Chapter 4 - WiGig Technoligies IEEE802.11aday

WiGig Technoligies IEEE802.11ad/ay

IEEE 802.11 ad

IEEE 802.11ad History

  • announed in May 2009
  • WiGig and Wifi-F Alliane merged in March 2013
  • Wi-Fi Alliance announced the launch of its WiGig certification program in Oct 2016

802.11ad Very High Through(VHT) main specs

  • 60Ghz
  • four 2.16 Ghz and 8Ghz bandwidth
  • Each channels supports up to 6.75675 Gbps (OFDM)
  • Single Channel up to 2.224 Gbps
  • 1-10 meters
  • up to 32 antennas

IEEE 802.11ay

Project Goals

  • Modification to both 802.11 PHY layer and MAC layer
  • enables a maximum throughput of at least 20 Gbps

802.11ay Very High Throughput (VHT) main specs

  • 60Ghz
  • Link rate per stream 20-44Gbps
  • Backward compatible with 802.11 ad
  • With channel bounding provides up to 8.64 GHz bandwidth
    • two adjacent channels within a given frequency band are combined to increase throughput between two or more wireless devices.
  • MIMO support up to four streams (up to 176Gbps)
  • 802.11ay supports 256QAM

ay Future deployments

  • High performance public wifi networks in 2019
  • pre-strandard 802.1ay chipsets strted shipping in 2018
  • Backhaul and node internconnection focus
  • transmitting rates up to 50Gbps at ranges 300-500 meters
  • Nokia, Facebook, Qualcomm ,Deutsche,Telekom , early deployment

Usage Models WiGig technology IEEE

  • Ultra Short Range(USR) Communications
    • NFC, transport card
  • 8K UHD Wireless Transfer at Smart Home
  • Data Center 11ay Inter-Rack Connectivity
  • Wireless Backhauling
  • Office docking and USR Wireless Docking

Author | Billy Chan

Currently studying Information Engineering at City University of Hong Kong.