{"title":"Multi-User 60 GHz WLANs: from Standards to User Selection Policies","authors":"Yasaman Ghasempour","doi":"10.1145/3130242.3131497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3130242.3131497","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-user transmission at 60 GHz promises to scale the throughput of next generation WLANs via simultaneous transmission of multiple independent data streams. This feature is identified as one of the main design elements of IEEE 802.11ay, next generation of Wi-Fi standards that promises 100-Gbps communications. In this talk, I will describe the motivation and rationale behind multi-user 60 GHz transmissions as well as the technical challenges, including beam steering and user selection. Specifically, I will experimentally show how the choice of users and analog beams are tied together using a programmable wideband testbed with phased antenna arrays. Instead of the joint selection of users and analog beams, I will describe the design of a low-complexity decoupled structure in which beam training precedes user selection. Finally, I will discuss user selection policies in multi-user 60 GHz systems that are possible due to millimeter-wave radio propagation characteristics.","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114468485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Keynote Address 2","authors":"Haitham Hassanieh","doi":"10.1145/3252908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3252908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129707714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enabling High-Quality Untethered Virtual Reality","authors":"Omid Abari","doi":"10.1145/3130242.3131494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3130242.3131494","url":null,"abstract":"Today's virtual reality (VR) headsets require a cable connection to a PC or game console. This cable significantly limits the player's mobility and, hence, her VR experience. The high data rate requirement of this link (multiple Gbps) precludes its replacement by WiFi. Thus, in this paper, we focus on using mmWave technology to deliver multi-Gbps wireless communication between VR headsets and their game consoles. We address the two key problems that prevent existing mmWave links from being used in VR systems. First, mmWave signals suffer from a blockage problem, i.e., they operate mainly in line-of-sight and can be blocked by simple obstacles such as the player lifting her hand in front of the headset. Second, mmWave radios use highly directional antennas with very narrow beams; they work only when the transmitter's beam is aligned with the receiver's beam. Any small movement of the headset can break the alignment and stall the data stream. We present MoVR, a novel system that allows mmWave links to sustain high data rates even in the presence of a blockage and mobility. MoVR does this by introducing a smart mmWave mirror and leveraging VR headset tracking information. We implement MoVR and empirically demonstrate its performance using an HTC VR headset.","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115341580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Invited Talks 1","authors":"Haitham Hassanieh","doi":"10.1145/3252905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3252905","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116916687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michele Polese, M. Mezzavilla, S. Rangan, M. Zorzi
{"title":"Mobility Management for TCP in mmWave Networks","authors":"Michele Polese, M. Mezzavilla, S. Rangan, M. Zorzi","doi":"10.1145/3130242.3130243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3130242.3130243","url":null,"abstract":"Communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies will likely be a cornerstone for next generation 5G cellular networks. However, providing mobility support for end-to-end applications in mmWave cellular systems is challenging due to the relatively small coverage area of individual cells, and rapid channel dynamics caused by blockage and beam-tracking. This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of TCP on top of mmWave cellular systems with mobility management, detailed modeling of the channel dynamics, and end-to-end network architectures. We show how an efficient mobility management scheme in a dense network deployment can dramatically improve the performance of TCP in terms of both throughput and latency in mobile scenarios with blocking. The study also reveals that, even with fast mobility management, TCP throughput is extremely sensitive to the end-to-end delay with implications on both core network and server location.","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114143382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enabling Seamless Coverage and Mobility Support for 60 GHz Networks Using Pose Information","authors":"Teng Wei","doi":"10.1145/3130242.3131499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3130242.3131499","url":null,"abstract":"60 GHz millimeter-wave networking has emerged as the next frontier technology to provide multi-Gbps wireless connectivity. Recently proposed mmWave network standards, like 802.11ad, have spawned a new wave of applications such as wireless virtual reality and uncompressed miracast. However, due to ultra-high carrier frequency, the 60 GHz radios are extremely vulnerable to propagation loss and obstacle blockage. To combat the intrinsic signal attenuation, the use of highly