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Integrated sensing and communication and millimeter wave (mmWave) have emerged as pivotal technologies for 6G networks. However, the narrow nature of mmWave beams requires precise alignments that typically necessitate large training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Ahmad A. Aziz El-Banna , Octavia A. Dobre

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of respiration pattern estimation utilizing a communication-centric cellfree massive MIMO OFDM Base Station (BS). The sensing target is typically positioned near the User Equipment (UE), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Haoqiu Xiong , Robbert Beerten , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Yang Miao , Sofie Pollin

For high-speed train (HST) millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, the use of narrow beams with small beam coverage needs frequent beam switching, while wider beams with small beam gain leads to weaker mmWave signal strength. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jingjia Huang , Chenhao Qi , Octavia A. Dobre , Geoffrey Ye Li

Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yao Chen , Rui Luo , Chen Wang , Yong-Kun Zhang , Shiqian Zhao , Chengbing Lyu , ZePeng Zheng , Hai Lei , DeJiang Zhou , Chenhui Niu , JinLin Han , George Hobbs , Di Li , Chengwei Liang , Siyi Tan , Ting Tian

The challenging propagation environment, combined with the hardware limitations of mmWave systems, gives rise to the need for accurate initial access beam alignment strategies with low latency and high achievable beamforming gain. Much of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Daniel Tandler , Marc Gauger , Ahmet Serdar Tan , Sebastian Dörner , Stephan ten Brink

Millimeter-wave communications is the most promising technology for next-generation cellular wireless systems, thanks to the large bandwidth available compared to sub-6 GHz networks. Nevertheless, communication at these frequencies requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-20 Rana A. Hassan , Nicolo Michelusi

We design iterative receiver schemes for a generic wireless communication system by treating channel estimation and information decoding as an inference problem in graphical models. We introduce a recently proposed inference framework that…

Location of Base Stations (BS) in mobile networks plays an important role in coverage and received signal strength. As Internet ofThings (IoT), autonomous vehicles and smart cities evolve, wireless net-work coverage will have an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Kritik Soman , K. S. Venkatesh

We propose a method that combines fixed point algorithms with a neural network to optimize jointly discrete and continuous variables in millimeter-wave communication systems, so that the users' rates are allocated fairly in a well-defined…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

Detecting the presence of persons and estimating their quantity in an indoor environment has grown in importance recently. For example, the information if a room is unoccupied can be used for automatically switching off the light, air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fabio Chiarani , Philipp H. Kindt , Graziano Pravadelli

In this work, the uplink channel estimation problem is considered for a millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. It is well known that pilot overhead and computation complexity in estimating the channel increases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Rakesh Mundlamuri , Rajeev Gangula , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Florian Kaltenberger , Walid Saad

The interconnectedness of all things is continuously expanding which has allowed every individual to increase their level of interaction with their surroundings. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are used in a plethora of context-aware…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Andrew Mackey , Petros Spachos , Liang Song , Konstantinos Plataniotis

Millimeter-wave communications rely on narrow-beam transmissions to cope with the strong signal attenuation at these frequencies, thus demanding precise alignment between transmitter and receiver. However, the beam-alignment procedure may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Muddassar Hussain , Nicolo Michelusi

In general, the zero-forcing (ZF) precoding suffers from a severe receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) degradation in the high interference regime. However, recent evidences from realistic measurements demonstrated that millimeter wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Naveed Iqbal , Waqas Ahmad , Christian Schneider , Reiner S. Thomä

Context. Filamentary structures appear to be ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. Being able to detect and characterize them is the first step toward understanding their origin, their evolution, and their role in the Galactic cycle of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 J. -S. Carrière , L. Montier , K. Ferrière , I. Ristorcelli

A novel location-aware beamforming scheme for millimeter wave communication is proposed for line of sight (LOS) and low mobility scenarios, in which computer vision is introduced to derive the required position or spatial angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Tianqi Xiang , Yaxin Wang , Huiwen Li , Boren Guo , Xin Zhang

We propose a new antenna selection scheme for a massive MIMO system with a single user terminal and a base station with a large number of antennas. We consider a practical scenario where there is a realistic correlation among the antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-09 De Mi , Mehrdad Dianati , Sami Muhaidat , Yan Chen

We present an approach for improving spatial frequency sampling in active incoherent millimeter-wave (AIM) imaging systems using frequency diversity. AIM imaging relies on active transmission of spatio-temporally incoherent signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

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

Accurate beam alignment is essential for beam-based millimeter wave communications. Conventional beam sweeping solutions often have large overhead, which is unacceptable for mobile applications like vehicle-to-everything. Learning-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Vutha Va , Takayuki Shimizu , Gaurav Bansal , Robert W. Heath