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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication, utilizing beamforming techniques to address the inherent path loss limitation, is considered as one of the key technologies to support ever increasing high throughput and low latency demands of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) has been claimed to be the only viable solution for high-bandwidth vehicular communications. However, frequent channel estimation and beamforming required to provide a satisfactory quality of service limits mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Sina Shaham , Ming Ding , Matthew Kokshoorn , Zihuai Lin , Shuping Dang , Rana Abbas

This paper develops a novel channel estimation approach for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent mmWave channel sparsity, we propose a novel simultaneous-estimation with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

We investigate beam training and allocation for multiuser millimeter wave massive MIMO systems. An orthogonal pilot based beam training scheme is first developed to reduce the number of training times, where all users can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Xuyao Sun , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) systems relying on lens antenna arrays are capable of achieving a high antenna-gain at a considerably reduced number of radio frequency (RF) chains via beam selection. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Wenqian Shen , Xiangyuan Bu , Xinyu Gao , Chengwen Xing , Lajos Hanzo

Beamforming is one of the key techniques in millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications. Designing appropriate beamforming not only improves the quality and strength of the received signal, but also can help…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Channel estimation is very challenging when the receiver is equipped with a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) chains in beamspace millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input and multiple-output systems. To solve this problem, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Hengtao He , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Beam alignment for millimeter wave (mm Wave) vehicular communications is challenging due to the high mobility of vehicles. Recent studies have proposed some beam switching techniques at Road Side Unit (RSU) for vehicle to infrastructure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 Hamed Mohammadi , Reza Mohammadkhani

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems require large antenna arrays and use narrow directive beams to ensure sufficient receive signal power. However, selecting the optimal beams for these large antenna arrays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Establishing and maintaining millimeter-wave (mmWave) links is challenging due to the changing environment and the high sensibility of mmWave signal to user mobility and channel conditions. MmWave link configuration problems often involve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Yi Zhang , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

When Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) perform high-precision communication tasks, such as searching for users and providing emergency coverage, positioning errors between base stations and users make it challenging to deploy trajectory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Chiya Zhang , Ting Wang , Chunlong He

Wireless backhaul communication has been recently realized with large antennas operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band and implementing highly directional beamforming. In this paper, we focus on the alignment problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 George C. Alexandropoulos

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication links for 5G cellular technology require high beamforming gain to overcome channel impairments and achieve high throughput. While much work has focused on estimating mmWave channels and designing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Stephen G. Larew , David J. Love

The key obstacle to achieving the full potential of the millimeter wave (mmWave) band has been the poor propagation characteristics of wireless signals in this band. One approach to overcome this issue is to use antennas that can support…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hani Mehrpouyan , Vida Vakilian , Nader Behdad , Hamid Jafarkhani

Enabling the high data rates of millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems requires deploying large antenna arrays at both the basestations and mobile users. The beamforming weights of these large arrays need to be tuned to guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Young-Han Nam , Md Saifur Rahman , Jianzhong Zhang , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology for 5G cellular systems. To compensate for the severe path loss in mmWave systems, large antenna arrays are generally used to achieve significant beamforming gains. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Recently, a switch-based hybrid massive MIMO structure that aims to reduce the hardware complexity and power consumption has been proposed as a potential candidate for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Exploiting the sparse nature of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Rui Hu , Jun Tong , Jiangtao Xi , Qinghua Guo , Yanguang Yu

Machine learning tools are finding interesting applications in millimeter wave (mmWave) and massive MIMO systems. This is mainly thanks to their powerful capabilities in learning unknown models and tackling hard optimization problems. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Ahmed Alkhateeb

Next generation wireless networks will exploit the large amount of spectrum available at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. Design of mmWave systems, however, is challenging due to strict power, cost and hardware constraints at higher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath