Queue-Aware Beam Scheduling for Half-Duplex mmWave Relay Networks

Abstract

We focus on two basic millimeter wave (mmWave) relay networks and for each network, we propose three beam scheduling methods to approach the network information theoretic capacity. The proposed beam scheduling methods include the deterministic horizontal continuous edge coloring (HC-EC) scheduler, the adaptive back pressure (BP) scheduler and the adaptive low-delay new back pressure (newBP) scheduler. With the aid of computer simulations, we show that within the network capacity range, the proposed schedulers provide good guarantees for the network stability, meanwhile achieve very low packet end-to-end delay.