CoBeam: Beamforming-based Spectrum Sharing With Zero Cross-Technology Signaling for 5G Wireless Networks

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作者
Bertizzolo, Lorenzo
Demirors, Emrecan
Guan, Zhangyu [1 ,2 ]
Melodia, Tommaso
机构
[1] Northeastern Univ, Inst Wireless Internet Things, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] State Univ New York SUNY Buffalo, Dept Elect Engn, Buffalo, NY 14260 USA
来源
IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS | 2020年
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Spectrum Sharing; Cognitive Beamforming; Cross-technology Coexistence; 5GWireless Networks; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; UNLICENSED SPECTRUM; LTE; COEXISTENCE; MIMO;
D O I
10.1109/infocom41043.2020.9155498
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
This article studies an essential yet challenging problem in 5G wireless networks: Is it possible to enable spectrally-efficient spectrum sharing for heterogeneous wireless networks with different, possibly incompatible, spectrum access technologies on the same spectrum bands; without modifying the protocol stacks of existing wireless networks? To answer this question, this article explores the system challenges that need to be addressed to enable a new spectrum sharing paradigm based on beamforming, which we refer to as CoBeam. In CoBeam, a secondary wireless network is allowed to access a spectrum band based on cognitive beamforming without mutual temporal exclusion, i.e., without interrupting the ongoing transmissions of coexisting wireless networks on the same bands; and without cross-technology communication. We first describe the main components of CoBeam, including programmable physical layer driver, cognitive sensing engine, and beamforming engine, and then we showcase the potential of the CoBeam framework by designing a practical coexistence scheme betweenWi-Fi and LTE on unlicensed bands. We present a prototype of the resulting coexisting Wi-Fi/U-LTE network built on off-the-shelf software radios based on which we evaluate the performance of CoBeam through an extensive experimental campaign. Performance evaluation results indicate that CoBeam can achieve on average 169% throughput gain while requiring no signaling exchange between the coexisting wireless networks.
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页码:1429 / 1438
页数:10
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