MONET: Millimeter-wave Communication and Sensing Integration

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -1000

Executive Summary

Imagine a future where our wireless devices do more than just talk to each other. They can also “see” and “feel” their surroundings, gathering valuable information about the environment. This is the promise of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), and millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies are the key to unlocking its full potential. Leveraging the abundant bandwidth at mmWave band (30GHz ~ 300GHz), which are currently being explored for future generation of wireless communication systems (cellular and Wi-Fi), radar-like precise and multi-target detection can be implemented, with applications in drone detection, physiological monitoring, smart RAN etc. This VIP project, therefore, see to develop new techniques and technologies to make ISAC a reality at mmWave frequencies.

Logistics

CRN

Semester ENGR196 ENGR296 ENGR396 ECE496

Spring 2022 90034 90035 90036 85708

Fall 2022 80343 80344 80345 75344

Spring 2025 89726 86653 86654 88158
Personnel

Advisor Office Hours

Yao Zheng

Email with ‘’[VIP MONET]’’ in the subject line.

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Meeting:

Time Location

TBD HH488, Zoom
Workload

ENGR196 ENGR296 ENGR396 EE496¹ Deliverables²

$ \geq $ 3 H/W $ \geq $ 3 H/W $ \geq $ 6 H/W $ \geq $ 8 H/W

One per group

Indicate the authors of the appropriate sections.

Semester	ENGR196	ENGR296	ENGR396	ECE496
Spring 2022	90034	90035	90036	85708
Fall 2022	80343	80344	80345	75344
Spring 2025	89726	86653	86654	88158

Advisor	Office Hours
Yao Zheng Email with ‘’[VIP MONET]’’ in the subject line.	See

Time	Location
TBD	HH488, Zoom

ENGR196	ENGR296	ENGR396	EE496¹	Deliverables²
$ \geq $ 3 H/W	$ \geq $ 3 H/W	$ \geq $ 6 H/W	$ \geq $ 8 H/W	One per group Indicate the authors of the appropriate sections.

Grading

General Breakdown

Category	Portion of Grade
1- Quality of project work Engagement, pursuit of knowledge necessary for project, contributions to technical progress of project, (396 and 496: contributions to management of project).	35%
2- Documentation and records Design notebook, wiki documentation, presentations, Reports.	35%
3- Teamwork and interaction Attendance to meetings, contributions to team, peer evaluations, team presentations and reports	30%

Breakdown by Deliverable

Deliverable	ENGR 196/296/396	EE496/499	Applicable Categories
Project proposal report	10%	10%	1,2,3
Preliminary design review presentation	15%	20%	1,2,3
Design notebook check	10%	5%	1,2
VIP poster session presentation	10%	15%	1,2,3
Final report draft (proofed by peers)	N/A	N/A	1,2,3
Final recorded video presentation	20%	25%	1,2,3
Final report	25%	15%	1,2,3
Design notebook final check	10%	10%	1,2

Cutoffs

A- B- C-

70% 50% 30%

A-	B-	C-
70%	50%	30%

Iterations

SEMESTER	TOPICS	DOCUMENTS
Spring, 2025	Setup an O-RAN based ISAC System at FR2 band

This course adheres to UH Manoa W focus requirements and ECE Department requirements. So you are required to write 4,000 words or more throughout the semester, split between the proposal and the final report. ↩︎
Reports should be uploaded to the Google Drive before the deadline. Late reports are subject to a minimum 15% reduction in grade. Presentation files (PowerPoint or PDF) should be uploaded to the Google Drive before or immediately after your presentation. ↩︎

5G/B5G Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Assured Aircraft Mission Readiness

Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 -1000

Executive Summary

To improve Mission Capable (MC) and Aircraft Availability (AA) rates, military aircraft require regular maintenance to ensure flight readiness. When aircraft are on the ground and/or in hangars, the signal between onboard radio systems and ground base stations can be subpar due to undesigned antenna angles as well as blockages by aircrafts’ hulls and/or hangar walls, therefore, causing difficulties for in-situ communication and maintenance. To support 5G/B5G aircraft maintenance and mission readiness use cases, the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) 5G initiative is upgrading hangars to support 5G Ultra-Wideband (UW) communication. Typical base stations at these bands may leverage massive antenna arrays to form directional signal beams pointing line-of-sight (LoS) toward receivers, hence amplifying the receive signal strength (RSS) and improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, such LoS communication links can have coverage gaps due to the aforementioned challenges. For example, aircraft can create 5G dead zones (e.g. shadowing) for LoS small cells in hangars. Thus, there is a need for beyond LoS signal propagation to increase 5G signal coverage in aircraft maintenance environments.

Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific) will provide project oversight and support to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) to demonstrate improved 5G signal coverage using beam-steering Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS). Our approach to improve signal coverage uses the electrical actuation of liquid metal (LM) to modify signal reflection and thus reconfigure the gain and phase of an IRS to steer a 5G signal between a transmitter and receiver. In Year 1, we will demonstrate increased 5G band 78 (3.5 GHz) small-cell signal coverage with the proposed IRS and accompanying design control software and algorithms. We will also design an IRS for 5G band 260 (39 GHz). In an optional Year 2, we will demonstrate increased 5G band 260 small-cell coverage by creating an IRS optimized for mm-wave signals. We will also show that the IRS’s link-selection properties can enable multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication for concurrent data transmissions.

Wayne A. Shoiroma | Yao Zheng@UHM

MONET: Millimeter-wave Communication and Sensing Integration

Executive Summary

Logistics

Grading

Iterations

5G/B5G Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Assured Aircraft Mission Readiness

Executive Summary