Paper Info
Title
mm-FLEX: an open platform for millimeter-wave mobile full-bandwidth experimentation
Abstract
Millimeter-Wave (mm-wave) technology is increasingly being considered for mobile devices and use cases such as vehicular communication. This requires suitable experimentation platforms to support systems-oriented research to tackle the multitude of problems and challenges of mm-wave communications in such environments. To this end, we introduce mm-FLEX, a flexible and modular open platform with real-time signal processing capabilities that supports a bandwidth of 2 GHz and is compatible with mm-wave standard requirements. mm-FLEX integrates an FPGA-based baseband processor with full-duplex capabilities together with mm-wave RF front-ends and phased antenna arrays that are fully configurable from the processor in real-time. To demonstrate the capabilities of mm-FLEX, we implement a scalable, ultra-fast beam alignment mechanism for IEEE 802.11ad systems. It is based on compressive estimation of the signal's angle-of-arrival by means of switching through multiple receive beam patterns on a nano-second time-scale while receiving a packet preamble. Our implementation is open source and is made publicly available to the research community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3386901.3389034
MobiSys '20: The 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Toronto Ontario Canada June, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7954-0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesus Omar Lacruz122.04
Dolores Garcia220.35
Pablo Jiménez Mateo363.45
Joan Palacios4225.09
Jörg Widmer53924328.38