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The exploitation of the mm-wave bands is one of the most promising solutions for 5G mobile radio networks. However, the use of mm-wave technologies in cellular networks is not straightforward due to mm-wave harsh propagation conditions that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Antonio Capone , Ilario Filippini , Vincenzo Sciancalepore

The exploitation of mm-wave bands is one of the key-enabler for 5G mobile radio networks. However, the introduction of mm-wave technologies in cellular networks is not straightforward due to harsh propagation conditions that limit the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Ilario Filippini , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Francesco Devoti , Antonio Capone

We consider the problem of personalised news recommendation where each user consumes news in a sequential fashion. Existing personalised news recommendation methods focus on exploiting user interests and ignores exploration in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Mengyan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Fangzhao Wu , Zhenyu He , Xing Xie , Cheng Soon Ong

We present DeepIA, a deep neural network (DNN) framework for enabling fast and reliable initial access for AI-driven beyond 5G and 6G millimeter (mmWave) networks. DeepIA reduces the beam sweep time compared to a conventional exhaustive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Tarun S. Cousik , Vijay K. Shah , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Jeffrey H. Reed

Due to its static protocol design, IEEE 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi) channel access lacks adaptability to address dynamic network conditions, resulting in inefficient spectrum utilization, unnecessary contention, and packet collisions. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Miguel Casasnovas , Francesc Wilhelmi , Richard Combes , Maksymilian Wojnar , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Anders Jonsson , Luis Esteve , Boris Bellalta

We consider contextual linear bandits over networks, a class of sequential decision-making problems where learning occurs simultaneously across multiple locations and the reward distributions share structural similarities while also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Chuyun Deng , Huiwen Jia

Providing guaranteed quality of service for cell-edge users remains a longstanding challenge in wireless networks. While coordinated interference management was proposed decades ago, its potential has been limited by computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Tenghao Cai , Lei Li , Shutao Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Efficient Random Access (RA) is critical for enabling reliable communication in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks. Herein, we propose a deep reinforcement learning based distributed RA scheme, entitled Neural Network-Based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Prasoon Raghuwanshi , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Neelesh B. Mehta , Hirley Alves , Matti Latva-aho

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is expected to play an important role in next generation cellular networks, aiming to cope with the bandwidth shortage affecting conventional wireless carriers. Using side-information has been proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret

Supporting high mobility in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems enables a wide range of important applications such as vehicular communications and wireless virtual/augmented reality. Realizing this in practice, though, requires overcoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Sam Alex , Paul Varkey , Ying Li , Qi Qu , Djordje Tujkovic

The growth in wireless traffic and mobility of devices have congested the core network significantly. This bottleneck, along with spectrum scarcity, made the conventional cellular networks insufficient for the dissemination of large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Niloofar Bahadori , Mahmoud Nabil , Brian Kelley , Abdollah Homaifar

Deep learning provides powerful means to learn from spectrum data and solve complex tasks in 5G and beyond such as beam selection for initial access (IA) in mmWave communications. To establish the IA between the base station (e.g., gNodeB)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

Leveraging sensory information to aid the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) beam selection process is attracting increasing interest. This sensory data, captured for example by cameras at the basestations, has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Gouranga Charan , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The rise of large-scale pretrained models has made it feasible to generate predictive or synthetic features at low cost, raising the question of how to incorporate such surrogate predictions into downstream decision-making. We study this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Hao Yan , Heyan Zhang , Yongyi Guo

The challenging propagation environment, combined with the hardware limitations of mmWave systems, gives rise to the need for accurate initial access beam alignment strategies with low latency and high achievable beamforming gain. Much of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Daniel Tandler , Marc Gauger , Ahmet Serdar Tan , Sebastian Dörner , Stephan ten Brink

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

Dynamic Channel Bonding (DCB) allows for the dynamic selection and use of multiple contiguous basic channels in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). A WLAN operating under DCB can enjoy a larger bandwidth, when available, and therefore…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Azadeh Faridi , Boris Bellalta , Alessandro Checco

We study the multichannel quickest change detection problem with bandit feedback and controlled sensing, in which an agent sequentially selects one of the data streams to observe at each time-step and aims to detect an unknown change as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yu-Han Huang , Argyrios Gerogiannis , Subhonmesh Bose , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We propose a deep learning-based method that uses spatial and temporal information extracted from the sub-6GHz band to predict/track beams in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. In more detail, we consider a dual-band communication system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

We propose an Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) algorithm that exploits the structure of a hierarchical codebook of beamforming vectors using a best-arm identification Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) approach for initial alignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Nathan Blinn , Matthieu Bloch