Title
Performance and Pitfalls of 60 GHz WLANs Based on Consumer-Grade Hardware
Abstract
Wireless networks operating in the 60 GHz band have the potential to provide very high throughput but face a number of challenges (e.g., high attenuation, beam training, and coping with mobility) which are widely accepted but often not well understood in practice. Understanding these challenges, and especially their actual impact on consumer-grade hardware is fundamental to fully exploit the high physical layer rates in the 60 GHz band. To this end, we perform an extensive measurement campaign using two commercial off-the-shelf 60 GHz routers in real-world environments. Our results allow us to revisit a range of issues and provide much deeper insights into the reasons for specific performance compared to prior work on performance characterization. Further, our study goes beyond basic link characterization and explores for the first time practical considerations such as coverage and access point deployment. While some of our observations are expected, we also obtain highly surprising insights that challenge the prevailing wisdom in the community. We derive the shortcomings of current commercial 60 GHz devices, and the fundamental problems that remain open on the way to fast and efficient 60 GHz networking.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TMC.2020.2967386
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
60 GHz,802.11ad,performance evaluation,COTS devices
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1536-1233
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10