Developing Network Tools for 60G Technology

Abstract

In the era of new technologies, wireless is the area which is growing exponentially in terms of throughput. But it is still far away from the throughput of wired networks which stops it to be used by bandwidth demanding applications. 60 GHz is an unlicensed band which is available with 7 GHz of spectrum that provides wired like speeds. This can be used to replace the existing applications which requires wired networks. As it is new technology, it has new specifications and updated protocol formats. Thus, it requires changes in existing debugging tools to support this technology. For this existing tools should be extended to support this technology. One of the tool is wireshark which has been extended for debugging message exchange of 60G. Apart from this there is a network protocol stack which will be using 60G as well as other mediums like ethernet, WiFi etc. as radio interface, this is known as Media Agnostic Universal Serial Bus (MA USB). Here USB Request Blocks (URBs) are transferred via wireless medium from one host to de- vices (e.g. printer, computer, hub etc.). Targeted use case is multi-media streaming and hence it is needed to have UDP support in the transport layer to stream efficiently. This work adds this protocol over UDP/IP. Another feature is Seamless connectivity which is a prime demand as the connections of the users should be as less affected by the network failure as possible. This feature has also been implemented in this work.