Objectives

Our team seeks to understand MAC and networking aspects of THz systems. We consider a variety of topologies including point-to-point links, cellular networks, mesh deployments and UAVs. We explore a range of problems including directional search, control signaling, scheduling algorithms (including SDMA), capacity estimation, congestion control and end-to-end application evaluation.

Approach

We develop and evaluate protocols and algorithms for: (i) MAC-layer and RRC protocols, particularly for directional search, access and control plane signaling; (ii) MAC-layer scheduling algorithms including multi-user and MIMO scheduling; (iii) congestion control. In addition, we will be developing detailed end-to-end simulation tools building on earlier ns3 mmWave network simulation tools.

We interface with several other teams: (i) channel models for range, blocking and dynamics will be supplied by the channel modeling team; (ii) throughput and latency requirements are being developed by the applications team and (iii) device / circuit performance is being developed by the respective teams, (iv) the MIMO team is supplying performance numbers relevant for link-layer aspects. For the applications team, we may seek to develop combined simulation tools that can jointly simulate the wireless links and application.

Accomplishments

Our team has already made significant accomplishments: (i) Developed a comprehensive ns3-based simulation platform for mm-wave and this is being extended to THz. Importantly, the simulator accurately models blockage and core network delays. (ii) The platform has provided the first studies of end-to-end applicaitons and TCP / congestion control algorithms; (iii) first detailed studies of initial access, directional search and search in idle mode; (iv) first complete end-to-end simulations of novel THz applications including UAVs.

Team Leader

Sundeep Rangan

Sundeep Rangan received the B.A.Sc. at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering.  He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Bell Labs.  In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin off of Bell Labs, that developed Flash OFDM, the first cellular OFDM data system and pre-cursor to 4G cellular systems including LTE and WiMAX. In 2006, Flarion was acquired by Qualcomm Technologies.  Dr. Rangan was a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm involved in OFDM infrastructure products.  He joined the ECE department at NYU Tandon (formerly NYU Polytechnic) in 2010.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Director of NYU WIRELESS, an industry-academic research center on next-generation wireless systems.  His research interests are in wireless communications, signal processing, information theory and control theory.

Publications

Publications

S. Hashim Ali Shah & S. Rangan (2022, June 23). Multi-cell Multi-beam Prediction using Auto-Encoder LSTM for mmWave systems. IEEE Xplore [Online]. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9805463.

L. Giridhar, M. Eslami Rasekh, A. D. Sezer, U. Madhow, “Adaptive Space-Time Equalization with Spatial Oversampling for Misaligned LoS MIMO,” presented at the 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Austin, TX, April 10-13, 2022.

V. Semkin, A. Karttunen, S. Kang, J. Talvitie, M. Mezzavilla, S. Rangan, & M. Valkama, “What Positioning Accuracy is Sufficient for Reliable mmWave A2G Channel Measurements?,” presented at the 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, Spain, March 27-April 1, 2022.

M. Yin, A. K. Veldand, A. Trivedi, J. Zhang, K. Pfeiffer, Y. Hu, S. Garg, E. Erkip, L. Righetti, & S. Rangan (2022, March 3). Millimeter Wave Wireless Assisted Robot Navigation with Link State Classification. IEEE Xplore [Online]. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9726790.

S. Kang, W. Xia, M. Mezzavilla, A. Lozano, G. Geraci, V. Semkin, G. Loianno, & S. Rangan, “Millimeter-Wave UAV Coverage in Urban Environments,” presented at the 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, December 7-11, 2021.

M. Yin, T. Tran, A. Sharma, M. Mezzavilla, & S. Rangan, “Demo: SkyRoute, a Fast and Realistic UAV Cellular Simulation Framework,” presented at the 2021 IEEE 29th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Dallas, TX, November 1-5, 2021.

V. Semkin, S. Kang, J. Haarla, W. Xia, A. Lozano, G. Geraci, G. Loianno, M. Mezzavilla, & S. Rangan, “Lightweight UAV-based Measurement System for Air-to-Ground Channels at 28 GHz,” presented at the 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Helsinki, Finland, September 13-16, 2021.

S. Hashim Ali Shah, A. Sundar, & S. Rangan (2021, April 8). Power Efficient Beam Tracking During Connected Mode DRX in mmWave and Sub-THz Systems. IEEE Xplore [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9398853.

S. Hashim Ali Shah, S. Aditya, & S. Rangan (2021, April 8). Power-efficient Beam Tracking During Connected Mode DRX in mmWave and Sub-THz Systems. IEEE.org [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9398853.

