Millimetre Wave Gigabit Wireless

The Millimetre Wave Gigabit Wireless will provide technology that will enable gigabit speed low cost easy to deploy wireless networks.

 Deployment of today's wireless systems is complicated and time consuming. Even after considerable resources are invested in deploying a wireless network, the dynamic nature of the wireless channel and interference means that the user does not have a reliable and trusted service. Future wireless communication networks need to be able to transport high definition media, be self configuring, self organizing self managing and secure. The gigabit wireless project is developing next generation wireless networks.
 
What will this research achieve?

Federal regulators have recently allocated the 57 to 64 GHz, millimetre wave band, for unlicensed operation. The Millimetre wave gigabit wireless project is developing low cost wireless gigabit-per-second data-rate wireless systems on CMOS. The develop system deploy as an ad-hoc wireless mesh network, facilitating self configuring, self organizing and self managing networks.
           

What are the key features?

 The key feature of this project is the development of a low cost gigabit per second integrated millimetre wave transceiver integrated on CMOS. Fabricated devices include integrate antenna, transmit receive switches, power amplifier, radio, baseband and medium access controller on CMOS delivering multi gigabits per second

 
Research team

Stan Skafidas (project leader), Tim Walsh, Praveen Nadagouda, Gordana Felic, Khusro Saleem, Bryan Beresford-Smith, Byron Wicks, Chien Ta Minh, Yang Bo, Aleck Liu, Frank Zhang, Tom Wang, Jerry Liu, Yuan Mo, Rob Evans, William Shieh

The research team are world leaders in developing next generation millimetre wave systems on bulk CMOS.
 
Contact: +61 3 8344 8407, stan.skafidas@nicta.com.au

 
Participants

NICTA's Gigabit Wireless research project is collaborating with IBM T.J. Watson, University of Princeton, and Georgia Institute of Technology.  The project has received significant support from Cadence, Synopsys, Agilent, Anritsu and Suss Micro Systems and has the ability to probe and characterize devices to many hundreds of GHz.