Beamforming in Millimeter Wave Systems: Prototyping and Measurement Results
Information Theory
2018-08-07 v2 math.IT
Abstract
Demonstrating the feasibility of large antenna array beamforming is essential for realizing mmWave communication systems. This is due to the dependency of these systems on the large array beamforming gains to provide sufficient received signal power. In this paper, the design of a proof-of-concept prototype that demonstrates these gains in practice is explained in detail. We develop a mmWave system with digitally controlled analog front-end. The developed prototype uses 60 GHz phased arrays and universal software radio peripheral (USRP) controllers. The software interface of our design is easily reproducible and can be leveraged for future mmWave prototypes and demonstrations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.02425,
title = {Beamforming in Millimeter Wave Systems: Prototyping and Measurement Results},
author = {Cody Scarborough and Kiran Venugopal and Ahmed Alkhateeb and Robert W. Heath,},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02425},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
to appear in VTC 2018, Chicago, USA