S. Rangan, W. Xia, M. Mezzavilla, G. Loianno, A. Lozano, G. Geraci, & V. Semkin, “Millimeter Wave Channel Modeling via Generative Neural Networks,” presented at the 2020 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Taipei, Taiwan, December 7-11, 2020.

P. Skrimponis, C. Studer, S. Hadi Mirfarshbafan, & S. Rangan, “Power Efficient Multi-Carrier Baseband Processing for 5G and 6G Wireless,” presented at the 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 1-4, 2020.

S. Dutta, A. K. Olam, E. Erkip, & S. Rangan, “Capacity Bounds for Communication Systems with Quantization and Spectral Constraints,” presented at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Los Angeles, CA, June 21-26, 2020.

W. Xia, V. Semkin, G. Loianno, M. Mezzavilla, & S. Rangan, “Multi-array Designs for MmWave and Sub-THz Communication to UAVs,” presented at the 2020 IEEE 21st International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Atlanta, GA, May 26-29, 2020.

S. H. Ali Shah, S. Balakrishnan, L. Xin, M. Abouelseoud, K. Sakoda, K. Tanaka, C. Slezak, S. Rangan, S. Panwar (2020, March 28). Beamformed mmWave System Propagation at 60 GHz in an Office Environment. arXiv.org [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12913.

P. Skrimponis, S. Dutta, M. Mezzavilla, S. Rangan, S. H. Mirfarshbi, C. Studer, J. F. Buckwalter, & M. Rodwell, “Power Consumption Analysis for Mobile MmWave and Sub-THz Receivers,” presented at the 2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT), Levi, Finland, March 17-20, 2020.

V. Semkin, J. Haarla, T. Pairon, C. Slezak, S. Rangan, V. Viikari, C. Oesteges (2020, March 11). Analyzing Radar Cross Section Signatures of Diverse Drone Models at mmWave Frequencies. IEEE Access [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9032332.

C. Fischione, D. Koutsonikos, S. Rangan, L. Simic, J. Widmer, X. Zhang, & A. Zhou (2019, December 1). Guest Editorial Millimeter-Wave Networking. IEEE Xplore [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8962118.

S. Dutta, C. Barati, D. Ramirez, A. Dhananjay, J. Buckwalter & S. Rangan. (2019, Oct). A Case for Digital Beamforming at mmWave. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications [Online]. 10.1109/TWC.2019.2948329. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8883297

W. Xia, M. Polese, M. Mezzavilla, G. Loianno, S. Rangan, & M. Zorzi. “Millimeter Wave Remote UAV Control and Communications for Public Safety Scenarios,” presented at the 2019 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), Boston, MA, June 10-13, 2019.

S. H. A. Shah, S. Aditya, S. Dutta, C. Slezak, & S. Rangan. “Power Efficient Discontinuous Reception in THz and mmWave Wireless Systems,” presented at the 2019 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, France, July 2-5, 2019.

G. Bielsa, M. Mezzavilla, J. Widmer, & S. Rangan. “Performance Assessment of Off-the-Shelf mmWave Radios for Drone Communications,” presented at the 2019 IEEE 20th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM), Washington, D.C., June 10-12, 2019.

M. Zhang. “Will TCP Work in Low Latency Networks.” PhD Thesis, New York University, 2019.

M. Giordani, M. Polese, M. Mezzavilla, S. Rangan, & M. Zorzi. (2019, March 28). Towards 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies. arXiv.org [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12216.

M. Zhang, M. Polese, M. Mezzavilla, J. Zhu, S. Rangan, S. Panwar, and A. M. Zorzi, “Will TCP Work in mmWave 5G Cellular Networks?,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 65–71, 2019. 

C. Slezak, V. Semkin, S. Andreev, Y. Koucheryavy and S. Rangan, "Empirical Effects of Dynamic Human-Body Blockage in 60 GHz Communications," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 60-66, December 2018

A. Nogoy. “An Investigation in the Quantization Effects on Automotive FMCW.” MS Thesis, New York University, USA, 2018.

C. Herranz, M. Zhang, M. Mezzavilla, D. Martin-Sacristán, S. Rangan and J. F. Monserrat, "A 3GPP NR Compliant Beam Management Framework to Simulate End-to-end mmwave Networks," The 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct. 2018, pp. 119-125

C. Slezak, M. Zhang, M. Mezzavilla and S. Rangan, "Understanding End-to-End Effects of Channel Dynamics in Millimeter Wave 5G New Radio," 2018 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Kalamata, 2018, pp. 1-5