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A Compact and Real-Time Millimeter-wave Experiment Framework with True Mobility Capabilities

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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are crucial for unlocking the potential of future communication systems. Phased arrays play a vital role in generating directional beams, mitigating the high path-loss associated with these frequencies. Consequently, implementing beamforming within the radio is necessary to serve users in various directions. Applications such as AR/VR and vehicular communications demand rapid beam direction changes, typically within microseconds, to maintain stable connections when the user is mobile. In this demonstration, we showcase a mmWave setup capable of switching beams at microsecond intervals, along with a compact and portable user equipment setup for conducting experiments with high user mobility.

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                ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
                October 2023
                1605 pages
                ISBN:9781450399906
                DOI:10.1145/3570361

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