Hybrid beamforming at 60GHz

Details

Supervisors

Louveaux, Jérôme

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [120] : ingénieur civil électricien

Abstract

With the tremendous increase of data traffic around the world, the development of high speed wireless networks is needed. The research community has identified the 60GHz band as promising because this band possesses a large unlicensed bandwidth available. To cope with the large path and penetration losses present at such frequency, new architectures of transceivers have been designed and include dozens or hundreds of antennas allowing the communication to take advantage of beamforming and spatial multiplexing gains. The present work proposes different training algorithms allowing transceivers to exploit their beamforming capability. These algorithms are compatible with the IEEE802.11ad/ay standard (Wi-Fi over the 60GHz band).