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The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the availability of huge bandwidths to provide unprecedented data rates to next-generation cellular mobile terminals. However, mmWave links are highly susceptible to rapid channel variations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Marco Giordani , Michele Polese , Arnab Roy , Douglas Castor , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter-wave multi-input multi-output (mm-Wave MIMO) systems are one of the candidate schemes for 5G wireless standardization efforts. In this context, the main contributions of this article are three-fold. 1) We describe parallel sets…

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems use directional beams to support high-rate data communications. Small misalignment between the transmit and receive beams (e.g., due to the mobility) can result in significant drop of the received signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Dalin Zhu , Junil Choi , Qian Cheng , Weimin Xiao , Robert W. Heath

The use of the millimeter (mm) wave spectrum for next generation (5G) mobile communication has gained significant attention recently. The small carrier wavelengths at mmwave frequencies enable synthesis of compact antenna arrays, providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Jaspreet Singh , Sudhir Ramakrishna

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) propagation is known to be severely affected by the blockage of the line-of-sight (LoS) path. In contrast to microwave systems, at shorter mmWave wavelengths such blockage can be caused by human bodies, where their…

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

In this paper, we consider millimeter Wave (mmWave) technology to provide reliable wireless network service within factories where links may experience rapid and temporary fluctuations of the received signal power due to dynamic blockers,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Andrea Bonfante , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Irene Macaluso , Nicola Marchetti

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

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 2017-12-21 Yahia Shabara , C. Emre Koksal , Eylem Ekici

Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To compensate for the high pathloss of mmWave signals, large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ke Ma , Zhaocheng Wang , Wenqiang Tian , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Simultaneous use of high-end wearable wireless devices like smart glasses is challenging in a dense indoor environment due to the high nature of interference. In this scenario, the millimeter wave (mmWave) band offers promising potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath

Propagation channel characteristics are substantially different in sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. A typical mmWave link experiences more than an order-of-magnitude larger path loss and is more susceptible to blockages than a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Ozgur Ozdemir , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc , Taha Yekan , Tom Zarian

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

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band will provide multi-gigabits-per-second connectivity in the radio access of future wireless systems. The high propagation loss in this portion of the spectrum calls for the deployment of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) holds promise as a carrier frequency for fifth generation cellular networks. Because mmWave signals are sensitive to blockage, prior models for cellular networks operated in the ultra high frequency (UHF) band do…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth available in these frequency bands. To correctly assess the performance of such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Michele Polese , Tanguy Ropitault , Camillo Gentile , Neeraj Varshney , Anuraag Bodi , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz are a new frontier for cellular communication that offers the promise of orders of magnitude greater bandwidths combined with further gains via beamforming and spatial multiplexing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Sundeep Rangan , Theodore S. Rappaport , Elza Erkip

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ directional beamforming with large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. Acquiring channel knowledge to design these beamformers, however, is challenging due to the large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

In millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, narrow beam operations overcome severe channel attenuations, reduce multiuser interference, and thus introduce the new concept of noise-limited mmWave wireless networks. The regime of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione