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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) spectrum is expected to support data-intensive applications that require ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). However, mmWave links are highly sensitive to blockage, which may lead to disruptions in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mine Gokce Dogan , Jaimin Shah , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli , Wei Mao , Hosein Nikopour , Rath Vannithamby

Ad hoc networks provide an on-demand, infrastructure-free means to communicate between soldiers in war zones, aid workers in disaster areas, or consumers in device-to-device (D2D) applications. Unfortunately, ad hoc networks are limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Andrew Thornburg , Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath

To support the high data rates for latency-critical applications, future wireless systems will employ fully digital beamforming multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. Moreover, mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Faruk Pasic , Mariam Mussbah , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

Fifth generation (5G) and beyond communication systems open the door to millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency bands to leverage the extremely large operating bandwidths and deliver unprecedented network capacity. These frequency bands are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Roberto Flamini , Danilo De Donno , Jonathan Gambini , Francesco Giuppi , Christian Mazzucco , Angelo Milani , Laura Resteghini

Hybrid analog/digital precoding offers a compromise between hardware complexity and system performance in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. This type of precoding allows mmWave systems to leverage large antenna array gains that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

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

Next-generation wireless networks must enable emerging technologies such as augmented reality and connected autonomous vehicles via wide range of wireless services that span enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), as well as ultra-reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-01 Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Regulators all around the world have started identifying the portions of the spectrum that will be used for the next generation of cellular networks. A band in the mmWave spectrum will be exploited to increase the available capacity. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Mattia Rebato , Michele Zorzi

Achieving extremely high-quality and truly immersive interactive Virtual Reality (VR) is expected to require a wireless link to the cloud, providing multi-gigabit throughput and extremely low latency. A prime candidate for fulfilling these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jakob Struye , Hemanth Kumar Ravuri , Hany Assasa , Claudio Fiandrino , Filip Lemic , Joerg Widmer , Jeroen Famaey , Maria Torres Vega

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential for enormous capacity wireless links. However, designing robust communication systems at these frequencies requires that we understand the channel dynamics over both time and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-18 Christopher Slezak , Aditya Dhananjay , Sundeep Rangan

The use of base stations (BSs) and access points (APs) with a large number of antennas, called Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output), is a key technology for increasing the capacity of 5G networks and beyond. While originally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Emil Björnson , Liesbet Van der Perre , Stefano Buzzi , Erik G. Larsson

Inter-operator spectrum sharing in millimeter-wave bands has the potential of substantially increasing the spectrum utilization and providing a larger bandwidth to individual user equipment at the expense of increasing inter-operator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Hadi Ghauch , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund , Carlo Fischione

Wireless communication in millimetre wave bands, namely above 20 GHz and up to 300 GHz, is foreseen as a key enabler technology for the next generation of wireless systems. The huge available bandwidth is contemplated to achieve high…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications plays an important role for future cellular networks because of the vast amount of spectrum available in the underutilized mmWave frequency bands. To overcome the huge free space omnidirectional path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Wolfgang Utschick , Christoph Stöckle , Michael Joham , Jian Luo

Deploying sub-6GHz network together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising solution to simultaneously achieve sufficient coverage and high data rate. In the heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the traditional coupled access, i.e., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-03 Minwei Shi , Kai Yang , Chengwen Xing , Rongfei Fan

In mobile millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, energy is a scarce resource due to the large losses in the channel and high energy usage by analog-to-digital converters (ADC), which scales with bandwidth. In this paper, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Morteza Hashemi , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

Communications at frequencies above 10 GHz (the mmWave band) are expected to play a major role for the next generation of cellular networks (5G), because of the potential multi-gigabit, ultra-low latency performance of this technology.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Michele Polese , Marco Mezzavilla , Michele Zorzi

In this paper, we propose a multi-beam non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems and study its resource allocation. A beam splitting technique is designed to generate multiple analog beams to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Zhiqiang Wei , Lou Zhao , Jiajia Guo , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

The utilization of unlicensed spectrum presents a promising solution to the issue of spectrum scarcity in densely populated areas, while also offering a cost-effective means to connect underserved regions. In response to this potential,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Karim Saifullin , Hussein Al-Shatri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini