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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

In this paper, we propose a series of novel coordination schemes for multi-cell downlink communication. Starting from full base station (BS) coordination, we first propose a fully-coordinated scheme to exploit beneficial effects of both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-15 Zhongxiang Wei , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong , Xin Kang

Massive MIMO systems are well-suited for mm-Wave communications, as large arrays can be built with reasonable form factors, and the high array gains enable reasonable coverage even for outdoor communications. One of the main obstacles for…

Increased density of wireless devices, ever growing demands for extremely high data rate, and spectrum scarcity at microwave bands make the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies an important player in future wireless networks. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are two critical technologies for next-generation networks, especially in dense indoor environments. However, existing analyses often oversimplify the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Zhi Chai , Jiajie Xu , Justin P. Coon , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Providing guaranteed quality of service for cell-edge users remains a longstanding challenge in wireless networks. While coordinated interference management was proposed decades ago, its potential has been limited by computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Tenghao Cai , Lei Li , Shutao Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang

To establish reliable and long-range millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication, beamforming is deemed to be a promising solution. Although beamforming can be done in the digital and analog domains, both approaches are hindered by several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 ohaned Chraiti , Dmitry Chizhik , Jinfeng Du , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela , Ali Ghrayeb , Chadi Assi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to cope with the expected exponential increase in data traffic in 5G networks. mmWave networks typically require a very dense deployment of mmWave base stations (mmBS). To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Dingwen Yuan , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Joerg Widmer , Matthias Hollick

Millimeter wave (mmWave) signals are much more sensitive to blockage, which results in a significant increase of the outage probability, especially for the users at the edge of the cells. In this paper, we exploit the technique of base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Hui-Ming Wang , Ke-Wen Huang , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication in combination with massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) enables high-bandwidth data transmission to multiple users in the same time-frequency resource. The strong path loss of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza , Ramina Ghods , Christoph Studer

Huge overhead of beam training poses a significant challenge to mmWave communications. To address this issue, beam tracking has been widely investigated whereas existing methods are hard to handle serious multipath interference and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Ke Ma , Dongxuan He , Hancun Sun , Zhaocheng Wang

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Emerging applications involving device-to-device communication among wearable electronics require Gbps throughput, which can be achieved by utilizing millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. When many such communicating devices are indoors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kiran Venugopal , Matthew C. Valenti , Robert W. Heath

Users in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems often exhibit diverse channel strengths, which can negatively impact user fairness in resource allocation. Moreover, exact channel state information (CSI) may not be available at the transmitter,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

Communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies is one of the main novelties introduced in the 5th generation (5G) of cellular networks. The opportunities and challenges associated with such high frequencies have stimulated a number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Paolo Testolina , Mattia Lecci , Michele Polese , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

When operated in the mmWave band, user channels get highly correlated which can be exploited in mmWave-NOMA systems to cluster a set of "correlated" users together. Identifying the set of users to cluster greatly affects the viability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Aditya S. Rajasekaran , Hamza U. Sokun , Omar Maraqa , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Saad Al-Ahmadi

The dynamic nature of indoor environments poses unique challenges for next-generation millimeter-wave (mmwave) connectivity. These challenges arise from blockages due to mobile obstacles, mm-wave signal scattering caused by indoor surfaces,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 April Junio , Rafaela Lomboy , Raj Sai Sohel Bandari , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and millimeter wave (mmWave) are two key enabling technologies for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks and beyond. In this paper, we consider mmWave NOMA systems with max-min fairness constraints.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Jinle Zhu , Qiang Li , Hongyang Chen , H. Vincent Poor

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

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for cellular communication due to its energy efficiency and high achievable data rate. These advantages, however, can be realized only when channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Min Soo Sim , Jeonghun Park , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath