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Predicting the millimeter wave (mmWave) beams and blockages using sub-6GHz channels has the potential of enabling mobility and reliability in scalable mmWave systems. These gains attracted increasing interest in the last few years. Prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Due to its static protocol design, IEEE 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi) channel access lacks adaptability to address dynamic network conditions, resulting in inefficient spectrum utilization, unnecessary contention, and packet collisions. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Miguel Casasnovas , Francesc Wilhelmi , Richard Combes , Maksymilian Wojnar , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Anders Jonsson , Luis Esteve , Boris Bellalta

Beam alignment (BA) is a crucial process in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, enabling precise directional transmission and efficient link establishment. However, due to characteristics like omnidirectional exposure and the broadcast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yulin Teng , Keshuang Han , Pinchang Zhang , Xiaohong Jiang , Yulong Shen , Fu Xiao

Narrow beams are key to wireless communications in millimeter wave frequency bands. Beam alignment (BA) allows the base station (BS) to adjust the direction and width of the beam used for communication. During BA, the BS transmits a number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Abbas Khalili , Shahram Shahsavari , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Elza Erkip

Millimeter wave (mmWave) has great potential in realizing high data rate thanks to the large spectral channels. It is considered as a key technology for the fifth generation wireless networks and is already used in wireless LAN (e.g., IEEE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Vutha Va , Junil Choi , Robert W. Heath

This article investigates beam alignment for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output system. Unlike the existing works using machine learning (ML), an alignment method with partial beams using ML (AMPBML) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Wenyan Ma , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

The next generations of vehicles will require data transmission rates in the order of terabytes per driving hour, to support advanced automotive services. This unprecedented amount of data to be exchanged goes beyond the capabilities of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Marco Giordani , Mattia Rebato , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications employ narrow-beam directional communications to compensate for the high path loss at mmWave frequencies. Compared to their omnidirectional counterparts, an additional step of aligning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jingcheng Li , Loukas Lazos , Ming Li

The performance of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications strongly relies on accurate beamforming both at base station and user terminal sides, referred to as beam alignment (BA). Existing BA algorithms provide initial yet coarse angle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Fernando Pedraza , Mari Kobayashi , Giuseppe Caire

One of the most promising approaches to overcome the drastic channel variations of millimeter wave (mmW) communications is to deploy dual-mode base stations that integrate both mmW and microwave (\muW) frequencies. Reaping the benefits of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

We consider the stochastic linear (multi-armed) contextual bandit problem with the possibility of hidden simple multi-armed bandit structure in which the rewards are independent of the contextual information. Algorithms that are designed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-07 Niladri S. Chatterji , Vidya Muthukumar , Peter L. Bartlett

The directionality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications creates a significant challenge in serving fast-moving mobile terminals on, e.g., high-speed vehicles, trains, and UAVs. This challenge is exacerbated in mmWave systems using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Jiahui Li , Yin Sun , Limin Xiao , Shidong Zhou , C. Emre Koksal

Millimeter Waves (mmWave) systems have the potential of enabling multi-gigabit-per-second communications in future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). Unfortunately, because of the increased vehicular mobility, they require frequent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ioannis Mavromatis , Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki , Andrew Nix

We consider the problem of spatial signal design for multipath-assisted mmWave positioning under limited prior knowledge on the user's location and clock bias. We propose an optimal robust design and, based on the low-dimensional precoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Musa Furkan Keskin , Fan Jiang , Florent Munier , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

Beam alignment - the process of finding an optimal directional beam pair - is a challenging procedure crucial to millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. We propose a novel beam alignment method that learns a site-specific probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Yuqiang Heng , Jianhua Mo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The millimeter wave (mmWave) communication uses directional antennas. Hence, achieving fine alignment of transmit and receive beams at the initial access phase is quite challenging and time-consuming. In this paper, we provide a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 A. Indika Perera , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in millimetre wave (MMW) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the sparse nature of the MMW channel, we present an efficient estimation algorithm based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Matthew Kokshoorn , Peng Wang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Underwater Acoustic (UWA) networks are vital for remote sensing and ocean exploration but face inherent challenges such as limited bandwidth, long propagation delays, and highly dynamic channels. These constraints hinder real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Fabio Busacca , Andrea Panebianco , Yin Sun

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band provides a large spectrum to meet the high-demand capacity by the 5th generation (5G) wireless networks. However, to fully exploit the available spectrum, obstacles such as high path loss, channel sparsity, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Roohollah Amiri , Hani Mehrpouyan

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an attractive candidate for high-speed mobile communications in the future. However, due to the propagation characteristics of mmWave, beam and and and and alignment becomes a key challenge for serving users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yu Liu , Jiahui Li , Yin Sun , Shidong Zhou
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