Millimetera: Toward a large-scale open-source mmwave and terahertz experimental testbed

Michele Polese; Francesco Restuccia; Abhimanyu Gosain; Josep Jornet; Shubhendu Bhardwaj; Viduneth Ariyarathna; Soumyajit Mandal; Kai Zheng; Aditya Dhananjay; Marco Mezzavilla; James Buckwalter; Mark Rodwell; Xin Wang; Michele Zorzi; Arjuna Madanayake; Tommaso Melodia

doi:10.1145/3349624.3356764

Millimetera: Toward a large-scale open-source mmwave and terahertz experimental testbed

Michele Polese
, Francesco Restuccia
, Abhimanyu Gosain
, Josep Jornet
, Shubhendu Bhardwaj
, Viduneth Ariyarathna
, Soumyajit Mandal
, Kai Zheng
, Aditya Dhananjay
, Marco Mezzavilla
, James Buckwalter
, Mark Rodwell
, Xin Wang
, Michele Zorzi
, Arjuna Madanayake
, Tommaso Melodia

Electrical Engineering

University of Padua
Northeastern University
Florida International University
Case Western Reserve University
Pi-Radio Inc.
University of California at Santa Barbara

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Abstract

The promise of widespread 5th generation (5G) and beyond wireless systems can only be fulfilled through extensive experimental campaigns aimed at validating the large body of theoretical findings on millimeter wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) frequencies. However, experimental research efforts in this field are often stymied by the lack of open hardware, open-source software, and affordable testbeds accessible by the research community at large, who is now forced to perform simulation-based research or – if at all possible – small-scale, ad hoc experiments. After discussing existing research challenges in mmWave and THz testbeds, in this paper we propose MillimeTera, a vision for a new generation of disruptive experimental platforms that will radically transform the status quo in mmWave and THz research. We next discuss our preliminary hardware and software efforts, and finally provide a roadmap of our main design and development goals in the years to come.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	mmNets 2019 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, co-located with MobiCom 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	27-32
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369329
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3349624.3356764
State	Published - Oct 7 2019
Event	3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, mmNets 2019, co-located with MobiCom 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico Duration: Oct 25 2019 → …

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

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Conference	3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, mmNets 2019, co-located with MobiCom 2019
Country/Territory	Mexico
City	Los Cabos
Period	10/25/19 → …

Keywords

5G
Experiments
Large-scale
MmWave
Terahertz
Testbed

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Polese, M., Restuccia, F., Gosain, A., Jornet, J., Bhardwaj, S., Ariyarathna, V., Mandal, S., Zheng, K., Dhananjay, A., Mezzavilla, M., Buckwalter, J., Rodwell, M., Wang, X., Zorzi, M., Madanayake, A., & Melodia, T. (2019). Millimetera: Toward a large-scale open-source mmwave and terahertz experimental testbed. In mmNets 2019 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, co-located with MobiCom 2019 (pp. 27-32). (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3349624.3356764

Polese, Michele ; Restuccia, Francesco ; Gosain, Abhimanyu et al. / Millimetera : Toward a large-scale open-source mmwave and terahertz experimental testbed. mmNets 2019 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. pp. 27-32 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

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Millimetera: Toward a large-scale open-source mmwave and terahertz experimental testbed. / Polese, Michele; Restuccia, Francesco; Gosain, Abhimanyu et al.
mmNets 2019 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 27-32 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

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Polese M, Restuccia F, Gosain A, Jornet J, Bhardwaj S, Ariyarathna V et al. Millimetera: Toward a large-scale open-source mmwave and terahertz experimental testbed. In mmNets 2019 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. p. 27-32. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). doi: 10.1145/3349624.3356764

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