High-Speed Millimeter-Wave Mobile Experimentation on Software-Defined Radios
Authors: 
Jesus O. Lacruz, 
Dolores Garcia, Pablo Jimenez, Joan Palacios, 
Joerg WidmerAuthors Info & Claims
Jesus O. Lacruz, Dolores Garcia, Pablo Jimenez, Joan Palacios, Joerg WidmerAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 39 - 42
Abstract
Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) communications have become an integral part of WLAN standards and 5G mobile networks and, as application data rate requirements increase, more and more traffic will move to these very high frequency bands. Although there is an ample choice of powerful experimental platforms for sub-6 GHz research, building mm-Wave systems is much more difficult due to the very high hardware requirements. To address the lack of suitable experimentation platforms, we propose mm-FLEX, a flexible and modular open platform with real-time signal processing capabilities that supports a bandwidth of 2 GHz and is compatible with current mm-Wave standards. The platform is built around a fast FPGA processor and a 60 GHz phased antenna array at front-end that can be reconfigured at nanosecond timescales. Together with its ease of use, this turns the platform into a unique tool for research on beam training in highly mobile scenarios and full-bandwidth mm-Wave signal processing.
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Published: 16 March 2021
Published in SIGMOBILE-GETMOBILE Volume 24, Issue 4
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