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There has been a growing interest in the commercialization of millimeter wave (mmW) technology as a part of the Fifth-Generation New Radio (5G-NR) wireless standardization efforts. In this direction, many sets of independent measurement…

We show that cloaking of isolated objects is subject to a diameter-bandwidth product limitation: as the size of the object increases, the bandwidth of good (small cross-section) cloaking decreases inversely with the diameter, as a…

The widespread use of wireless technologies leads to an ever-increasing number of users and permanently functioning devices. However, the growth of the number of wireless users in a limited space and a limited frequency range leads to an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Volodymyr Astapenya , Volodymyr Sokolov , Mahyar TajDini

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

Super-oscillating beams can be used to create light spots whose size is below the diffraction limit with a side ring of high intensity adjacent to them. Optical traps made of the super-oscillating part of such beams exhibit superior…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 Harel Nagar , Tamir Admon , Doron Goldman , Amir Eyal , Yael Roichman

With the overcrowded sub-6 GHz bands, millimeter wave (mmWave) bands offer a promising alternative for the next generation wireless standard, i.e., 5G. However, the susceptibility of mmWave signals to severe pathloss and shadowing requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-13 Solmaz Niknam , Balasubramaniam Natarajan , Reza Barazideh

In mobile wireless networks with blockage, different users, and/or a single user at different time slots, may be blocked by some common obstacles. Therefore the temporal correlation of interference does not depend only on the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Konstantinos Koufos , Carl P. Dettmann

The challenge to in-band full-duplex wireless communication is managing self-interference. Many designs have employed spatial isolation mechanisms, such as shielding or multi-antenna beamforming, to isolate the self-interference wave from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Evan Everett , Ashutosh Sabharwal

We explore degrees of freedom (DoF) characterizations of partially connected wireless networks, especially cellular networks, with no channel state information at the transmitters. Specifically, we introduce three fundamental elements ---…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Syed A. Jafar

The link misalignment and high susceptibility to blockages are the biggest hurdles in realizing 60GHz based wireless local area networks (WLANs). However, much of the previous studies investigating 60GHz alignment and blockage issues do not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Kishor Chandra Joshi , Rizqi Hersyandika , R. Venkatesha Prasad

Provisioning of high throughput millimetre-wave signal to indoor areas that potentially serve a large number of users, such as transportation hubs or convention centres, will require dedicated indoor millimetre-wave access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Fadhil Firyaguna , Jacek Kibilda , Carlo Galiotto , Nicola Marchetti

Optical wireless communication (OWC) systems are a promising communication technology that can provide high data rates into the tens of Tb/s and can support multiple users at the same time. This paper investigates the optimum allocation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Osama Alsulami , Amal Alahmadi , Sarah Saeed , Sana Hamid Mohamed , Taisir El-Gorashi , Mohammed Alresheedi , Jaafar Elmirghani

A critical challenge for wireless communications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is blockage. MmWave signals suffer significant penetration losses from many common materials and objects, and small changes in the position of obstacles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Christopher Slezak , Menglei Zhang , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

In this paper, wireless systems operating under queueing constraints in the form of limitations on the buffer violation probabilities are considered. The throughput under such constraints is captured by the effective capacity formulation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Optical wireless communication (OWC) has recently received massive interest as a new technology that can support the enormous data traffic increasing on daily basis. In particular, laser-based OWC networks can provide terabits per second…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Khulood Alazwary , Taisir El-Gorashi , Majid Safari , Harald Haas , Richard V. Penty , Ian H. White , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

In a water-air optical wireless communication (OWC) channel, dynamic ocean waves may significantly deflect the light beam from its original direction, thus deteriorating the communication performance. In this letter, a beam tracking system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Yujie Di , Yingjie Shao , Lian-Kuan Chen

It is difficult for free space optical communication to be applied in mobile communication due to the obstruction of obstacles in the environment, which is expected to be solved by reconfigurable intelligent surface technology. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Haibo Wang , Zaichen Zhang , Bingcheng Zhu , Jian Dang , Liang Wu , Lei Wang , Kehan Zhang , Yidi Zhang

Surface topography dictates the deterministic functionality of diffraction by a surface. In order to maximize the efficiency with which a diffractive optical component, such as a grating or a diffractive lens, directs light into a chosen…

Communications using frequency bands in the millimeter-wave range can play a key role in future generations of mobile networks. By allowing large bandwidth allocations, high carrier frequencies will provide high data rates to support the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Cristian Tatino , Ilaria Malanchini , Danish Aziz , Di Yuan

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