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With the severe spectrum shortage in conventional cellular bands, millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz have been attracting growing attention as a possible candidate for next-generation micro- and picocellular wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Mustafa Riza Akdeniz , Yuanpeng Liu , Sundeep Rangan , Elza Erkip

Millimeter wave offers a sensible solution to the capacity crunch faced by 5G wireless communications. This paper comprehensively studies physical layer security in a multi-input single-output (MISO) millimeter wave system where multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ying Ju , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Qinye Yin , Moon Ho Lee

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a promising technology to facilitate high-rate communications and super-resolution sensing, particularly operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band. However, the vulnerability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xu Gan , Chongwen Huang , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Faouzi Bader , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , Merouane Debbah

Millimeter wave (mmW) wireless networks are capable to support multi-gigabit data rates, by using directional communications with narrow beams. However, existing mmW communications standards are hindered by two problems: deafness and single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Lazaros Gkatzikis , Carlo Fischione

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is envisioned as a cornerstone to fulfill the data rate requirements for fifth generation (5G) cellular networks. In mmWave communication, beamforming is considered as a key technology to combat the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Waqas Bin Abbas , Michele Zorzi

This paper introduces a novel method for predicting blockages in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems towards enabling reliable connectivity. It employs a self-supervised learning approach to label radio frequency (RF) data with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Rafaela Scaciota , Malith Gallage , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis

At millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, signals are prone to blocking by objects in the environment, which causes paths to go from line-of-sight (LOS) to non-LOS (NLOS). We consider macrodiversity as a strategy to improve the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology holds the potential to revolutionize head-mounted displays (HMDs) by enabling high-speed wireless communication with nearby processing nodes, where complex video rendering can take place. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Alexander Marinek , Xuesong Cai , Lieven De Strycker , Fredrik Tufvesson , Liesbet Van der Perre

Communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is expected to become a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective mmWave communications require fast and reliable methods for beamforming at both the User Equipment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

This paper proposes a cellular network exploiting millimeter-wave (mmWave) and ultra-densified base stations (BSs) to achieve the far-reaching 5G aim in downlink average rate. The mmWave overlaid network however incurs a pitfall that its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim , Jens Zander

Due to its potential to support high data rates at low latency with reasonable interference isolation, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications has emerged as a promising solution for wireless personal-area networks (WPAN) and an enabler for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communications rely on highly directional beams to combat severe propagation loss. In this paper, an adaptive beam search algorithm based on spatial scanning, called Iterative Deactivation and Beam Shifting (IDBS),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Chunshan Liu , Min Li , Lou Zhao , Philip Whiting , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings

Unlocking the full potential of millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz wireless communication networks hinges on realizing unprecedented low-latency and high-reliability requirements. The challenge in meeting those requirements lies partly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Gouranga Charan , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is expected to play an important role in next generation cellular networks, aiming to cope with the bandwidth shortage affecting conventional wireless carriers. Using side-information has been proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret

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 millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, we investigate uplink user scheduling when a basestation employs low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with a large number of antennas. To reduce power consumption in the receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Jinseok Choi , Brian L. Evans

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users, which requires multi-user precoding at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath , Geert Leus

This paper focuses on multiuser MIMO channel estimation and data transmission at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. The proposed approach relies on the time-division-duplex (TDD) protocol and is based on two distinct phases. First of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea

We study the secrecy rate maximization problem in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, consisting of a base station (BS), multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)), multiple users, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anahid Rafieifar , Hosein Ahmadinejad , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Jiguang He

The use of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum for commercial wireless communications is expected to offer data rates in the order of Gigabits-per-second, thus able to support future applications such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Anastasios Dimas , Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Athina P. Petropulu