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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology is a crucial enabler for next-generation networks because it offers substantially greater available bandwidth. mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems cannot rely solely on fully digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Navid Reyhanian , Parisa Ramezani , Emil Björnson

In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, existing hybrid beamforming solutions generally require a large number of high-resolution phase shifters (PSs) to realize analog beamformers, which still suffer from high hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Ming Li , Zihuan Wang , Hongyu Li , Qian Liu , Liang Zhou

In this paper, we study the design of a hybrid precoder, consisting of an analog and a digital precoder, for the delivery phase of downlink cache-enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) radio access networks (CeMm-RANs). In CeMm-RANs, enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Shiwen He , Yongpeng Wu , Ju Ren , Yongming Huang , Robert Schober , Yaoxue Zhang

The conventional digital beamforming technique needs one radio frequency (RF) chain per antenna element. High power consumption, significantly high cost of RF chain components per antenna and complex signal processing task at base band…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Om Nath Acharya , Ram Kaji Budhathoki , Santosh Shaha

Large propagation path loss and limited scattering of millimeter wave (mmwave) channels create new challenges for physical layer signal processing. Hence, in this article, we propose a photonic hybrid precoding model for mmwave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yahia Alghorani

Hybrid precoding has been recently proposed as a cost-effective transceiver solution for millimeter wave (mm-wave) systems. While the number of radio frequency (RF) chains has been effectively reduced in existing works, a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Hybrid analog/digital precoding in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-ouput (MIMO) systems is capable of achieving the near-optimal full-digital performance at reduced hardware cost and power consumption compared to its full-RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Xinyu Gao , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

Hybrid analog and digital precoding allows millimeter wave (mmWave) systems to achieve both array and multiplexing gain. The design of the hybrid precoders and combiners, though, is usually based on knowledge of the channel. Prior work on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kiran Venugopal , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Nuria González Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

We propose a deep learning-based method that uses spatial and temporal information extracted from the sub-6GHz band to predict/track beams in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. In more detail, we consider a dual-band communication system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

Due to the high cost and low energy efficiency of the dedicated radio frequency (RF) chains, the number of RF chains in a millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is usually limited from a practical point of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Longzhuang He , Jintao Wang , Jian Song

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication is a key technology for future wireless networks. To combat significant path loss and exploit the abundant mm-wave spectrum, effective beamforming is crucial. Nevertheless, conventional fully digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Jun Zhang , Xianghao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief

Hybrid digital and analog beamforming is a highly effective technique for implementing beamforming methods in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. It provides a viable solution to replace the complex fully digital beamforming techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohollah Vahdani , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Hybrid precoding is a cost-effective approach to support directional transmissions for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. While existing works on hybrid precoding mainly focus on single-user single-carrier transmission, in practice…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Neural networks have been applied to the physical layer of wireless communication systems to solve complex problems. In millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid precoding has been considered as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Jing Yang , Kai Chen , Xiaohu Ge , Yonghui Li , Lin Tian

Hybrid precoding can significantly reduce the number of required radio frequency (RF) chains and relieve the huge energy consumption in mmWave massive MIMO systems, thus attracting much interests from academic and industry. However, most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Tian Xie , Linglong Dai , Xinyu Gao , Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir , Zhaocheng Wang

In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, beamforming with large antenna arrays is critical to overcome high path losses. Separating all-digital beamforming into analog and digital stages can provide the large reduction in power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans

The rate loss is an important issue for multi-user beamspace multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter-wave systems. In such systems, multi-cluster channel propagation leads as a function of the quantization error and, as a result,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-18 Md. Abdul Latif Sarker , Md. Fazlul Kader , Dong Seog Han

Future railway is expected to accommodate both train operation services and passenger broadband services. The millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology in providing multi-gigabit data rates to onboard users. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Meilin Gao , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Wen Wu , Peng Yang , Feng Lyu , Xuemin , Shen

This work investigates the problem of downlink transmit precoding for physical layer multicasting with a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. To tackle the RF hardware constraint, we consider a hybrid precoder that is partitioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mingbo Dai , Bruno Clerckx

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications is the key enabler of 5G cellular networks due to vast spectrum availability that could boost peak rate and capacity. Due to increased propagation loss in mmW band, transceivers with massive antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Han Yan , Sridhar Ramesh , Timothy Gallagher , Curtis Ling , Danijela Cabric