Wi-5: A Programming Architecture for Unlicensed Frequency Bands

Faycal Bouhafs, Michael MacKay, Alessandro Raschellà, Qi Shi, Frank Den Hartog, Jose Saldana, Rubén Munilla, José Ruiz-Mas, Julián Fernández-Navajas, Jose Almodovar, Niels Van Adrichem

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Abstract

We present Wi-5, a spectrum programming architecture for radio resource management in unlicensed frequency bands. It introduces a spectrum control plane that offers fine grained allocation of radio resources, flexible configuration of radio and wireless networking parameters, and continuous monitoring of the wireless network status. These features, along with the centralized nature of this architecture, can effectively address spectrum congestion which often occurs in unlicensed frequency bands. To demonstrate Wi-5's capabilities, we show results obtained from emulating various use case scenarios on our open source proof-of-concept.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8535086
Pages (from-to)178-185
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Communications Magazine
Volume56
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018
Externally publishedYes

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