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Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) are transforming reconfigurable antenna technology by enabling energy-efficient, cost-effective beamforming through programmable meta-elements, eliminating the need for traditional phase shifters and…

Millimeter-wave MIMO systems have gained increasing traction towards the goal of meeting the high data-rate requirements in next-generation wireless systems. The focus of this work is on low-complexity beamforming approaches for initial UE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Vasanthan Raghavan , Juergen Cezanne , Sundar Subramanian , Ashwin Sampath , Ozge Koymen

The mmWave communication system is operating at a regime with high number of antennas and very limited number of RF analog chains. Large number of antennas are used to extend the communication range for recovering the high path loss while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Y. Ming Tsang , Ada S. Y. Poon , Sateesh Addepalli

We propose a hybrid architecture that integrates RF (i.e., sub-6 GHz) and millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies for 5G cellular systems. In particular, communications in the mmWave band faces significant challenges due to variable channels,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Morteza Hashemi , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

By exploiting the degree of freedom on the altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication can provide ubiquitous communication for future wireless networks. In the case of concurrent transmission of multiple UAVs, the directional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weihao Wang , Zesong Fei , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Multibeam technology enables the use of two or more subbeams for joint communication and radio sensing, to meet different requirements of beamwidth and pointing directions. Generating and optimizing multibeam subject to the requirements is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Yuyue Luo , J. Andrew Zhang , Xiaojing Huang , Wei Ni , Jin Pan

We introduce fast millimeter-wave base station (BS) and its antenna sector selection for user equipment based on its location. Using a conditional random field inference model with specially designed parameters, which are robust to change…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sai Qian Zhang , H. T. Kung , Youngjune Gwon

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key technology for enabling a wide range of applications in future wireless systems. However, the sensing performance is often degraded by model mismatches caused by geometric errors (e.g.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Hui Chen , Mengting Li , Alireza Pourafzal , Huiping Huang , Yu Ge , Sigurd Sandor Petersen , Ming Shen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Henk Wymeersch

The recent concept of beamspace multiple input multiple output (MIMO) can significantly reduce the number of required radio-frequency (RF) chains in millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO systems without obvious performance loss. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Bichai Wang , Linglong Dai , Zhaocheng Wang , Ning Ge , Shidong Zhou

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

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, the impact of imperfect beam alignment (IBA) on millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless power transfer (WPT) is investigated. We consider a mmWave WPT network, where the location of the energy transmitters follows a Poisson point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Man Wang , Chao Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Suhua Tang

The vast amount of spectrum available for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication systems will support accurate real-time positioning concurrent with communication signaling. This paper demonstrates that accurate estimates of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport

Neighbor discovery is a fundamental task for wireless networks deployment. It is essential for setup and maintenance of networks and is typically a precondition for further communication. In this work we focus on passive discovery of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Niels Karowski , Konstantin Miller

For millimeter wave (mmWave) or Terahertz (THz) communications, by leveraging the high spatial resolution offered by large antenna arrays and the multi-path sparsity of mmWave/THz channels, a novel inter-symbol interference (ISI) mitigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jieni Zhang , Yong Zeng , Xiangbin Yu , Shi Jin , Jinhong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Rui Zhang

This paper considers joint beamformer design towards maximizing the mutual information in a coherent wireless sensor network with noisy observation and multiple antennae. Leveraging the weighted minimum mean square error and block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xuanxuan Lu

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

We present a tracking algorithm to maintain the communication link between a base station (BS) and a mobile station (MS) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, where antenna arrays are used for beamforming in both the BS and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Kang Gao , Mingming Cai , Ding Nie , Bertrand Hochwald , J. Nicholas Laneman , Huang Huang , Kunpeng Liu

In this paper, we develop an algorithm for joint handover and beam tracking in millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. The aim is to provide a reliable connection in terms of the achieved throughput along the trajectory of the mobile user while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Jens Zander , Marina Petrova

Future vehicular communication networks call for new solutions to support their capacity demands, by leveraging the potential of the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) spectrum. Mobility, in particular, poses severe challenges in their design, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Maria Scalabrin , Nicolò Michelusi , Michele Rossi