Do-It-Yourself Custom-Built Outdoor Testbed for 71–76-GHz Wireless Backhaul Experimentation: Building Your Own 71 GHz Wireless Testbed

Wireless communication technology has been rapidly growing to accommodate the demand for ever increasing reliable and fast connectivity. According to the Pew Research Center, 90% of Americans use the Internet, and an increasing number of people are using smartphones as their primary means of going online 1 , 2 . This growing dependence on Internet access was highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, where 53% of Americans reported that the Internet had been essential to their everyday life during that time period 3 .