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Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To compensate for the high pathloss of mmWave signals, large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ke Ma , Zhaocheng Wang , Wenqiang Tian , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

This paper proposes a deep learning approach to the adaptive and sequential beamforming design problem for the initial access phase in a mmWave environment with a single-path channel. For a single-user scenario where the problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Foad Sohrabi , Zhilin Chen , Wei Yu

We study Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits (CMABs) for non-episodic sequential decision making problems where the context includes both textual and numerical information (e.g., recommendation systems, dynamic portfolio adjustments, offer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Uljad Berdica , Fernando Acero , Anton Ipsen , Parisa Zehtabi , Michael Cashmore , Manuela Veloso

Millimeter wave (MmWave) has been regarded as a promising technology to support high-capacity communications in 5G era. However, its high-layer performance such as latency and packet drop rate in the long term highly depends on resource…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Yifei Sun , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Haisheng Tan , Francis C. M. Lau

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology is pivotal for next-generation wireless networks, enabling high-data-rate and low-latency applications such as autonomous vehicles and XR streaming. However, maintaining directional mmWave links in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Ish Kumar Jain , Suriyaa MM , Dinesh Bharadia

Conversational contextual bandits elicit user preferences by occasionally querying for explicit feedback on key-terms to accelerate learning. However, there are aspects of existing approaches which limit their performance. First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Zhiyong Wang , Xutong Liu , Shuai Li , John C. S. Lui

Edge computing environments impose strict constraints on energy consumption and latency, making the deployment of deep neural networks a significant challenge. Therefore, smart and adaptive inference strategies that dynamically balance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Grigorios Papanikolaou , Ioannis Kontopoulos , Konstantinos Tserpes

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam training technique for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. When some mobile users are under high mobility, the beam training should be performed frequently to ensure the accurate acquisition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Sun Hong Lim , Jisu Bae , Sunwoo Kim , Byonghyo Shim , Jun Won Choi

This paper proposes a cellular network exploiting millimeter-wave (mmWave) and ultra-densified base stations (BSs) to achieve the far-reaching 5G aim in downlink average rate. The mmWave overlaid network however incurs a pitfall that its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim , Jens Zander

The existing medium access control (MAC) protocol of Wi-Fi networks (i.e., carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)) suffers from poor performance in dense deployments due to the increasing number of collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Jiantao Xin , Wensen Xu , Yucheng Cai , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang , Peng Liu , Ziyang Guo , Jiajun Luo

Beam alignment (BA) is to ensure the transmitter and receiver beams are accurately aligned to establish a reliable communication link in millimeter-wave (mmwave) systems. Existing BA methods search the entire beam space to identify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Wen Wu , Nan Cheng , Ning Zhang , Peng Yang , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin , Shen

Sensor-aided beamforming reduces the overheads associated with beam training in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. Most prior work, though, neglects the challenges associated with establishing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Robert W. Heath

We present conservative distributed multi-task learning in stochastic linear contextual bandits with heterogeneous agents. This extends conservative linear bandits to a distributed setting where M agents tackle different but related tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiabin Lin , Shana Moothedath

Millimeter Waves (mmWave) systems have the potential of enabling multi-gigabit-per-second communications in future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). Unfortunately, because of the increased vehicular mobility, they require frequent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ioannis Mavromatis , Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki , Andrew Nix

With increasing density and heterogeneity in unlicensed wireless networks, traditional MAC protocols, such as carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in Wi-Fi networks, are experiencing performance degradation. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiantao Xin , Wei Xu , Bin Cao , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang

This paper aims to exploit the fundamental limits on the downlink coverage and spatial throughput performances of a cellular network comprised of a tier of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) using the millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Chun-Hung Liu , Kai-Hsiang Ho , Jwo-Yuh Wu

Ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) is the cornerstone for a broad range of emerging services in next-generation wireless networks. URLLC fundamentally relies on the network's ability to proactively determine whether sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Omid Semiari , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar

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

Availability of abundant spectrum has enabled millimeter wave (mm-wave) as a prominent candidate solution for the next generation cellular networks. Highly directional transmissions are essential for exploitation of mm-wave bands to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yilin Li , Jian Luo , Mario Castaneda , Richard Stirling-Gallacher , Wen Xu , Giuseppe Caire

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with millimeter wave (mm-wave) communications are considered as a promising technology for the fifth generation mobile networks. Mm-wave has the potential to provide multiple gigabit data rate due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Ruisi He , Zhangdui Zhong , Zhu Han