directional phased-array antennas, with limited Field-of-view (FoV), makes the mmWave links extremely sensitive to user mobility and orientation change. Hence, achieving stable 60 GHz connectivity, even at room-level, becomes a nontrivial task. My research has been focusing on a series of techniques to address these challenges. These techniques leverage extraneous sensing information to facilitate the mmWave protocols, so as to provide room-scale coverage at multi-Gbps bit-rate. In this talk, I will first outline the impact of limited FoV of the 60 GHz radio under mobility, and then present a robust 60 GHz network architecture, in which multiple cooperating APs can complement others' blind spots and together form seamless coverage. I will then describe two design components: pose-assisted link predictor and pose-assisted spatial sharing. They leverage the pose information from mobile devices, and improve the 60 GHz network robustness under mobility through intelligent AP switching and beam selection. Finally, to account for the impact of reflections from close-by objects, I will introduce an environment sensing method, which fuses the pose information with the link quality measurement, to computationally discriminate the refection paths and model their impacts separately.","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131447247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Lens Array Multi-beam MIMO Testbed for Real-Time mmWave Communication and Sensing","authors":"A. Sayeed, C. Hall, Kevin Yifan Zhu","doi":"10.1145/3130242.3131488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3130242.3131488","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter-wave (mmW) wireless is a promising technology for meeting the Gigabit rate and millisecond latency requirements of emerging applications. This promise fundamentally rests on the large (GHz) bandwidths and high-gain/high-dimensional beamforming possible at mmW frequencies. While multi-beam multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operation is necessary for achieving spatial multiplexing, existing systems are limited to mechanically pointed horn antennas and single-beam phased arrays of moderate sizes. In this paper, we report the development of a new testbed architecture for multi-beam MIMO communication and sensing at mmW frequencies. The testbed uses a novel lens array for multi-beamforming and data multiplexing. The paper provides a brief overview of the underlying beamspace MIMO framework, and presents initial measurement results to illustrate three key testbed functionalities: directional communication through the lens array; multiuser commmunication; and analysis of the measurement data, including channel measurements.","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123385339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Invited Talks 2","authors":"Xinyu Zhang","doi":"10.1145/3252907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3252907","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124661475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper Session 1","authors":"Dimitrios Koutsonikolas","doi":"10.1145/3252906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3252906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123453527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Steinmetzer, Adrian Loch, A. García-García, J. Widmer, M. Hollick
{"title":"Mitigating Lateral Interference: Adaptive Beam Switching for Robust Millimeter-Wave Networks","authors":"Daniel Steinmetzer, Adrian Loch, A. García-García, J. Widmer, M. Hollick","doi":"10.1145/3130242.3130244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3130242.3130244","url":null,"abstract":"Putting into practice \"pseudo-wire\" links in wireless millimeter-wave (mm-wave) networks is challenging due to the significant side lobes of consumer-grade phased antenna arrays. Nodes should steer their beams such that they maximize the signal gain but also minimize interference from lateral directions via both their main lobe and their side lobes. Most importantly, interference can be caused by parallel operation of incompatible standards such as WiGig and IEEE 802.11ad and may change very fast. This timing requirement, prevents the use of existing beam switching solutions to mitigate interference. In this paper, we present an adaptive beam switching (ABS) mechanism that can deal with the above timescale issue in rapidly changing interference scenarios. Instead of performing a full beam sweep, the key idea is to only probe beampatterns at the receiver which are likely to avoid interference. In contrast to earlier work, our mechanism does not require any location information nor a detailed shape of the beampatterns. We exploit similarities among side lobes of beampatterns to estimate the performance of all beampatterns without sending extensive probes. To evaluate our mechanism in practice, we develop a customized research platform that allows us to control the beam-selection on low-cost IEEE 802.11ad routers. Experimental results with WiGig transceivers as interference source show that our adaptive beam switching mechanism achieves an average throughput gain of 60% and decreases the training time by 82.4% compared to the original IEEE 802.11ad behavior.","PeriodicalId":240202,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems 2017","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130830672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}