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Future multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communications systems will use beamforming as a first-step towards realizing the capacity requirements necessitated by the exponential increase in data demands. The focus of this work is on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Dennis Ogbe , David J. Love , Vasanthan Raghavan

We study the secrecy rate maximization problem in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, consisting of a base station (BS), multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)), multiple users, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anahid Rafieifar , Hosein Ahmadinejad , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Jiguang He

The optimal beamforming design for multi-user continuous aperture array (CAPA) systems is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA), the beamformer for CAPA is a continuous function rather than a discrete vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

We propose BeamTransformer, an efficient architecture to leverage beamformer's edge in spatial filtering and transformer's capability in context sequence modeling. BeamTransformer seeks to optimize modeling of sequential relationship among…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Siqi Zheng , Shiliang Zhang , Weilong Huang , Qian Chen , Hongbin Suo , Ming Lei , Jinwei Feng , Zhijie Yan

As the excellent tools for aiding communication,intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can extend the coverage area, remove blind area, and achieve a dramatic rate improvement. In this paper, we improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yeqing Lin , Feng Shu , Yuxiang Zheng , Jing Liu , Rongen Dong , Xun Chen , Yue Wu , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Beamforming is an effective means to improve the quality of the received signals in multiuser multiple-input-single-output (MISO) systems. Traditionally, finding the optimal beamforming solution relies on iterative algorithms, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Wenchao Xia , Gan Zheng , Yongxu Zhu , Jun Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Athina P. Petropulu

This paper focuses on the joint design of transmit waveforms and receive filters for airborne multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems in spectrally crowded environments. The purpose is to maximize the output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Da Li , Bo Tang , Lei Xue

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

Acoustic beamforming aims to focus acoustic signals to a specific direction and suppress undesirable interferences from other directions. Despite its flexibility and steerability, beamforming with circular microphone arrays suffers from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Sipei Zhao , Fei Ma

Measured acoustic data can be contaminated by noise. This typically happens when microphones are mounted in a wind tunnel wall or on the fuselage of an aircraft, where hydrodynamic pressure fluctuations of the Turbulent Boundary Layer (TBL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Pieter Sijtsma , Alice Dinsenmeyer , Jérôme Antoni , Quentin Leclere

Beamforming is central to the processing function of all phased arrays and becomes particularly challenging with a large number of antenna element (e.g. >100,000). The ability to beamform efficiently with reasonable power requirements is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-25 A J Faulkner , K Zarb Adami , J. G. Bij de Vaate , G. W. Kant , P. Pickard

This paper investigates the problem of increasing the security at the physical layer of a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) network equipped with several Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs). In this network, multiple IRSs help the Base Station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anahid Rafieifar , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Broadband beamforming is a technique to obtain the signal with a wide range of frequencies. It maintains the signal integrity and spatial selectivity over frequencies. This is important in several applications such as microphone array,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Phan Le Son

The use of the millimeter (mm) wave spectrum for next generation (5G) mobile communication has gained significant attention recently. The small carrier wavelengths at mmwave frequencies enable synthesis of compact antenna arrays, providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Jaspreet Singh , Sudhir Ramakrishna

Extensive research on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has primarily focused on optimizing reflective coefficients for passive beamforming in specific target directions. This optimization typically assumes prior knowledge of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Xiao Cai , Hei Victor Cheng , Daniel E. Lucani

In this paper, we develop various beamforming techniques for downlink transmission for multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. First, a beamforming approach with perfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Faezeh Alavi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding , Alister G. Burr

Spherical microphone arrays have been recently studied for spatial sound recording, speech communication, and sound field analysis for room acoustics and noise control. Complementary theoretical studies presented progress in spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Boaz Rafaely

Sound source localization (SSL) technology plays a crucial role in various application areas such as fault diagnosis, speech separation, and vibration noise reduction. Although beamforming algorithms are widely used in SSL, their resolution…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wenbo Ma , Yan Lu , Yijun Liu

This work gives a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), aiming to boost the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across reflective elements in the absence of channel information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shuyi Ren , Kaiming Shen , Yaowen Zhang , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

We consider a network of agents that locate themselves in an environment through sensor measurements and aim to transmit a message signal to a base station via collaborative beamforming. The agents' sensor measurements result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Erfaun Noorani , Yagiz Savas , Alec Koppel , John Baras , Ufuk Topcu , Brian M. Sadler