Implementing EDMG Links using IEEE 802.11ad in Wireless Data Centers

Abstract

This paper proposes a 60 GHz hybrid scheme to deliver enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) performance. Based on the IEEE 802.11ad channelization, we propose a flexible FDMA/TDD hybrid radio interface for point-to-point wireless data centers (WDC) communications to achieve an equivalent performance to the IEEE 802.11ay’s EDMG. In light of WDC channel modeling results, we evaluate the performance of the traditional scheme and compare the results to the hybrid scheme. The proposed hybrid scheme eventual implementation is completely transparent to the 802.11ad PHY layer, and can offer up to 27Gb/s aggregated raw throughput.