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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication, which operates at high frequencies, has gained extensive research interest due to its significantly wide spectrum and short wavelengths. However, mmWave communication suffers from the notable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuwen Cao , Xiaowen Wu , Jiguang He , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Tony Q. S. Quek

Mobility may degrade the performance of next-generation vehicular networks operating at the millimeter-wave spectrum: frequent loss of alignment and blockages require repeated beam training and handover, thus incurring huge overhead. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Muddassar Hussain , Maria Scalabrin , Michele Rossi , Nicolò Michelusi

Mobility may degrade the performance of next-generation vehicular networks operating at the millimeter-wave spectrum: frequent mis-alignment and blockages require repeated beam training and handover, and incur enormous overhead.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Muddassar Hussain , Maria Scalabrin , Michele Rossi , Nicolo Michelusi

With the overcrowded sub-6 GHz bands, millimeter wave (mmWave) bands offer a promising alternative for the next generation wireless standard, i.e., 5G. However, the susceptibility of mmWave signals to severe pathloss and shadowing requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-13 Solmaz Niknam , Balasubramaniam Natarajan , Reza Barazideh

Multicast/broadcast services (MBS) are able to provide video services for many users simultaneously. Fixed amount of bandwidth allocation for all of the MBS videos is not effective in terms of bandwidth utilization, overall forced call…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Tuan Nguyena , Young-Il Kimb , Won Ryub , Yeong Min Jang

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

Millimeter Wave (MmWave) communication is one of the key technology of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems to achieve the expected 1000x data rate. With large bandwidth at mmWave band, the link capacity between users and base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Mingjie Feng , Shiwen Mao

Due to massive available spectrum in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands, cellular systems in these frequencies may provides orders of magnitude greater capacity than networks in conventional lower frequency bands. However, due to high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Menglei Zhang , Marco Mezzavilla , Jing Zhu , Sundeep Rangan , Shivendra Panwar

In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, it is challenging to ensure the reliable connectivity of communications due to its sensitivity to the presence of blockages. In order to improve the robustness of the mmWave system under the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo

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

Overcoming the link blockage challenges is essential for enhancing the reliability and latency of millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) communication networks. Previous approaches relied mainly on either (i)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shunyao Wu , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band, which is a prime candidate for 5G cellular networks, seems attractive for wireless energy harvesting. This is because it will feature large antenna arrays as well as extremely dense base station (BS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Talha Ahmed Khan , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is anticipated to provide significant throughout gains in urban scenarios. To this end, network densification is a necessity to meet the high traffic volume generated by smart phones, tablets, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-17 Roohollah Amiri , Hani Mehrpouyan

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are sensitive to blockage over radio propagation paths. The emerging paradigm of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has the potential to overcome this issue by its ability to arbitrarily reflect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Yan Yang , Shuping Dang , Miaowen Wen , Bo Ai , Rose Qingyang Hu

This study examines analog beamforming designs utilizing multi-panel arrays for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems under stochastic path blockages where each panel is an integrated circuit that includes power amplifiers, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Kanta Terui , Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi

Millimetre wave (mm-wave) communication is considered as one of the most important enablers for the fifth generation communication (5G) system to support data rate of Gbps and above. In some scenarios, it is crucial to maintain a line of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Yinan Qi , Mythri Hunukumbure , Yue Wang

A significant portion of the 5th generation of wireless networks will operate in the mm-wave bands. One of the several challenges associated with mm-wave propagation is to overcome shadowing due to signal blockage caused by environmental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Swapnil Mhaske , Predrag Spasojevic , Ahsan Aziz

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

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz communication systems rely mainly on line-of-sight (LOS) links between the transmitters and receivers. The sensitivity of these high-frequency LOS links to blockages, however, challenges the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Good quality video services always require higher bandwidth. Hence, to provide the video services e.g., multicast/broadcast services (MBS) and unicast services along with the existing voice, internet, and other background traffic services…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Tuan Nguyen , Young-Il Kim , Won Ryu , Yeong Min Jang