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On Predistortion Filtering for Switched Beamforming With Phased-Array Antennas

March 26, 2023
Author(s)
Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile
In recent work, we proposed sweeping the antennas of phased arrays and beamforming in postprocessing – what we coined switched beamforming – instead of sweeping beams through analog beamforming – what the arrays are designed for. Not only is it orders of

Optimized Sparse Sampling Lattices

March 7, 2023
Author(s)
Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley
Sparse sampling approaches have been widely studied to achieve less complex measurement systems while maintaining detection performance. In this paper, we derive a new gradient implementation of an alternating projections algorithm that determines the

Wideband Synthetic Aperture Test Bed for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

March 7, 2023
Author(s)
Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley
This paper describes a spherical beamforming implementation for wideband synthetic aperture channel sounders that can be used to predict the scattering performance of an Intelligent Reflection Surface (IRS). An IRS creates controlled propagation conditions

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Automated Chamber Configuration Replicating mmWave Directional Industrial Channel Behavior

January 25, 2023
Author(s)
Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley, Matt Simons
Industrial wireless channels have different characteristics than home and office channels due to their reflective nature. Moreover, the millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless bands can play a big role in improving industrial wireless systems due to their large

Wideband Synthetic-Aperture Millimeter-Wave Spatial-Channel Reference System With Traceable Uncertainty Framework

January 24, 2023
Author(s)
Kate Remley, Peter Vouras, Ben Jamroz, Alec Weiss, Jeanne Quimby, Dylan Williams, Rod Leonhardt, Damla Guven, Rob Jones, Joshua Kast
This paper describes a wideband synthetic-aperture system and the associated Fourier processing for generating high-resolution spatial and temporal estimates of the signal propagation environment in wireless communication channels at millimeter-wave

IEEE 802.11bf DMG Sensing: Enabling High-Resolution mmWave Wi-Fi Sensing

January 16, 2023
Author(s)
Steve Blandino, Tanguy Ropitault, Anirudha Sahoo, Nada T. Golmie
IEEE 802.11bf amendment is defining the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) sensing procedure, which supports sensing in license-exempt frequency bands below 7 GHz and above 40GHz. In this paper, we examine WLAN sensing in the millimeter wave band, i.e.,

Scalable Modeling of Human Blockage at Millimeter-Wave: A Comprehensive Analysis of Knife-Edge Diffraction, the Uniform Theory of Diffraction, and Physical Optics Against 60 GHz Channel Measurements

December 22, 2022
Author(s)
Anmol Bhardwaj, Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic
Human blockage at millimeter-wave frequencies is most commonly modeled through Knife-Edge Diffraction (KED) from the edges of a vertical strip. Although extensively validated through controlled laboratory experiments, the method does not scale to realistic

Radio Spectrum Occupancy Measurements Amid COVID-19 Telework and Telehealth

October 14, 2022
Author(s)
Dan Kuester, Xifeng Lu, Dazhen Gu, Azizollah Kord, Jake Rezac, Katie Carson, Marla L. Dowell, Elizabeth Eyeson, Ari Feldman, Keith Forsyth, Vu Le, John Marts, Mike McNulty, Kyle Neubarth, Andre Rosete, Matthew Ryan, Maija Teraslina
During the COVID-19 pandemic, NIST began a targeted campaign of measurements of averaged power and occupancy rate in the radio spectrum. The purpose was to sample real environments to offer timely insights into data infrastructure where it might be

An SDR-Based Performance Measurement of LTE and WLAN Coexistence

September 12, 2022
Author(s)
Nadia Yoza Mitsuishi, Yao Ma, Jason Coder
In this paper, we report on a software-defined radio (SDR) based test setup to emulate and evaluate the performance of a few wireless coexistence scenarios. The first case we study consists of two long-term evolution (LTE) downlink channels from adjacent

Reference Measurements of Error Vector Magnitude

August 29, 2022
Author(s)
Paritosh Manurkar, Christopher Silva, Joshua Kast, Rob Horansky, Dylan Williams, Kate Remley
We demonstrate the suitability of the IEEE P1765 Reference Waveforms in ascertaining EVM and the associated uncertainties by performing traceable measurements on a calibrated equivalent-time sampling oscilloscope at 44 GHz. With this knowledge, a user can

mmWave Modulated-Signal Measurements for OTA Test

June 24, 2022
Author(s)
Joshua Kast, Paritosh Manurkar, Kate Remley, Rob Horansky, Dylan Williams
We apply a large-signal network analyzer to the measurement of arbitrarily long repetitive millimeter-wave modulated signals transmitted by user equipment generating intermodulation products in an over-the-air test environment. The measurements take

Multi-User MIMO Enabled Virtual Reality in IEEE 802.11ay WLAN

May 16, 2022
Author(s)
Jiayi Zhang, Steve Blandino, Neeraj Varshney, Jian Wang, Camillo Gentile, Nada T. Golmie
Virtual reality (VR) coupled with 360° video has been used in a variety of areas, including gaming, remote learning, and healthcare, among others. The 360° video on which VR applications are based today is mostly low resolution and, in order to improve the

Challenges for 5G and Beyond

May 11, 2022
Author(s)
Jelena Senic
In this paper, we discuss some challenges for 5G-and-beyond communications systems based on our measurements conducted with millimeter-wave (mmWave) channel sounders. One study analyzes path loss at 28 GHz vs. 83 GHz and in line-of-sight conditions vs. non

Methodology for Measuring the Frequency Dependence of Multipath Channels Across the Millimeter-Wave Bands

April 19, 2022
Author(s)
Damla Guven, Ben Jamroz, Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile, Rob Horansky, Kate Remley, Dylan Williams, Jeanne Quimby, Rod Leonhardt
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications promise Gigabits-per-second data rates thanks to the availability of large swaths of bandwidth between 10–100 GHz. Although cellular operators prefer the lower portions of the bands due to the general belief that

A 110 GHz Comb Generator in a 250 nm InP HBT Technology

April 18, 2022
Author(s)
Jerome Cheron, Dylan Williams, Richard Chamberlin, Miguel Urteaga, Paul D. Hale, Rob Jones, Ari Feldman
We report a monolithic microwave integrated-circuit (MMIC) comb generator capable of producing a repetitive narrow pulse (7.1 ps pulse duration) with sharp edges (4.2 ps falling time). The circuit is designed in a 250 nm Indium Phosphide (InP)

Measurements of IP3 and P1dB for Spectrum Monitoring with Software Defined Radios

March 30, 2022
Author(s)
Mike McNulty, Dazhen Gu, Dan Kuester, Payam Nayeri
This paper discusses methodology for characterizing linearity summary parameters of software-defined radio receivers. First, we introduce a highly automated testbed for 1-dB compression point (P1dB) and third-order input intercept point (IIP3). With this
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