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Low-complexity beamformer design with practical constraints is an attractive research area for hybrid analog/digital systems in mm-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). This paper investigates interference-aware pre-beamformer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Murat Bayraktar , Gokhan Muzaffer Guvensen

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems realizing directive beamforming require reliable estimation of the wireless propagation channel. However, mmWave channels are characterized by high variability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Evangelos Vlachos , George C. Alexandropoulos , John Thompson

Beamforming is a signal processing technique where an array of antenna elements can be steered to transmit and receive radio signals in a specific direction. The usage of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies and multiple input multiple…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Snehal Bhayani , Praneeth Susarla , S. S. Krishna Chaitanya Bulusu , Olli Silven , Markku Juntti , Janne Heikkila

Communicating on millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is ushering in a new epoch of mobile communication which provides the availability of 10 Gbps high data rate transmission. However, mmWave links are easily prone to short transmission range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Yi Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Zhiyong Feng

To develop a low-complexity multicast beamforming method for millimeter wave communications, we first propose a channel gain estimation method in this article. We use the beam sweeping to find the best codeword and its two neighboring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Zhaohui Li , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

In order to cope with the severe path loss, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems exploit highly directional communication. As a consequence, even a slight beam misalignment between two communicating devices (for example, due to mobility) can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Joan Palacios , Danilo De Donno , Joerg Widmer

Massive multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) technology is vital in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands to obtain large array gains. However, there are practical challenges, such as high hardware cost and power consumption in such systems. A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 MinKeun Chung , Liang Liu , Andreas Johansson , Martin Nilsson , Olof Zander , Zhinong Ying , Fredrik Tufvesson , Ove Edfors

Motivated by massive deployment of low data rate Internet of things (IoT) and ehealth devices with requirement for highly reliable communications, this paper proposes receive beamforming techniques for the uplink of a single-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Majid Bavand , Steven D. Blostein

There has been a growing interest in the commercialization of millimeter wave (mmW) technology as a part of the Fifth-Generation New Radio (5G-NR) wireless standardization efforts. In this direction, many sets of independent measurement…

In large antenna arrays, hardware power consumption becomes a dominant design constraint, making energy efficiency (EE) a first-class objective alongside spectral efficiency (SE). Microwave linear analog computer (MiLAC)-aided beamforming,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yuchen Zhang , Pinjun Zheng , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Beamforming-capable antenna arrays overcome the high free-space path loss at higher carrier frequencies. However, the beams must be properly aligned to ensure that the highest power is radiated towards (and received by) the user equipment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 George Yammine , Georgios Kontes , Norbert Franke , Axel Plinge , Christopher Mutschler

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. However, most of the existing codebooks adopt pre-defined beams that focus mainly on improving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Yu Zhang , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Hybrid beamforming (HBF) and antenna selection are promising techniques for improving the energy efficiency~(EE) of massive multiple-input multiple-output~(mMIMO) systems. However, the transmitter architecture may contain several parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Hamed Hojatian , Zoubeir Mlika , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

This study considers a point-to-point wireless link, in which both the transmitter and receiver are equipped with multiple antennas. In addition, two reconfigurable metasurfaces are deployed, one in the immediate vicinity of the transmit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Robert Kuku Fotock , Alessio Zappone , Agbotiname Lucky Imoize , Marco Di Renzo

The fundamental challenge of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band is the sensitivity of the radio channel to blockages, which gives rise to unstable connectivity and impacts the reliability of a system. To this end, multi-point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Dileep Kumar , Jarkko Kaleva , Antti Tölli

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

The surge in mobile broadband data demands is expected to surpass the available spectrum capacity below $6$ GHz. This expectation has prompted the exploration of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands as a candidate technology for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yahia Shabara , C. Emre Koksal , Eylem Ekici

Enabling the high data rates of millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems requires deploying large antenna arrays at both the basestations and mobile users. The beamforming weights of these large arrays need to be tuned to guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Young-Han Nam , Md Saifur Rahman , Jianzhong Zhang , Robert W. Heath

Predictive millimeter-wave (mmWave) beamforming is a promising technique to enable low-latency and high-rate ground-air communications for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the high vulnerability of mmWave to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shiqi Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

For massive MIMO public channel with any sector size in either microwave or millimeter wave (mmwave) band, this paper studies the beamforming design to minimize the transmit power while guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) for randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Cheng Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yindi Jing , Luxi Yang