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Abstract | ||
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Millimeter-wave communication achieves multi-Gbps data rates via highly directional beamforming to overcome pathloss and provide the desired SNR. Unfortunately, establishing communication with sufficiently narrow beamwidth to obtain the necessary link budget is a high overhead procedure in which the search space scales with device mobility and the product of the sender-receiver beam resolution. In this paper, we design, implement, and experimentally evaluate Blind Beam Steering (BBS) a novel architecture and algorithm that removes in-band overhead for directional mm-Wave link establishment. Our system architecture couples mm-Wave and legacy 2.4/5 GHz bands using out-of-band direction inference to establish (overhead-free) multi-Gbps mm-Wave communication. Further, BBS evaluates direction estimates retrieved from passively overheard 2.4/5 GHz frames to assure highest mm-Wave link quality on unobstructed direct paths. By removing in-band overhead, we leverage mmWave's very high throughput capabilities, beam-width scalability and provide robustness to mobility. We demonstrate that BBS achieves 97.8% accuracy estimating direction between pairing nodes using at least 5 detection band antennas. Further, BBS successfully detects unobstructed direct path conditions with an accuracy of 96.5% and reduces the IEEE 802.11ad beamforming training overhead by 81%. |
Year | Venue | Field |
|---|---|---|
2015 | 2015 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (INFOCOM) | Link budget,Beamforming,Telecommunications,Computer science,Computer network,Beam steering,Robustness (computer science),Systems architecture,Throughput,Computer hardware,Beamwidth,Scalability |
DocType | ISSN | Citations |
Conference | 0743-166X | 52 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
2.06 | 15 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Nitsche | 1 | 164 | 6.93 |
| Adriana B. Flores | 2 | 178 | 8.57 |
| Edward W. Knightly | 3 | 4763 | 371.38 |
| Jörg Widmer | 4 | 3924 | 328.38 |