SANBA-mmWave-SDR

Project: MmWave Beam Alignment Algorithm Designs and Prototyping

This projects focuses on the application of side-information and the non-coherent property of low-cost mmWave systems. An Side-information-Aided Non-coherent Beam Alignment (SANBA) is designed and prototyped with Matlab, USRP and phased arrays.

Publication:

Yi Zhang, Kartik Patel, Sanjay Shakkottai, and Robert W. Heath Jr.. 2019. Side-information-aided Non-coherent Beam Alignment Design for Millimeter Wave Systems. In MobiHoc '19: The Twentieth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, July 02-05, 2019, Catania, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. [GitHub]

Indoor bridge

Lobby

Three different experimental environments

Lab

Block diagram of the mmWave testbed

Real hardware setup

Numerical simulation results



Experimental validation results

Performance improvement achieved by calibration