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The upsurge in wireless devices and real-time service demands force the move to a higher frequency spectrum. Millimetre-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands combined with the beamforming technology offer significant performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Mohammad Al-Quraan , Ahsan Khan , Lina Mohjazi , Anthony Centeno , Ahmed Zoha , Muhammad Ali Imran

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems can provide high data rates but the system performance may degrade significantly due to mobile blockers and the user's own body. A high frequency of interruptions and long duration of blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-06 Ish Kumar Jain , Rajeev Kumar , Shivendra Panwar

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) communications. However, due to mobility and other imperfections in the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam tracking method for mobility scenario in mmWave-band communications. When the position of the mobile changes in mobility scenario, the base-station needs to perform beam training frequently to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jisu Bae , Sun Hong Lim , Jin Hyeok Yoo , Jun Won Choi

The use of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum for commercial wireless communications is expected to offer data rates in the order of Gigabits-per-second, thus able to support future applications such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Anastasios Dimas , Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Athina P. Petropulu

Millimeter Waves (mmW) and sub-THz frequencies are the candidate bands for the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) of communication systems. The use of collimated beams at mmW/sub-THz to compensate for the increased path and penetration loss…

Huge overhead of beam training imposes a significant challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communications. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a wide beam based training approach to calibrate the narrow beam direction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Ke Ma , Dongxuan He , Hancun Sun , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications systems are promising candidate to support extremely high data rate services in future wireless networks. MmWave communications exhibit high penetration loss (blockage) and require directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Roberto Congiu , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Fortunato Santucci

Millimeter wave (mmWave) bands are considered a powerful key enabler for next generation (5G) mobile networks by providing multi-Gbps data rates. However, their severe pathloss and sensitivity to blockage present challenges in practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Xiaoshen Song , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates a novel research direction that leverages vision to help overcome the critical wireless communication challenges. In particular, this paper considers millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Andrew Hredzak , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter wave (mmWave) has been recognized as one of key technologies for 5G and beyond networks due to its potential to enhance channel bandwidth and network capacity. The use of mmWave for various applications including vehicular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Abdulkadir Kose , Haeyoung Lee , Chuan Heng Foh , Mohammad Shojafar

A fundamental challenge for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications lies in its sensitivity to the presence of blockages, which impact the connectivity of the communication links and ultimately the reliability of the entire network. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Marco Di Renzo

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications require beamforming to acquire adequate receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To find the optimal beam, current beam management solutions perform beam training over a large number…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Shuaifeng Jiang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication systems can provide high data rates, but the system performance may degrade significantly due to interruptions by mobile blockers such as humans or vehicles. A high frequency of interruptions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Ish Kumar Jain , Rajeev Kumar , Shivendra Panwar

The sensitivity of millimeter wave (mmWave) signals to blockages is a fundamental challenge for mobile mmWave communication systems. The sudden blockage of the line-of-sight (LOS) link between the base station and the mobile user normally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Iz Beltagy

Blockage due to obstacles in millimeter wave (mmWave) device to device (D2D) communication is a prominent problem due to their severe penetration losses. Potential user equipments (UEs) in vicinity of the source UE must be explored in order…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Durgesh Singh , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Sasthi C. Ghosh

One of the most promising approaches to overcome the uncertainty and dynamic channel variations of millimeter wave (mmW) communications is to deploy dual-mode base stations that integrate both mmW and microwave ($\mu$W) frequencies. If…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Behrouz Maham

Millimeter wave (mmW) wireless networks are capable to support multi-gigabit data rates, by using directional communications with narrow beams. However, existing mmW communications standards are hindered by two problems: deafness and single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Lazaros Gkatzikis , Carlo Fischione

Beam selection for joint transmission in cell-free massive multi-input multi-output systems faces the problem of extremely high training overhead and computational complexity. The traffic-aware quality of service additionally complicates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chenyang Wang , Cheng Zhang , Fan Meng , Yongming Huang , Wei Zhang