Uzair Akbar¹, Haris Suhail¹, Osama Waqar Bhatti¹, Syed Ali Hassan¹, Sajid Saleem¹, Haris Pervaiz²

¹School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS), NUST, Pakistan

²School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University, UK

Next generation cellular networks have various enablers. This project studies the following 3 enablers in the context of a three tier mmWave - microWave network:

• Heterogenity
• Decoupled Access
• mmWave

Performance metrics like system coverage and data-rate are evaluated under different system configurations and the observed trends and trade-offs are discussed.

O. W. Bhatti, H. Suhail, U. Akbar, S. A. Hassan, H. Pervaiz, L. Musavian, Q. Ni, "Performance analysis of decoupled cell association in multi-tier hybrid networks using real blockage environments," International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Spain, June 2017.