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Base station (BS) placement in mobile networks is critical to the efficient use of resources in any communication system and one of the main factors that determines the quality of communication. Although there is ample literature on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Fatih Erden , Chethan K. Anjinappa , Ender Ozturk , Ismail Guvenc

In millimeter wave cellular communication, fast and reliable beam alignment via beam training is crucial to harvest sufficient beamforming gain for the subsequent data transmission. In this paper, we establish fundamental limits in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Chunshan Liu , Min Li , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

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 future 6G communication systems, large-scale antenna arrays promise enhanced signal strength and spatial resolution, but they also increase the complexity of beam training. Moreover, as antenna counts grow and carrier wavelengths shrink,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ran Li , Ziyi Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In this paper, we study efficient multi-beam training design for near-field communications to reduce the beam training overhead of conventional single-beam training methods. In particular, the array-division based multi-beam training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Zixuan Huang , Shuo Shi , Yi Gong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kaibin Huang

This paper presents a robust beam alignment technique for millimeter-wave communications in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments. The core strategy of our technique is to repeatedly transmit the most probable beam candidates to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jihun Park , Yongjeong Oh , Jaewon Yun , Seonjung Kim , Yo-Seb Jeon

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) require ultra-low end-to-end delays and multi-gigabit-per-second data transmission. Millimetre Waves (mmWaves) communications can fulfil these requirements. However, the increased mobility of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ioannis Mavromatis , Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki , Andrew Nix

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. Being pre-defined, however, these codebooks are commonly not optimized for specific environments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Visual information, captured for example by cameras, can effectively reflect the sizes and locations of the environmental scattering objects, and thereby can be used to infer communications parameters like propagation directions, receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Weihua Xu , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Efficient millimeter wave (mmWave) beam selection in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication is a crucial yet challenging task due to the narrow mmWave beamwidth and high user mobility. To reduce the search overhead of iterative beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Matteo Zecchin , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

Designing a cognitive radar system capable of adapting its parameters is challenging, particularly when tasked with tracking a ballistic missile throughout its entire flight. In this work, we focus on proposing adaptive algorithms that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Thulasi Tholeti , Avinash Rangarajan , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper studies the joint beamwidth and transmit power optimization problem in millimeter wave communication systems. A deep reinforcement learning based approach is proposed. Specifically, a customized deep Q network is trained offline,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Xiaoming Chen , Hai Lin , Zhaoyang Zhang

Communication at terahertz (THz) frequency bands is a promising solution for achieving extremely high data rates in next-generation wireless networks. While the THz communication is conventionally envisioned for short-range wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Arian Ahmadi , Omid Semiari

For extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays), the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) codebook, conventionally used in the far-field, has recently been employed for near-field beam training. However, most existing methods rely on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Jiapeng Li , Changsheng You , Guoliang Cheng , Haobin Sun , Chao Zhou , Linglong Dai

Millimeter-wave will be a key technology in next-generation wireless networks thanks to abundant bandwidth availability. However, the use of large antenna arrays with beamforming demands precise beam-alignment between transmitter and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Muddassar Hussain , Nicolo Michelusi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are the emerging vital components of millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems. Accurate beam alignment is essential for efficient beam-based mmWave communications of UAVs with base stations (BSs).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Susarla Praneeth , Gouda Bikshapathi , Deng Yansha , Juntti Markku , Silven Olli , Tolli Antti

We study the initial beam acquisition problem in millimeter wave (mm-wave) networks from the perspective of best arm identification in multi-armed bandits (MABs). For the stationary environment, we propose a novel algorithm called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Gourab Ghatak

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

Envisioned for fifth generation (5G) systems, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are under very active research worldwide. Although pencil beams with accurate beamtracking may boost the throughput of mmWave systems, this poses great…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Rafail Ismayilov , Megumi Kaneko , Takefumi Hiraguri , Kentaro Nishimori

In this paper, we investigate the millimeter-wave (mmWave) near-field beam training problem to find the correct beam direction. In order to address the high complexity and low identification accuracy of existing beam training techniques, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yuan Xu , Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Jun Yang , Jiguang He , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah