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Mobile users are prone to experience beam failure due to beam drifting in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Sensing can help alleviate beam drifting with timely beam changes and low overhead since it does not need user feedback. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun

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

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. However, most of the existing codebooks adopt pre-defined beams that focus mainly on improving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Yu Zhang , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently gained popularity as a promising solution for improving the signal transmission quality of wireless communications with less hardware cost and energy consumption. This letter offers a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Wangyang Xu , Jiancheng An , Chongwen Huang , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

This paper presents a distributed beamforming framework for a constellation of airborne platform stations (APSs) in a massive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) non-terrestrial network (NTN) that targets the downlink sum-rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Hesam Khoshkbari , Georges Kaddoum , Omid Abbasi , Bassant Selim , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) massive MIMO systems often rely on predefined beamforming codebooks, which are usually suboptimal in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) conditions and for hardware-limited transceivers. Reinforcement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Anouar Nechi , Rainer Buchty , Mladen Berekovic , Saleh Mulhem

Machine learning applied to architecture design presents a promising opportunity with broad applications. Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques, in particular, enable efficient exploration in vast design spaces where…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ting-Ru Lin , Drew Penney , Massoud Pedram , Lizhong Chen

Directional beamforming is a crucial component for realizing robust wireless communication systems using millimeter wave (mmWave) technology. Beam alignment using brute-force search of the space introduces time overhead while location aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Vishnu Raj , Nancy Nayak , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper discusses the feasibility of beam tracking against dynamics in millimeter wave (mmWave) nodes placed on overhead messenger wires, including wind-forced perturbations and disturbances caused by impulsive forces to wires. Our main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Yusuke Koda , Masao Shinzaki , Koji Yamamoto , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura , Yushi Shirato , Daisei Uchida , Naoki Kita

Hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (HRIS) enhance wireless systems by combining passive reflection with active signal amplification. However, jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming with the HRIS reflection and amplification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Phuong Nam Tran , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing wireless communication by dynamically controlling signal propagation in the environment. However, their efficient deployment relies on accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Mohammad Ghassemi , Sara Farrag Mobarak , Han Zhang , Ali Afana , Akram Bin Sediq , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications is the key enabler of 5G cellular networks due to vast spectrum availability that could boost peak rate and capacity. Due to increased propagation loss in mmW band, transceivers with massive antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-20 Han Yan , Sridhar Ramesh , Timothy Gallagher , Curtis Ling , Danijela Cabric

We present a beamforming algorithm for multiuser wideband millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems where one access point uses hybrid analog/digital beamforming while multiple user stations have phased-arrays with a single RF chain.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Carlos A. Viteri-Mera , Fernando L. Teixeira

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

The escalating interests on underwater exploration/reconnaissance applications have motivated high-rate data transmission from underwater to airborne relaying platforms, especially under high-sea scenarios. Thanks to its broad bandwidth and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Jiayue Liu , Tianqi Mao , Dongxuan He , Yang Yang , Zhen Gao , Dezhi Zheng , Jun Zhang

This paper proposes a novel neural network architecture, that we call an auto-precoder, and a deep-learning based approach that jointly senses the millimeter wave (mmWave) channel and designs the hybrid precoding matrices with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Xiaofeng Li , Ahmed Alkhateeb

We introduce a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach to jointly optimize transmit beamforming and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) phase shifts in a multiuser multiple input single output (MU-MISO) system to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Baturay Saglam , Doga Gurgunoglu , Suleyman S. Kozat

Existing beamforming-based full-duplex solutions for multi-antenna wireless systems often rely on explicit estimation of the self-interference channel. The pilot overhead of such estimation, however, can be prohibitively high in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Samuel Li , Ian P. Roberts

Beamforming with large-scale antenna arrays has been widely used in recent years, which is acknowledged as an important part in 5G and incoming 6G. Thus, various techniques are leveraged to improve its performance, e.g., deep learning,…

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) is an important part of 5G new radio (NR), in which highly directional beams are adapted to compensate for the substantial propagation loss based on UE locations. However, the location information may have some…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yujie Yao , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci