A Multi-Band mm-Wave Experimental Platform Towards Environment-Aware Beam Management in the Beyond-5G Era

Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking, pp. 1882–1889

Abstract

Agile beam management is key to seamless high-speed mm-wave connectivity in the beyond-5G era, given the site-specific spatio-temporal variations of the mm-wave channel. Leveraging non-RF sensor inputs for environment awareness, e.g. via ML techniques, can greatly enhance RF-based beam management. To address the lack of diverse publicly available multi-modal mm-wave datasets for the design of novel beam management approaches and to enable their real-world, real-time evaluation, we present our SDR-based multi-band mm-wave experimental platform which integrates multi-modal sensors towards environment-aware beam management.

Authors 6

1. Aron Schott Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

2. Aleksandar Ichkov Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

3. Berk Acikgöz Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

4. Niklas Beckmann Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

5. Lennart Reiher Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

6. Ljiljana Simić Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany