Demo Abstract: "See the Radio Waves" via VR and Its Application in Wireless Communications

The radio wave is the carrier that transmits information in wireless communications. It propagates across space through a complex and dynamic mechanism. However, the radio waves are invisible, which makes it hard to design wireless communication systems. This demonstration presents a system architecture and implementation via virtual reality (VR) that can make people open the "eyes" to see the radio waves, and provide a novel method of using the radio waves designing and optimizing wireless communication systems. Users can see how the radio waves propagate in a 3D view. Furthermore, channel impulse responses (CIRs) and channel fading properties, e.g., path loss and delay spread, can be derived and visualized through the virtual interface. Also, this demo enables users to investigate the performance of base station (BS) deployment and hybrid beamforming (HBF) algorithms via VR. In a nutshell, this demo is helpful to feel, understand, and use the radio waves to improve the efficiency of wireless communication technologies and systems.