Spatial Reuse for Location-Aided Multi-User Beamforming in 60 GHz WPAN Systems

Author

Xiaoyi Zhu ; Congzheng Han ; Doufexi, Angela

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

60 GHz wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are bringing a new wave of high data rate applications because they promise multi-Gbps level communications. This paper exploits the spatial reuse of location information aided 60 GHz multi- user beamforming systems. When the location information is available at the network coordinator, the scheduler chooses a set of maximum angularly separated links to share the same time slot simultaneously. If additional feedback of signal-to- interference and noise ratio (SINR) is known, a location-assisted scheduler is employed to increase the system overall performance. The position error sensitivity is also discussed. The results show that significant enhancement can be achieved by the proposed schedulers for 60 GHz WPAN systems and we observe an accuracy of 98% compared with the error free transmission with ultra-wideband (UWB) localization systems.

Keywords

array signal processing; personal area networks; scheduling; WPAN systems; frequency 60 GHz; location-aided multiuser beamforming; location-assisted scheduler; network coordinator; signal-to- interference and noise ratio; wireless personal area networks; Accuracy; Array signal processing; Interference; OFDM; Signal to noise ratio; Throughput; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2013 IEEE 77th

Conference_Location

Dresden

ISSN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6692764

Filename

6692764