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This paper provides the first real-world evaluation of using visual (RGB camera) data and machine learning for proactively predicting millimeter wave (mmWave) dynamic link blockages before they happen. Proactively predicting line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems will enable gigabit-per-second data rates thanks to the large bandwidth available at mmWave frequencies. To realize sufficient link margin, mmWave systems will employ directional beamforming with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Omar El Ayach , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

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

Line-of-sight link blockages represent a key challenge for the reliability and latency of millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication networks. To address this challenge, this paper leverages mmWave and LiDAR sensory data to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Shunyao Wu , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Ahmed Alkhateeb

6G -- sixth generation -- is the latest cellular technology currently under development for wireless communication systems. In recent years, machine learning algorithms have been applied widely in various fields, such as healthcare,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Evren Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Umit Cali , Devrim Unal

Traditional machine learning techniques have achieved great success in improving data-rate performance and reducing latency in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. However, these methods still face two key challenges: (i) their reliance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuwen Cao , Wenqin Lu , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Setareh Maghsudi , Xue-Qin Jiang , Charalampos C. Tsimenidis

Line-of-sight link blockages represent a key challenge for the reliability and latency of millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication networks. This paper proposes to leverage LiDAR sensory data to provide awareness about the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Shunyao Wu , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The susceptibility of millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals to physical blockage and abrupt signal strength variations presents a challenge to reliable 5G communication. This work proposes and examines the feasibility of utilizing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Ziad Ali , Alexandra Duel-Hallen , Hans Hallen

Fast and precise beam alignment is crucial to support high-quality data transmission in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning based hierarchical beam alignment method that learns two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Junyi Yang , Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao

Establishing and maintaining millimeter-wave (mmWave) links is challenging due to the changing environment and the high sensibility of mmWave signal to user mobility and channel conditions. MmWave link configuration problems often involve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Yi Zhang , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies have the potential to achieve very high data rates, but suffer from intermittent connectivity. In this paper, we provision an architecture to integrate sub-6 GHz and mmWave technologies, where we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Guidan Yao , Morteza Hashemi , Ness B. Shroff

As millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems adopt larger antenna arrays, near-field propagation becomes increasingly prominent, especially for users close to the transmitter. Traditional far-field beam training methods become inadequate, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weicao Deng , Binpu Shi , Min Li , Osvaldo Simeone

In this paper, we propose BeamLLM, a vision-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) beam prediction framework leveraging large language models (LLMs) to address the challenges of high training overhead and latency in mmWave communication systems. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Can Zheng , Jiguang He , Guofa Cai , Zitong Yu , Chung G. Kang

In order to cope with the severe path loss, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems exploit highly directional communication. As a consequence, even a slight beam misalignment between two communicating devices (for example, due to mobility) can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Joan Palacios , Danilo De Donno , Joerg Widmer

Millimeter wave (mmWave) has great potential in realizing high data rate thanks to the large spectral channels. It is considered as a key technology for the fifth generation wireless networks and is already used in wireless LAN (e.g., IEEE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Vutha Va , Junil Choi , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based beam tracking method for millimeter-wave (mmWave)communications. Beam tracking is employed for transmitting the known symbols using the sounding beams and tracking time-varying channels to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Sun Hong Lim , Sunwoo Kim , Byonghyo Shim , Jun Won Choi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems typically deploy large antenna arrays to guarantee sufficient receive signal power. The beam training overhead associated with these arrays, however, make it hard for these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Gouranga Charan , Andrew Hredzak , Christian Stoddard , Benjamin Berrey , Madhav Seth , Hector Nunez , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper presents the first large-scale real-world evaluation for using LiDAR data to guide the mmWave beam prediction task. A machine learning (ML) model that leverages the LiDAR sensory data to predict the current and future beams was…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Shuaifeng Jiang , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

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

5G millimeter wave (mmWave) technology is envisioned to be an integral part of next-generation vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks and autonomous vehicles due to its broad bandwidth, wide field of view sensing, and precise localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-06 Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Ismail Guvenc