1. KinPhy: A Kinetic In-Band Channel for Millimetre-Wave
Networks
Mohammed Alloulah
Zoran Radivojevic, René Mayrhofer, and Howard Huang
Mohammed Alloulah, Zoran Radivojevic, René Mayrhofer, and Howard
Huang. 2019. KinPhy: A Kinetic In-Band Channel for Millimetre-Wave
Networks. In The 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor
Systems (SenSys ’19), November 10–13, 2019, New York, NY, USA. ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3356250.3360039
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Bell Labs, Cambridge
Zoran Radivojevic René Mayrhofer Howard HuangMo Alloulah
Bell Labs, Cambridge JKU, Linz Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Next Gen WiFiWiFi
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Challenge networking
orthodoxies
5. Voltage
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Vision: Joint Communication & Sensing for Millimetre-Wave Networks
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Vision: Joint Communication & Sensing for Millimetre-Wave Networks
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Communication and Sensing
Communications Payload
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Vision: Joint Communication & Sensing for Millimetre-Wave Networks
Built-in, high-fidelity sensing mode in next gen networks
Will make possible new compelling capabilities
10. KinPhy Kinetic Physical Layer:=
Micrometre-scale vibrations of phone form factors can
backscatter information to an mm-wave router
Physically oscillating
metasurfaces
Trans’d
Refl’d
Transmitted
Reflected
Node 2
Node N
Node 1
…
19. Metasurface
Precise mechanical actuation for accurate phase modulation of reflected
mm-wave.
μm
Iterative in-house prototyping
Measurement
Display
Control Panel
Excitation
Amplifier
Device Under Test
Microscope
20. Metasurface
Precise mechanical actuation for accurate phase modulation of reflected
mm-wave.
μm
Iterative in-house prototyping
Measurement
Display
Control Panel
Excitation
Amplifier
Device Under Test
Microscope
Device Under Test
Measurement
Display
Microscope
32. Results - Detection Accuracy
1.75 GHz 3.5 GHz
Investigate effects of distance, axial alignment, coding gain, and bandwidth
33. Results - Detection Accuracy
1.75 GHz 3.5 GHz
Finding 1: coding gain compensates for distance and axial misalignment
losses
34. Results - Detection Accuracy
1.75 GHz 3.5 GHz
Finding 2: Using less bandwidth enhances performance
35. Results - Kinetic Signal Strength Indicator (KSSI)
Investigate KSSI in yaw and pitch as a function of distance and coding gain
36. Results - Kinetic Signal Strength Indicator (KSSI)
Finding 3: Decent KSSI even when metasurface was i.e. facing away
from radar
180o
37. Results - NLOS Detection
Finding 4: Many successful demodulations were possible from NLOS
reflections in a cluttered office environment, originating from as far as
12 metres away