Title
Optimizing mmWave Spatial Reuse: Signal-To-Interference Aware Beamtraining
Abstract
Both IEEE 802.15.3c and 802.11ad use the 60 GHz band for high datarate Wireless Personal/Local Area Network applications. These millimeter-wave communications use very directional antennas since the small wavelength allows to integrate many small antenna elements to form a beamforming antenna array, enabling very high spatial reuse as can be found in dense indoor and IoT settings. However, earlier work shows that current mmWave systems are not as directional as theory would suggest, with significant interference that may prevent spatial reuse. In this work, we propose a centralized system that allows the network to carry out the beamtraining process not only to maximize signal power, but also taking into account other stations in order to minimize interference. This system is designed to work with unmodified clients. We implement and validate our system on commercial off-the-shelf 60 GHz hardware, achieving an average throughput gain of 24.67% for TCP traffic, and up to a twofold throughput gain in specific cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/WoWMoM.2019.8792988
2019 IEEE 20th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
millimeter-wave communications,directional antennas,antenna elements,beamforming antenna array,high spatial reuse,current mmWave systems,centralized system,beamtraining process,signal power,signal-to-interference aware beamtraining,IEEE 802.15.3c,IEEE 802.11ad,mmWave spatial reuse optimization,dense indoor setting,IoT setting,frequency 60.0 GHz
Conference
978-1-7281-0271-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guillermo Bielsa161.49
Adrian Loch28314.54
Jörg Widmer33924328.38