A Multi-Gbps Millimeter-Wave WPAN System Based on STDMA with Heuristic Scheduling

Author

Sum, Chin-Sean ; Lan, Zhou ; Rahman, Mohammad Azizur ; Wang, Junyi ; Baykas, Tuncer ; Funada, Ryuhei ; Harada, Hiroshi ; Kato, Shuzo

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper proposes a spatial time-division multiple access (STDMA) throughput enhancement scheme for a multiGbps millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless personal area network (WPAN) system. The system design includes in the medium access control (MAC) layer, an interference-monitoring mechanism and a heuristic TDMA time-slot scheduling engine, and in the physical (PHY) layer, a Reed-Solomon (RS) coded phase-shift keying (PSK) system with selective Rake reception over a realistic 60 GHz multipath propagation channel. The theoretical analysis of the throughput and error performance is verified by Monte Carlo simulations. Firstly, it is found that the proposed STDMA scheme is capable of improving system throughput as much as 100%. Secondly, the co-channel interference (CCI) in a communication link has to be controlled at/below -15 dB in order to achieve the optimum system throughput. Lastly, different tolerable CCI levels to meet respective application requirements are determined.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; cochannel interference; millimetre wave propagation; personal area networks; scheduling; time division multiple access; MAC layer; Monte Carlo simulations; PHY layer; PSK system; Reed-Solomon coded phase-shift keying system; STDMA; cochannel interference; communication link; frequency 60 GHz; heuristic TDMA time-slot scheduling engine; interference-monitoring mechanism; medium access control layer; multiGbps millimeter-wave WPAN system; multipath propagation channel; optimum system throughput; physical layer; selective Rake reception; spatial time-division multiple access; throughput enhancement scheme; wireless personal area network system; Engines; Media Access Protocol; Millimeter wave communication; Phase shift keying; Physical layer; Radiofrequency interference; System analysis and design; Throughput; Time division multiple access; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2009. GLOBECOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4148-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425515

Filename

5425515