TY - GEN
T1 - Programmable and Open-Access Millimeter-Wave Radios in the PAWR COSMOS Testbed
AU - Chen, Tingjun
AU - Maddala, Prasanthi
AU - Skrimponis, Panagiotis
AU - Kolodziejski, Jakub
AU - Gu, Xiaoxiong
AU - Paidimarri, Arun
AU - Rangan, Sundeep
AU - Zussman, Gil
AU - Seskar, Ivan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/1/31
Y1 - 2022/1/31
N2 - While millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless has recently gained tremendous attention with the transition to 5G, developing a broadly accessible experimental infrastructure will allow the research community to make significant progress in this area. Hence, in this paper, we present the design and implementation of various programmable and open-access 28/60 GHz software-defined radios (SDRs), deployed in the PAWR COSMOS advanced wireless testbed. These programmable mmWave radios are based on the IBM 28 GHz 64-element dual-polarized phased array antenna module (PAAM) subsystem board and the Sivers IMA 60 GHz WiGig transceiver. These front ends are integrated with USRP SDRs or Xilinx RF-SoC boards, which provide baseband signal processing capabilities. Moreover, we present measurements of the TX/RX beamforming performance and example experiments (e.g., real-time channel sounding and RFNoC-based 802.11ad preamble detection), using the mmWave radios. Finally, we discuss ongoing enhancement and development efforts focusing on these radios.
AB - While millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless has recently gained tremendous attention with the transition to 5G, developing a broadly accessible experimental infrastructure will allow the research community to make significant progress in this area. Hence, in this paper, we present the design and implementation of various programmable and open-access 28/60 GHz software-defined radios (SDRs), deployed in the PAWR COSMOS advanced wireless testbed. These programmable mmWave radios are based on the IBM 28 GHz 64-element dual-polarized phased array antenna module (PAAM) subsystem board and the Sivers IMA 60 GHz WiGig transceiver. These front ends are integrated with USRP SDRs or Xilinx RF-SoC boards, which provide baseband signal processing capabilities. Moreover, we present measurements of the TX/RX beamforming performance and example experiments (e.g., real-time channel sounding and RFNoC-based 802.11ad preamble detection), using the mmWave radios. Finally, we discuss ongoing enhancement and development efforts focusing on these radios.
KW - COSMOS testbed
KW - Millimeter-wave communication
KW - Software-defined radios
KW - Wireless experimentation
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U2 - 10.1145/3477086.3480834
DO - 10.1145/3477086.3480834
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85125089199
T3 - WiNTECH 2021 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, Part of ACM MOBICOM 2021
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - WiNTECH 2021 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, Part of ACM MOBICOM 2021
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, WiNTECH 2021 - Part of ACM MOBICOM 2021
Y2 - 4 February 2022
ER -