Scaling 60 GHz WLANs: Creating and Identifying Opportunities for Multi-User Transmission

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dc.contributor.advisorKnightly, Edwarden_US
dc.creatorGhasem Pour, Yasamanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-31T15:49:34Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-07-31T15:49:34Zen_US
dc.date.created2016-12en_US
dc.date.issued2016-10-17en_US
dc.date.submittedDecember 2016en_US
dc.date.updated2017-07-31T15:49:34Zen_US
dc.description.abstractThe millimeter scale carrier wavelength of the 60 GHz spectrum makes it feasible to pack two order of magnitudes more antennas into the same form factor compared to legacy bands (i.e. 2.4 and 5 GHz band). Prior works in 60 GHz have exploited this large antenna arrays to enhance the link budget of a single user transmission, which suffers from high path loss in 60 GHz. We are proposing a scalable multi-user scheme in 60 GHz WLANs in order to serve multiple clients with multi-Gbps data rate simultaneously in the same environment using the same frequency channel. To this end, we first propose a scalable beam training protocol, which tracks the users for directional transmissions. Then we have designed and evaluated incremental policies that add clients to a transmission sequentially until the AP's resources are exhausted or client link budgets, including interference, are exceeded. We further target polarization diversity and non-uniform antenna partitioning as mechanisms to dramatically reduce inter-stream interference enabling vastly improved aggregate rate. At lower bands, multi-user aggregation is typically achieved by zero-forcing inter-user interference via sender-side digital pre-coding using channel state information at the source. Unfortunately, such techniques do not scale to 60 GHz since (i) 60 GHz transmission is highly directional and lacks the rich scattering propagation environment assumed for most prior work; (ii) even efficient mechanisms for CSIT collection do not scale to large antenna arrays; (iii) prior techniques employ a large number of radio frequency chains (up to one per antenna) which are not feasible in our scenario. Our experiments through over-the-air testbed built over WARP platform and trace-driven simulations show that our methodology can achieve performance near to that of exhaustive search of all possible client combinations, yet with substantially less overhead.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationGhasem Pour, Yasaman. "Scaling 60 GHz WLANs: Creating and Identifying Opportunities for Multi-User Transmission." (2016) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/95560">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/95560</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/95560en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectMulti-Useren_US
dc.subject60 GHzen_US
dc.subjectPolarization Diversityen_US
dc.subjectUser selectionen_US
dc.titleScaling 60 GHz WLANs: Creating and Identifying Opportunities for Multi-User Transmissionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineeringen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen_US
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