CAREER: Agile and Scalable Millimeter Wave Networks

职业：敏捷且可扩展的毫米波网络

• 批准号: 1750725
• 负责人: Romit Roy Choudhury
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1750725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Agile; Scalable; Millimeter; Wave

The ever-increasing demands for mobile and wireless data have placed a huge strain on wireless networks, and have led the Federal Communications Commission to release more than 14 GigaHerz of bandwidth for both licensed and unlicensed use in the millimeter wave frequency bands. Millimeter Wave (mmWave) bands are expected to deliver multi-Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) wireless data rates that will be central to next-generation (5G) cellular networks as well as wireless local networks. Networks using these bands will also enable new applications such as virtual and augmented reality, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and a surge of multimedia and Internet-of-Things traffic. Millimeter wave technology, however, is fundamentally different from existing wireless technologies such as WiFi and cellular networks due to its physical properties, including directionality, wide bandwidth, and sparsity. As a result, today's mmWave systems face new challenges, in terms of mobility, medium access, and control overhead, which prevent them from scaling and supporting mobile networks. The research proposed in this project will address these challenges to unleash the potential of mmWave technologies. The project will design and build practical, scalable, mobile millimeter-wave networks for next generation communication systems. The project will also integrate mmWave communication into novel applications like virtual reality (VR) and self-driving cars. The proposed research will be disseminated through close collaboration with industry and publication in top research venues. It will also be integrated into education through the design of new undergraduate and graduate wireless classes and involvement in community outreach programs. The proposal will enable practical, agile and mobile mmWave networks and integrate them into higher layer applications. It will address the above challenges by introducing novel cross-layer protocols that exploit the underlying sparsity of mmWave networks to deliver new protocols that can perform beam alignment, tracking, interference management and scheduling in real-time and with low overhead that allows them to scale to large networks. The proposed research will be executed in three key thrusts: (1) It will develop link establishment protocols that can discover the best alignment between access points and clients and track the client's direction. (2) It will develop new medium access control protocols that will scale mmWave to multi-link networks. (3) It will integrate mmWave networks into higher layer applications like VR and self-driving cars by developing a joint communication and sensing system. The proposal will design, build and empirically test the proposed systems in wireless testbeds.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

对移动的和无线数据的不断增长的需求已经对无线网络施加了巨大的压力，并且已经导致联邦通信委员会释放超过14千兆赫兹的带宽用于毫米波频带中的许可和未许可使用。毫米波（mmWave）频段预计将提供每秒数千兆位（Gbps）的无线数据速率，这将是下一代（5G）蜂窝网络以及无线本地网络的核心。使用这些频段的网络还将实现新的应用，如虚拟和增强现实、车对车通信以及多媒体和物联网流量的激增。然而，毫米波技术由于其物理特性（包括方向性、宽带宽和稀疏性）而与现有的无线技术（诸如WiFi和蜂窝网络）根本不同。因此，今天的毫米波系统在移动性、介质接入和控制开销方面面临新的挑战，这阻止了它们扩展和支持移动的网络。本项目中提出的研究将解决这些挑战，以释放毫米波技术的潜力。该项目将为下一代通信系统设计和构建实用的、可扩展的、移动的毫米波网络。该项目还将毫米波通信集成到虚拟现实（VR）和自动驾驶汽车等新应用中。拟议的研究将通过与行业的密切合作和在顶级研究场所的出版物进行传播。它还将通过设计新的本科生和研究生无线课程以及参与社区外展计划来融入教育。该提案将实现实用、灵活和移动的毫米波网络，并将其集成到更高层应用中。它将通过引入新的跨层协议来解决上述挑战，这些协议利用毫米波网络的底层稀疏性来提供新的协议，这些协议可以实时执行波束对准，跟踪，干扰管理和调度，并且开销低，允许它们扩展到大型网络。本研究将在三个关键点上进行：（1）开发链路建立协议，该协议可以发现接入点和客户端之间的最佳对准，并跟踪客户端的方向。(2)它将开发新的媒体访问控制协议，将毫米波扩展到多链路网络。(3)它将通过开发联合通信和传感系统，将毫米波网络集成到VR和自动驾驶汽车等高层应用中。该提案将在无线测试台上设计、构建和实证测试拟议的系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Enabling IoT self-localization using ambient 5G mmWave signals

使用环境 5G 毫米波信号实现物联网自定位

• DOI: 10.1145/3546037.3546061
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: SIGCOMM '22: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '22 Poster and Demo Sessions
• 作者: Guan, Junfeng;Jog, Suraj;Madani, Sohrab;Lu, Ruochen;Gong, Songbin;Vasisht, Deepak;Hassanieh, Haitham
• 通讯作者: Hassanieh, Haitham

Radatron: Accurate Detection Using Multi-resolution Cascaded MIMO Radar

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19842-7_10
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Sohrab Madani;Jayden Guan;Waleed Ahmed;Saurabh Gupta;Haitham Hassanieh

Many-to-Many Beam Alignment in Millimeter Wave Networks

毫米波网络中的多对多波束对准

• DOI: 10.5555/3323234.3323297
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: NSDI'19
• 作者: Jog, Suraj;Wang, Jiaming;Guan, Junfeng;Moon, Thomas;Hassanieh, Haitham;Choudhury, Romit Roy
• 通讯作者: Choudhury, Romit Roy

Enabling Dense Spatial Reuse in mmWave Networks

在毫米波网络中实现密集空间重用

• DOI: 10.1145/3234200.3234241
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication ­ SIGCOMM '18
• 作者: Jog, Suraj;Wang, Jiaming;Hassanieh, Haitham;Choudhury, Romit Roy
• 通讯作者: Choudhury, Romit Roy

Fast millimeter wave beam alignment

• DOI: 10.1145/3230543.3230581
• 发表时间: 2018-08
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
• 作者: Haitham Hassanieh;Omid Salehi-Abari;Michael Rodriguez;M. Abdelghany;D. Katabi;P. Indyk