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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

We consider a heterogeneous cellular network wherein multiple small cell millimeter wave (mmW) base stations (BSs) coexist with legacy sub-6GHz macro BSs. In the mmW band, small cells use multiple narrow beams to ensure sufficient coverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Deepa Jagyasi , Marceau Coupechoux

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude increases in capacity for next-generation cellular wireless systems. However, links in mmWave networks are highly susceptible to blocking and may suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Marco Giordani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

Beamforming structures with fixed beam codebooks provide economical solutions for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications due to the low hardware cost. However, the training overhead to search for the optimal beamforming configuration is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Ruichen Deng , Sheng Chen , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Wei Zhang

Communication in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has recently been proposed to enable giga-bit-per-second data rates for next generation wireless systems. Physical layer security techniques have emerged as a simple and yet effective way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Rohith Talwar , Nancy Amala , George Medina , Akshadeep Singh Jida , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

Future dense small-cell networks are one key 5G candidates to offer outdoor high access data rates, especially in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. At those frequencies, the free space propagation loss and shadowing (from buildings,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Yoann Corre , Romain Charbonnier , Mohammed Zahid Aslam , Yves Lostanlen

Beam management is central in the operation of beamformed wireless cellular systems such as 5G New Radio (NR) networks. Focusing the energy radiated to mobile terminals (MTs) by increasing the number of beams per cell increases signal power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sanket S. Kalamkar , François Baccelli , Fuad M. Abinader , Andrea S. Marcano Fani , Luis G. Uzeda Garcia

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large array gains is a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective communication in mmWaves usually depends on the knowledge of the channel. We refer to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Fluid antenna enables position reconfigurability that gives transceiver access to a high-resolution spatial signal and the ability to avoid interference through the ups and downs of fading channels. Previous studies investigated this fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Gan Zheng , Hyundong Shin

Millimeter wave (mmWave) localization algorithms exploit the quasi-optical propagation of mmWave signals, which yields sparse angular spectra at the receiver. Geometric approaches to angle-based localization typically require to know the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Anish Shastri , Joan Palacios , Paolo Casari

Millimeter Wave (mm-w), especially the 60 GHz band, has been receiving much attention as a key enabler for the 5G cellular networks. Beamforming (BF) is tremendously used with mm-w transmissions to enhance the link quality and overcome the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed , Kei Sakaguchi , Seiichi Sampei

Enabling highly-mobile millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) wireless communication applications requires overcoming the critical challenges associated with the large antenna arrays deployed at these systems. In particular, adjusting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Gouranga Charan , Tawfik Osman , Andrew Hredzak , Ngwe Thawdar , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper presents DeepIA, a deep learning solution for faster and more accurate initial access (IA) in 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) networks when compared to conventional IA. By utilizing a subset of beams in the IA process, DeepIA removes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Tarun S. Cousik , Vijay K. Shah , Jeffrey H. Reed , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are capable of significantly reducing the network's delay and enhancing its capacity. In this paper we investigate a mmWave and device-to-device (D2D) assisted MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Yanzhen Liu , Yunlong Cai , An Liu , Minjian Zhao , Lajos Hanzo

Wireless networks with directional antennas, like millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, have enhanced security. For a large-scale mmWave ad hoc network in which eavesdroppers are randomly located, however, eavesdroppers can still intercept the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Yongxu Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert W. Heath

Fifth generation wireless systems are expected to employ multiple antenna communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies using small cells within heterogeneous cellular networks. The high path loss of mmWave as well as physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Jiho Song , Junil Choi , Stephen G. Larew , David J. Love , Timothy A. Thomas , Amitava Ghosh

Management of narrow directional beams is critical for mm-wave communication systems. Translational or rotational motion of the user can cause misalignment of transmit and receive beams with the base station losing track of the mobile.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Santosh Ganji , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Francisco A. Espinal , P. R. Kumar

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth available in these frequency bands. To correctly assess the performance of such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Michele Polese , Tanguy Ropitault , Camillo Gentile , Neeraj Varshney , Anuraag Bodi , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication enables high data rates through large bandwidths and highly directional beamforming, but its sensitivity to blockage and mobility makes reliable beam alignment a central challenge. Limited-probing beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Amirhossein Azarbahram , Onel L. A. López

Beam alignment is required in millimeter wave communication to ensure high data rate transmission. However, with narrow beamwidth in massive MIMO, beam alignment could be computationally intensive due to the large number of beam pairs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Orikumhi Igbafe , Jeongwan Kang , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim