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This paper considers the problem of beam alignment in a cell-free massive MIMO deployment with multiple access points (APs) and multiple user equipments (UEs) simultaneously operating in the same millimeter wave frequency band. Assuming the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Xiaofeng Wu

Use of aerial base stations (ABSs) is a promising approach to enhance the agility and flexibility of future wireless networks. ABSs can improve the coverage and/or capacity of a network by moving supply towards demand. Deploying ABSs in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Elham Kalantari , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

Global localization is essential for autonomous robotics, especially in indoor environments where the GPS signal is denied. We propose a novel WiFi-based localization framework that leverages ubiquitous wireless infrastructure and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xu Ma , Jiajie Zhang , Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger

Cell-free wireless communication is envisioned as one of the most promising network architectures, which can achieve stable and uniform communication performance while improving the system energy and spectrum efficiency. The deployment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Zhuoyin Dai , Jingran Xu , Xiaoli Xu , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng

In indoor areas such as homes and offices, high throughput communication for multiple devices is quickly becoming a necessity. Even though an access point (AP) mounted with an omni-directional antenna can cover a whole room, it cannot…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Wei Sun

We propose a hybrid architecture that integrates RF (i.e., sub-6 GHz) and millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies for 5G cellular systems. In particular, communications in the mmWave band faces significant challenges due to variable channels,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Morteza Hashemi , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

Beamforming is indispensable in the operation of 60-GHz millimeter-wave directional multi-gigabit Wi-Fi. Simple power method and its extensions enable the transmitting and receiving antenna arrays to form a beam for single spatial stream.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Keang-Po Ho , Shi Cheng , Jianhan Liu

Wireless local area network (WLAN) access points (APs) are being deployed in high density to improve coverage and throughput. The emerging multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) implementation for uplink (UL) transmissions promises high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Phillip B. Oni , Steven D. Blostein

Beamforming (BF) is essential for enhancing system capacity in fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks, yet exhaustive beam training in ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems incurs substantial overhead. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Yanliang Jin , Yunfan Li , Jiang Jun , Yuan Gao , Shengli Liu , Jianbo Du , Zhaohui Yang , Shugong Xu

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

In the next generation wireless networks, the growing demand for new wireless applications is accompanied with high expectations for better quality of service (QoS) fulfillment especially for multimedia applications. Furthermore, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Ayman Khalil , Matthieu Crussiere , Jean-Francois Helard

Due to heavy reliance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless systems on directional links, Beamforming (BF) with high-dimensional arrays is essential for cellular systems in these frequencies. How to perform the array processing in a power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Sourjya Dutta , C. Nicolas Barati , Aditya Dhananjay , Sundeep Rangan

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), known as Wi-Fi, have become an essential service in university environments that helps staff, students and guests to access connectivity to the Internet from their mobile devices. Apart from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Farhana Binte Kamrul Easha , Robert Abbas , Matthew Daley

This paper presents a tutorial for network multiple-input and multiple-output (netMIMO) in wireless local area networks (WLAN). Wireless traffic demand is growing exponentially. NetMIMO allows access points (APs) in a WLAN to cooperate in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Hong Huang , Hajar Barani , Hussein Al-Azzawi

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are expected to play a central role in future 6G infrastructures, yet uplink transmissions of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) remain vulnerable to eavesdropping due to their limited transmit power,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wei Shi , Wei Xu , Yongming Huang , Jiacheng Yao , Wenhao Hu , Dongming Wang

Device density in cellular networks is expected to increase considerably in the next future. Accordingly, the access point (AP) will equip massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) antennas, using collimated millimeter-wave (mmW) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi , Umberto Spagnolini

The recent increase in number of wireless devices has been driven by the growing markets of smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT). As a result, expanding and/or efficient utilization of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum is critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

Wireless sensing is a promising technology for future wireless communication networks to realize various application services. Wireless local area network (WLAN)-based localization approaches using channel state information (CSI) have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Osamu Muta , Kazuki Noguchi , Junsuke Izumi , Shunsuke Shimizu , Tomoki Murakami , Shinya Otsuki

The link misalignment and high susceptibility to blockages are the biggest hurdles in realizing 60GHz based wireless local area networks (WLANs). However, much of the previous studies investigating 60GHz alignment and blockage issues do not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Kishor Chandra Joshi , Rizqi Hersyandika , R. Venkatesha Prasad

Future wireless networks need to offer orders of magnitude more capacity to address the predicted growth in mobile traffic demand. Operators to enhance the capacity of cellular networks are increasingly using WiFi to offload traffic from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Jose Moura , Christopher Edwards