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Millimeter wave (mmWave) is a practical solution to provide high data rate for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. This enables the future autonomous vehicles to exchange big data with the base stations (BSs) such as the velocity,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Elyes Balti

Ad hoc networks provide an on-demand, infrastructure-free means to communicate between soldiers in war zones, aid workers in disaster areas, or consumers in device-to-device (D2D) applications. Unfortunately, ad hoc networks are limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Andrew Thornburg , Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath

The automotive industry is rapidly evolving towards connected and autonomous vehicles, whose ever more stringent data traffic requirements might exceed the capacity of traditional technologies for vehicular networks. In this scenario,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Davide Peron , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

The presence of signal outage, due to shadowing and blockage, is expected to be the main bottleneck in millimeter wave (mmWave) networks. Moreover, with the anticipated vision that mmWave networks would have a dense deployment of base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Diana Maamari , Natasha Devroye , Daniela Tuninetti

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication technology offers a potential and promising solution to support 5G and B5G wireless networks in dynamic scenarios and applications. However, mobility introduces many challenges as well as opportunities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jing Li , Yong Niu , Hao Wu , Bo Ai , Sheng Chen , Zhiyong Feng , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang

Accurate and ubiquitous localization is crucial for a variety of applications such as logistics, navigation, intelligent transport, monitoring, control, and also for the benefit of communications. Exploiting millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Mohammad A. Nazari , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Pontus Johannisson , Henk Wymeersch

Given the overcrowding in the 300 MHz-3 GHz spectrum, millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum is a promising candidate for the future generations of wireless networks. With the unique propagation characteristics at mmWave frequencies, one of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Solmaz Niknam , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

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

To exploit richer spectrum resources for even better service quality, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication has been considered for high-speed railway (HSR) communication systems. In this paper, we focus on scheduling as many flows as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yibing Wang , Yong Niu , Hao Wu , Shiwen Mao , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies will support the high bandwidth and data rate requirements of V2X services demanded by connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). MmWave V2X technologies will leverage directional antennas that challenge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Baldomero Coll-Perales , Javier Gozalvez , Esteban Egea-Lopez

A great increase in wireless access rates might be attainable by using the large amount of spectrum available in the millimeter wave (mmWave, 30 - 300 GHz) band. However, due to higher propagation losses inherent in these frequencies, to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Jinfeng Du , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela

In this work, we present a framework analysis of millimeter waves (mmWaves) vehicular communications systems. Communications between vehicles take place through a cooperative relay which acts as an intermediary base station (BS). The relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Elyes Balti , Brian K. Johnson

This paper investigates the problem of increasing the security at the physical layer of a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) network equipped with several Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs). In this network, multiple IRSs help the Base Station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anahid Rafieifar , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

The performance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) communication systems is significantly impaired by sensitivity to sudden blockages. In this work, we employ machine learning (ML) and our physics-based simulation tool…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Roghieh Mahdavihaji , Alexandra Duel-Hallen , Hans Hallen

Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications are revolutionizing the connectivity of transportation systems supporting safe and efficient road mobility. To meet the growing bandwidth eagerness of V2X services, millimeter-wave (e.g., 5G new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Kai Dong , Marouan Mizmizi , Dario Tagliaferri , Umberto Spagnolini

Directional transmission patterns (a.k.a. narrow beams) are the key to wireless communications in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands which suffer from high path loss and severe shadowing. In addition, the propagation channel in mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Abbas Khalili , Shahram Shahsavari , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Elza Erkip

High reliability and availability of communication services is a key requirement that needs to be ensured by service providers. Since the direct line-of-sight (LOS) beam is prone to blockage in indoor optical wireless communication systems,…

The millimetre-wave spectrum provisions enormous enhancement to the achievable data rate of 5G networks. However, human blockages affecting the millimetre-wave signal can severely degrade the performance if proper resource allocation is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Fadhil Firyaguna , Andrea Bonfante , Jacek Kibiłda , Nicola Marchetti

As driving becomes more automated, vehicles are being equipped with more sensors generating even higher data rates. Radars (RAdio Detection and Ranging) are used for object detection, visual cameras as virtual mirrors, and LIDARs (LIght…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Junil Choi , Vutha Va , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Robert Daniels , Chandra R. Bhat , Robert W. Heath

We propose a novel analytical framework for evaluating the coverage performance of a millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular network where idle user equipments (UEs) act as relays. In this network, the base station (BS) adopts either the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Simin Xu , Nan Yang , Biao He , Hamid Jafarkhani