictions. This network is compared to a similarly dimensioned 3GPP-like deployment, in order to emphasize the correlations and the differences between these two environments. Furthermore, different expansion stages of the small-cell deployments in both environments are discussed with respect to the coverage and interference situations.