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With transition towards 5G, mobile cellular networks are evolving into a powerful platform for ubiquitous large-scale information acquisition, communication, storage and processing. 5G will provide suitable services for mission-critical and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Mirsad Cosovic , Achilleas Tsitsimelis , Dejan Vukobratovic , Javier Matamoros , Carles Anton-Haro

Position-aided beam selection methods have been shown to be an effective approach to achieve high beamforming gain while limiting the overhead and latency of initial access in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Most research in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Sajad Rezaie , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

As 5G networks become more mainstream, privacy has come to the forefront of end users. More scrutiny has been shown to previous generation cellular technologies such as 3G and 4G on how they handle sensitive metadata transmitted from an end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Abshir Ali , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Cellular networks offer a unique opportunity to enable device-free and wide-area health monitoring by exploiting the sensitivity of radio-frequency (RF) propagation to human physiological activities. In this paper, we present the first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ruxin Lin , Peihao Yan , Jie Lu , Qijun Wang , Huacheng Zeng

Triggered by the explosion of mobile traffic, 5G (5th Generation) cellular network requires evolution to increase the system rate 1000 times higher than the current systems in 10 years. Motivated by this common problem, there are several…

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude increases in capacity for next-generation cellular systems. However, links in mmWave networks are susceptible to blockage and may suffer from rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Marco Giordani , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

Future 5G communication systems require more demanding performances than the existing cellular communication systems, e.g., 10 to 100 Mbps user data rate and much larger cellular spectrum efficiency. The well-used multiple access methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Shin-Yuan Wang , Wei-Han Hsiao , Kang-Lun Chiu , Chia-Chi Huang

In the past, NLOS propagation was shown to be a source of distortion for radio-based positioning systems. Every NLOS component was perceived as a perturbation which resulted from the lack of temporal and spatial resolution of previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rico Mendrzik , Henk Wymeersch , Gerhard Bauch , Zohair Abu-Shaban

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications requirebeamforming and consequent precise beam alignmentbetween the gNodeB (gNB) and the user equipment (UE) toovercome high propagation losses. This beam alignment needs tobe constantly updated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Enrico Tosi , Panwei Hu , Aleksandar Ichkov , Marina Petrova , Ljiljana Simić

The ongoing surge in applications of robotics brings both opportunities and challenges for the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond (B5G) of communication networks. This article focuses on 5G/B5G-enabled terrestrial robotic communications with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuanwei Liu , Xiao Liu , Xinyu Gao , Xidong Mu , Xiangwei Zhou , Octavia A. Dobre , H. Vincent Poor

Robust pedestrian safety is crucial to the next-generation of intelligent transportation systems. Such systems rely on active pedestrian localization and predictive collision alerts. Pedestrian localization can be supported by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Joshua Varughese , Joseba Gorospe , Novel Certad , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

The increasing complexity of configuring cellular networks suggests that machine learning (ML) can effectively improve 5G technologies. Deep learning has proven successful in ML tasks such as speech processing and computational vision, with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Aldebaro Klautau , Pedro Batista , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Yuyang Wang , Robert W. Heath

Future sub-THz cellular deployments may be utilized to complement the coverage of the global positioning system (GPS) and provide centimeter-level accuracy. In this work, we use measurement data at 142 GHz to test a map-based position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport

In this article, we address the prospects and key enabling technologies for highly efficient and accurate device positioning and tracking in 5G radio access networks. Building on the premises of ultra-dense networks as well as on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Mike Koivisto , Mário Costa , Janis Werner , Kari Heiska , Jukka Talvitie , Kari Leppänen , Visa Koivunen , Mikko Valkama

This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite System typically performs poorly in urban environments when there is no line-of-sight between the devices and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) communications. However, due to mobility and other imperfections in the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret , Henk Wymeersch

Shifting 6G-and-beyond wireless systems to higher frequency bands and the utilization of massive multiple-input multiple-output arrays will extend the near-field region, affecting beamforming and user localization schemes. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Nima Mozaffarikhosravi , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Italo Atzeni

Millimeter-wave (mmwave) communication represents a potential solution to capacity shortage in vehicular networks. However, effective beam alignment between senders and receivers requires accurate knowledge of the vehicles' position for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Zana Limani , Francesco Malandrino , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Alessandro Nordio

The problem of beam alignment (BA) in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system operating at millimeter wave (mmWaves) carrier frequencies is considered in this paper. Two estimation algorithms are proposed, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Xiaofeng Wu

Millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is expected to achieve enormous transmission rate, provided that the transmit and receive beams are properly aligned with the MIMO channel. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi jin , Rui Zhang