Feasibility Study of 60 GHz Millimeter-Wave Technologies for Hyperconnected Fog Computing Applications

Joongheon Kim, Wonjun Lee

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Abstract

This paper conducts the feasibility study for discussing about the interference impacts in advanced fog computing (FC) networks with 60 GHz millimeter-wave wireless technology. With the concept of FC, cloud computing services can be utilized with local computing devices (FC devices) those are located nearby user terminals [edge devices (EDs)] for low-latency communications. Since EDs can be densely deployed in urban areas, wireless hyperconnection should be supportable in FC networks. For the system, 60 GHz millimeter-wave technology can be used as one of wireless networking methods because it can provide: 1) high rates for visual information delivery and 2) high directionality for spatial reuse in hyperconnected FC networks. Therefore, this performance simulation study under the consideration of interference impacts determines whether utilizing 60 GHz millimeter-wave wireless technology for hyperconnected FC networks is feasible or not. Under the consideration of various interference scenarios, the interference impacts are calculated. As presented in simulation-based performance evaluation results, we verify that 1.5 Gb/s high rate can be supportable even though more than 1000 EDs are deployed in the 100 m-by-100 m size small-scale networks (upper bound). Therefore, we confirm that hyperconnection can be realized with 60 GHz millimeter-wave technology for FC networks.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7862220
Pages (from-to)1165-1173
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Internet of Things Journal
Volume4
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Oct

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 23, 2016; revised January 30, 2017; accepted February 14, 2017. Date of publication February 22, 2017; date of current version October 9, 2017. This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea under Grant 2016R1C1B1015406, in part by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, South Korea through the Communication Policy Research Center Support Program under Grant IITP-2016-R7118-16-1025, and in part by the ITRC Support Program through the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion under Grant IITP-2016-R0992-16-1012. (Corresponding author: Wonjun Lee.) J. Kim is with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, South Korea.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.

Keywords

  • 60 GHz
  • fog computing (FC) networks
  • hyperconnection
  • millimeter-wave
  • ultradense networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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