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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands have been attracting growing attention as a possible candidate for next-generation cellular networks, since the available spectrum is orders of magnitude larger than in current cellular allocations. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Mattia Rebato , Jihong Park , Petar Popovski , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Michele Zorzi

The availability of large bandwidth at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies is one of the major factors that rendered very high frequencies a promising candidate enabler for fifth generation (5G) mobile communication networks. To confront…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 George C. Alexandropoulos , Symeon Chouvardas

The increasing demand of data, along with the spectrum scarcity, are motivating a urgent shift towards exploiting new bands. This is the main reason behind identifying mmWaves as the key disruptive enabling technology for 5G cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Marco Mezzavilla , Sourjya Dutta , Menglei Zhang , Mustafa Riza Akdeniz , Sundeep Rangan

Compared to the existing lower frequency wireless power transfer, millimeter wave (mmWave) power transfer takes advantage of the high-dimensional multi-antenna and narrow beam transmission. In this paper we introduce wireless power transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Lifeng Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Robert W. Heath, , Marco Di Renzo , Kai-Kit Wong

The millimeter wave (mmWave) bands are likely to play a significant role in next generation cellular systems due to the possibility of very high throughput thanks to the availability of massive bandwidth and high-dimensional antennas.…

Vehicular communications essentially support automotive applications for safety and infotainment. For this reason, industry leaders envision an enhanced role of vehicular communications in the fifth generation of mobile communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-10 Furqan Jameel , Shurjeel Wyne , Syed Junaid Nawaz , Zheng Chang

Millimeter-wave multi-input multi-output (mm-Wave MIMO) systems are one of the candidate schemes for 5G wireless standardization efforts. In this context, the main contributions of this article are three-fold. 1) We describe parallel sets…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks rely on directional transmissions, in both control plane and data plane, to overcome severe path-loss. Nevertheless, the use of narrow beams complicates the initial cell-search procedure where we lack…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanpeng Yang , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Marina Petrova , Ki Won Sung

Triggered by the explosion of mobile traffic, 5G (5th Generation) cellular network requires evolution to increase the system rate 1000 times higher than the current systems in 10 years. Motivated by this common problem, there are several…

Equipping millimeter wave (mmWave) systems with full-duplex capability would accelerate and transform next-generation wireless applications and forge a path for new ones. Full-duplex mmWave transceivers could capitalize on the already…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Ian P. Roberts , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Hardik B. Jain , Sriram Vishwanath

Millimeter wave (mmW) cellular systems will require high gain directional antennas and dense base station (BS) deployments to overcome high near field path loss and poor diffraction. As a desirable side effect, high gain antennas provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sarabjot Singh , Mandar N. Kulkarni , Amitava Ghosh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this paper, a novel coordinated initial access (IA) scheme for clustered millimeter wave small cells (mmSCs) is proposed for the fifth generation mobile communication networks (5G). This solution is a method for efficient and fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Yinan Qi , Maziar Nekovee

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

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) is a promising technique to enhance the network capacity and coverage of next-generation (5G) based on utilizing a great number of available spectrum resources in mobile communication. Improving the 5G network…

Millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicular communica tion systems have the potential to improve traffic efficiency and safety. Lack of secure communication links, however, may lead to a formidable set of abuses and attacks. To secure communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Mohammed E. Eltayeb , Junil Choi , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Robert W. Heath

A critical challenge for wireless communications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is blockage. MmWave signals suffer significant penetration losses from many common materials and objects, and small changes in the position of obstacles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Christopher Slezak , Menglei Zhang , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising solution for coping with the ever-increasing mobile data traffic because of its large bandwidth. To enable a sufficient link margin, a large antenna array employing directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Reza Ghanaatian , Vahid Jamali , Andreas Burg , Robert Schober

Initial access (IA) is a fundamental physical layer procedure in cellular systems where user equipment (UE) detects nearby base station (BS) as well as acquire synchronization. Due to the necessity of using antenna array in millimeter-wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band, which is a prime candidate for 5G cellular networks, seems attractive for wireless energy harvesting. This is because it will feature large antenna arrays as well as extremely dense base station (BS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Talha Ahmed Khan , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

Sharing the spectrum among multiple operators seems promising in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. One explanation is the highly directional transmission in mmWave, which reduces the interference caused by one network on the other networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Abhishek K. Gupta , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath,