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Networked beamforming in dense mmWave WLANs

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Panneer Selvam Santhalingam,

Zizhan ZhengAuthors Info & Claims

HotMobile '22: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Pages 102 - 108

https://doi.org/10.1145/3508396.3512871

Published: 09 March 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Densely deployed base stations/access points (APs) are becoming increasingly common in mmWave networks with the need to provide high capacity and reliability to clients. However, frequent beamforming between clients and APs incurs an unacceptable overhead in densely deployed mmWave WLANs with many APs. This paper presents a novel approach of "networked beamforming" where only a small subset of APs are selected for beamforming in each beacon interval in mmWave WLANs. By building a prediction model based on the concept of uncertainty, our networked beamforming scheme predicts the APs whose beamforming information is likely outdated and needs updating. The proposed approach complements the existing per-link beamforming solutions and extends their effectiveness from link-level to network-level. With experimentation, we show that our scheme can significantly reduce beamforming overhead and improve network capacity for dense mmWave WLANs.

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Zhang DSanthalingam PPathak PZheng Z(2023)CoBF: Coordinated Beamforming in Dense mmWave NetworksProceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems10.1145/35899757:2(1-26)Online publication date: 22-May-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589975
Ku HSong JZhang DMohapatra PPathak P(2023)Characterizing Real-time Radar-assisted Beamforming in mmWave V2V Links2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)10.1109/SECON58729.2023.10287507(168-176)Online publication date: 11-Sep-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON58729.2023.10287507

Index Terms

Networked beamforming in dense mmWave WLANs
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Signal processing systems
      1. Beamforming
2. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network experimentation
  2. Network types
    1. Wireless access networks
      1. Wireless local area networks

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HotMobile '22: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

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DOI:10.1145/3508396

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Zhang DSanthalingam PPathak PZheng Z(2023)CoBF: Coordinated Beamforming in Dense mmWave NetworksProceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems10.1145/35899757:2(1-26)Online publication date: 22-May-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589975
Ku HSong JZhang DMohapatra PPathak P(2023)Characterizing Real-time Radar-assisted Beamforming in mmWave V2V Links2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)10.1109/SECON58729.2023.10287507(168-176)Online publication date: 11-Sep-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON58729.2023.10287507

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