CAREER: Unifying Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing using Commodity Backscatter

职业：使用商品反向散射统一毫米波网络和传感

• 批准号: 2045885
• 负责人: Parth Pathak
• 金额: $ 57.71万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2045885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Unifying; Millimeter; wave; Networking

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are being integrated into virtually every aspect of our daily lives with applications in logistics, supply chain, healthcare, smart cities, human-computer interaction, tracking, sensing, etc. However, providing high-speed wireless connectivity to these IoT devices remains a challenging open problem. While very high-speed wireless networks such as the next generation 802.11ad/ay WiFi and 5G cellular networks are being deployed using the high-frequency millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum, today’s IoT devices (such as Bluetooth and RFIDs) still primarily operate at lower frequencies (sub-6 GHz) due to their low power requirements. The aim of this project is to develop methods and tools for commodity mmWave backscattering and enable IoT devices to operate at mmWave frequencies. The proposed mmWave backscattering will enable high-speed, low-power, and low-cost mmWave wireless connectivity to millions of IoT devices.The project will investigate commodity mmWave backscatter (called mmIDs) and realize a unified mmWave networking and sensing framework where (i) the mmID devices can be integrated into today’s mmWave networks for their seamless high-speed connectivity and (ii) robustness of the mmWave networks can be improved through the presence of densely deployed mmID IoT devices. The project includes four research thrusts: (1) Robust backscatter communication techniques will be developed where mmID tags can exploit the existing mmWave networking protocol messages to modulate their data; (2) Densely deployed mmWave backscatters will be leveraged for proactive blockage mitigation and mobility resilience in WLANs; (3) A high-speed commodity mmWave backscatter will be devised through symbol translation techniques and self-interference mitigation; (4) The commodity mmWave backscatter will be exploited to enable high-accuracy and low-cost sensing with applications in accessibility. The proposed techniques and protocols for mmWave backscattering will be designed, implemented, and evaluated for emerging commodity mmWave networks such as 802.11ad/ay WLANs and 5G NR. The project presents integrated research and education plan with outreach activities involving high school students from underrepresented minority groups and undergraduate students with disabilities.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.

物联网（IoT）设备正在融入我们日常生活的几乎每个方面，应用于物流，供应链，医疗保健，智能城市，人机交互，跟踪，传感等，然而，为这些IoT设备提供高速无线连接仍然是一个具有挑战性的开放问题。虽然下一代802.11ad/ay WiFi和5G蜂窝网络等超高速无线网络正在使用高频毫米波（mmWave）频谱进行部署，但由于功耗要求低，当今的物联网设备（如蓝牙和RFID）仍主要在较低频率（低于6 GHz）下运行。该项目的目的是开发用于商品毫米波后向散射的方法和工具，并使物联网设备能够在毫米波频率下运行。所提出的毫米波后向散射将实现高速、低功率和低成本的毫米波无线连接到数以百万计的物联网设备。该项目将研究商品毫米波后向散射（称为mmID）并实现统一的毫米波网络和感测框架，其中（i）mmID设备可以集成到当今的毫米波网络中以实现其无缝高速连接，以及（ii）毫米波网络的鲁棒性可以通过密集部署的mmID IoT设备的存在来提高。该项目包括四个研究重点：（1）将开发强大的反向散射通信技术，其中mmID标签可以利用现有的mmWave网络协议消息来调制其数据;（2）密集部署的mmWave反向散射将用于WLAN中的主动阻塞缓解和移动性恢复;（3）将通过符号转换技术和自干扰缓解设计高速商用毫米波反向散射;（4）将利用商品毫米波反向散射实现高精度和低成本的传感，并应用于可访问性。拟议的毫米波后向散射技术和协议将针对新兴的商品毫米波网络（如802.11ad/ay WLAN和5G NR）进行设计、实施和评估。该项目提出了综合研究和教育计划，并开展了涉及少数民族高中生和残疾大学生的外展活动。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

CoBF: Coordinated Beamforming in Dense mmWave Networks

CoBF：密集毫米波网络中的协调波束成形

• DOI: 10.1145/3578338.3593531
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
• 作者: Zhang, Ding;Santhalingam, Panneer Selvam;Pathak, Parth;Zheng, Zizhan
• 通讯作者: Zheng, Zizhan

M5: Facilitating Multi-User Volumetric Content Delivery with Multi-Lobe Multicast over mmWave

• DOI: 10.1145/3560905.3568540
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
• 作者: Ding Zhang;Puqi Zhou;Bo Han;Parth H. Pathak

OmniScatter: extreme sensitivity mmWave backscattering using commodity FMCW radar

• DOI: 10.1145/3498361.3538924
• 发表时间: 2022-06
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
• 作者: K. Bae;Natalie Ahn;Yoon Chae;Parth H. Pathak;Sung-Min Sohn;S. Kim

On the Feasibility of Millimeter-wave Backscatter using Commodity 802.11ad 60 GHz Radios

• DOI: 10.1145/3411276.3412189
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization
• 作者: Yoon Chae;K. Bae;Parth H. Pathak;S. Kim

MILLIEAR: Millimeter-wave Acoustic Eavesdropping with Unconstrained Vocabulary

• DOI: 10.1109/infocom48880.2022.9796940
• 发表时间: 2022-05
• 期刊: IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
• 作者: Pengfei Hu;Yifan Ma;P. Santhalingam;Parth H. Pathak;Xiuzhen Cheng