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Distributed transmit beamforming is a technique that adjusts the signals from cooperating radios to combine coherently at a destination radio. To achieve coherent combining, the radios can exchange preambles with the destination for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric

Beamforming is a signal processing technique where an array of antenna elements can be steered to transmit and receive radio signals in a specific direction. The usage of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies and multiple input multiple…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Snehal Bhayani , Praneeth Susarla , S. S. Krishna Chaitanya Bulusu , Olli Silven , Markku Juntti , Janne Heikkila

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high carrier frequencies in future wireless systems gives rise to near-field communications, where the curvature of spherical wavefronts renders traditional far-field beamforming models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication represents one of the main innovations of the next generation of wireless technologies, allowing users to reach unprecedented data rates. To overcome the high path loss at mmWave frequencies, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Mattia Lecci , Tommaso Zugno , Silvia Zampato , Michele Zorzi

Beamforming techniques utilized either at the transmitter or the receiver terminals have achieved superior quality-of-service performances from both the multi-antenna wireless communications systems, communications intelligence and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 M. Yaser Yağan , Ahmet F. Coşkun , Ali E. Pusane

Beamforming is an indispensable feature for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communications in order to compensate for the severe path loss incurred due to high frequency operation. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework to evaluate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Rakesh RT , Debarati Sen , Goutam Das

Transmit beamforming is a versatile technique for signal transmission from an array of $N$ antennas to one or multiple users [1]. In wireless communications, the goal is to increase the signal power at the intended user and reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

The joint design of analog beamforming and power allocation is investigated for a single radio-frequency chain multiuser time-division multiple access system under a max-min signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) criterion. A hardware-efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Songnan Gu , Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Xingqi Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication is a key technology for future wireless networks. To combat significant path loss and exploit the abundant mm-wave spectrum, effective beamforming is crucial. Nevertheless, conventional fully digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Jun Zhang , Xianghao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief

High-frequency wideband cellular communications over mmWave and sub-THz offer the opportunity for high data rates. However, it also presents high path loss, resulting in limited coverage. High-gain beamforming from the antenna array is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Ozlem Yildiz , Ahmad AlAmmouri , Jianhua Mo , Younghan Nam , Elza Erkip , Jianzhong , Zhang

Large antenna arrays can be used to generate highly focused beams that support very high data rates and reduced energy consumption. However, optimal beam focusing requires large amount of feedback from the users in order to choose the best…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Abdoulaye Tall , Zwi Altman , Eitan Altman

This paper studies hybrid beamforming for active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave or ultrasound imaging. Hybrid beamforming can substantially lower the cost and power consumption of fully digital sensor arrays by reducing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Robin Rajamäki , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Visa Koivunen

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications is the key enabler of 5G cellular networks due to vast spectrum availability that could boost peak rate and capacity. Due to increased propagation loss in mmW band, transceivers with massive antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Han Yan , Sridhar Ramesh , Timothy Gallagher , Curtis Ling , Danijela Cabric

As an emerging wireless communication technology, movable antennas (MAs) offer the ability to adjust the spatial correlation of steering vectors, enabling more flexible beamforming compared to fixed-position antennas (FPAs). In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Shun Yang , Xin Wei , Nianbing Su , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

In this work, an detection strategy based on multiple antennas with beam sweeping is developed to detect UAV's potential transmission in wireless networks. Specifically, suspicious angle range where the UAV may present is divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jinsong Hu , Yongpeng Wu , Riqing Chen , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

We introduce a new method for robust beamforming, where the goal is to estimate a signal from array samples when there is uncertainty in the angle of arrival. Our method offers state-of-the-art performance on narrowband signals and is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Nakul Singh , Coleman DeLude , Mark A. Davenport , Justin Romberg

High speed wireless access on 60 GHz spectrum relies on high-gain directional antennas to overcome the severe signal attenuation. However, perfect alignment between transmitting and receiving antenna beams is rare in practice and overheard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Guang Yang , Jinfeng Du , Ming Xiao

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high frequencies in future generations of wireless networks will give rise to near-field communications. In this paper, we focus on the hybrid analog and digital beamforming architecture of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper proposes a hybrid quantum optimization framework for large-scale antenna-array beamforming with jointly optimized discrete phases and continuous amplitudes. The method combines quantum-inspired search with classical gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Shuai Zeng

A simple feedback control algorithm is presented for distributed beamforming in a wireless network. A network of wireless sensors that seek to cooperatively transmit a common message signal to a Base Station (BS) is considered. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 R. Mudumbai , J. Hespanha , U. Madhow , G. Barriac