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Communication in Millimeter wave (mmWave) band relies on narrow beams due to directionality, high path loss, and shadowing. One can use beam alignment (BA) techniques to find and adjust the direction of these narrow beams. In this paper, BA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Abbas Khalili , Shahram Shahsavari , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Elza Erkip

The millimeter wave (mmWave) bands have recently attracted considerable interest for next-generation cellular systems due to the massive available bandwidths at these frequencies. However, a key challenge in designing mmWave cellular…

Beamforming is one of the key techniques in millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications. Designing appropriate beamforming not only improves the quality and strength of the received signal, but also can help…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Beamforming techniques have been widely used in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to mitigate the path loss of mmWave radio links as the narrow straight beams by directionally concentrating the signal energy. However, traditional mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Kan Zheng , Haojun Yang , Ziqiang Ying , Pengshuo Wang , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose a sequential hybrid beamforming design for multi-link transmission over mmwave frequency bands. As a starting point, a baseline data communication link is established via traditional analog beamforming at both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yaning Zou , Mario Castañeda , Tommy Svensson , Gerhard Fettweis

Hybrid beamforming is a promising technology to improve the energy efficiency of massive MIMO systems. In particular, subarray hybrid beamforming can further decrease power consumption by reducing the number of phase-shifters. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hamed Hojatian , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

Obtaining accurate channel state information (CSI) is crucial and challenging for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. With the increasing antenna scale and user mobility, traditional channel estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zhuoran Xiao

Beamforming-capable antenna arrays overcome the high free-space path loss at higher carrier frequencies. However, the beams must be properly aligned to ensure that the highest power is radiated towards (and received by) the user equipment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 George Yammine , Georgios Kontes , Norbert Franke , Axel Plinge , Christopher Mutschler

Multiple transmitting antennas can considerably increase the downlink spectral efficiency by beamforming to multiple users at the same time. However, multiuser beamforming requires channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Xu Du , John Tadrous , Ashutosh Sabharwal

A dual-robust design of beamforming is investigated in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system.Existing research on robust ISAC waveform design, while proposing solutions to imperfect channel state information (CSI), generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Xinyi Chen , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuan

To fully unlock the benefits of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, downlink channel state information (CSI) is required at the base station (BS). In frequency division duplex (FDD) systems, the CSI is acquired through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Matteo Nerini , Valentina Rizzello , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick , Bruno Clerckx

Instantaneous or statistical channel state information (CSI) is needed for most detection schemes developed in the molecular communication (MC) literature. Since the MC channel changes, e.g., due to variations in the velocity of flow, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and millimeter wave (mmWave) are two key enabling technologies for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks and beyond. In this paper, we consider mmWave NOMA systems with max-min fairness constraints.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Jinle Zhu , Qiang Li , Hongyang Chen , H. Vincent Poor

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the radio propagation by passively changing the directions of impinging electromagnetic waves. The optimal control of the RIS requires perfect channel state information (CSI) of all the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Jiguang He , Markus Leinonen , Henk Wymeersch , Markku Juntti

This paper proposes a deep learning-based beamforming design framework that directly maps a target beam pattern to optimal beamforming vectors across multiple antenna array architectures, including digital, analog, and hybrid beamforming.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hongpu Zhang , Shu Sun , Hangsong Yan , Jianhua Mo

Channel estimation in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-aided systems is crucial for optimal configuration of the RIS and various downstream tasks such as user localization. In RIS-aided systems, channel estimation involves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Firas Fredj , Amal Feriani , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. We develop a novel simultaneous-estimation with iterative fountain training (SWIFT) framework, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) appear as a promising solution to combat wireless channel fading and interferences. However, the elements of the RIS need to be properly oriented to boost the data transmission rate. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Thomas Chêne , Oumaïma Bounhar , Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman , Oussama Damen

Beamforming is a fundamental technology that not only enhances communication efficiency but also lays the foundation for massive multiple-input multiple-output~(MIMO) systems. However, its reliance on accurate channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yuanbo Liu , Bingcheng Zhu , Shuojin Huang , Han Zhang , Zaichen Zhang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication, utilizing beamforming techniques to address the inherent path loss limitation, is considered as one of the key technologies to support ever increasing high throughput and low latency demands of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang