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T1 Wireless Interface Agent for SDN mmwave multi-hop networks: design and experimental evaluation
A1 Baranda, Jorge
A1 Pascual, Iñaki
A1 Mangues-Bafalluy, Josep
A1 Núñez-Martínez, José
AB Millimeter wave (mmwave) communications will likely bean enabler for 5G due to its multi-gigabit per second throughputcapabilities. Furthermore,mmWave communications willhave to be integrated in a new redesigned network requiredby 5G to fulfill its ambitious targets. In this paper, we presentthe design and implementation of a management agent forwireless devices deployed in a heterogeneous SDN wirelessmulti-hop research platform featuring mmwave communicationsfor crosshauling (backhaul and fronthaul) purposes.The performance of the deployed mmwave network, basedon the IEEE 802.11ad standard, is measured employing thisagent. We measure the downtime in the presence of linkup/down events, with obtained response times in the orderof 10s-to-100s of milliseconds depending on the case. Furthermore,the TCP performance over the multi-hop 802.11admmwave network is also experimentally evaluated. In fact,TCP throughput up to around 800Mbps are obtained for singleand multi-hop scenarios despite neighboring links usingthe same channel. Finally, one can also observe the impactof MTU size on TCP throughput, which may hinder the fullexploitation of the mmWave link capacity when combinedwith other transport technologies, since the advantages ofbig MTUs (much bigger than the typical 1500 bytes) offeredby mmwave devices may not be reaped.
PB Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)
SN 978-1-4503-5928-3
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/28232
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/28232
LA eng
NO 2nd ACM Workshop on Millimeter Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets)
NO Thiswork was supported by MINECO grants TEC2017-88373-R (5G-REFINE), Generalitat de Catalunya grant 2017 SGR1195, and by the 5G-TRANSFORMER project (H2020-761536).
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