Equipment to Support Prototyping for Millimeter Wave Communication and Radar

Abstract

The warfighter of the future will require reliable, easily deployable, decentralized high-speed wireless communication networks for high quality video, imagery, voice, and position data to ensure an information advantage in combat. To meet these demands, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have the potential to support the high bandwidths available at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. Unfortunately, validating many ideas in mmWave systems has remained a challenge. In this equipment grant, our major goal was to improve our ability to prototype mmWave communication and radar systems. Through the grant, we purchased key pieces of mmWave communication and radar equipment. This equipment is allowing us to advance the state-of-the-art in communication and radar research. Ongoing research has been using that equipment to test new ideas in joint communication and radar, as well as to develop new algorithms for radar sensor fusion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 17, 2017
Accession Number
AD1071940

Entities

People

  • Robert Jr W. Heath

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Networks
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Science
  • Frequency
  • Horn Antennas
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Signal Processing
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - Internet of Things