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Beam alignment - the process of finding an optimal directional beam pair - is a challenging procedure crucial to millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. We propose a novel beam alignment method that learns a site-specific probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Yuqiang Heng , Jianhua Mo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

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

Hybrid analog/digital beamforming is a promising technique to realize millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems cost-effectively. However, existing hybrid beamforming designs mainly rely on real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to meet the ever-growing data traffic of vehicular communications. Unfortunately, more frequent channel estimations are required in this spectrum due to the narrow beams…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Sina Shaham , Matthew Kokshoorn , Ming Ding , Zihuai Lin , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam

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

Beam alignment is a critical bottleneck in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication. An ideal beam alignment technique should achieve high beamforming (BF) gain with low latency, scale well to systems with higher carrier frequencies, larger…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yuqiang Heng , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In extremely large-scale multiple input multiple output (XL-MIMO) systems for future sixth-generation (6G) communications, codebook-based beam training stands out as a promising technology to acquire channel state information (CSI). Despite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tianyue Zheng , Jieao Zhu , Qiumo Yu , Yongli Yan , Linglong Dai

The emerging reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is promising for applications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems to effectively compensate for propagation loss or tackle the blockage issue. Considering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Yu Liu , Ming Chen , Cunhua Pan , Yijin Pan , Yinlu Wang , Yaoming Huang , Tianyang Cao , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we develop a deep learning (DL)-guided hybrid beam and power allocation approach for multiuser millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks, which facilitates swift beamforming at the base station (BS). The following persisting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Yuwen Cao , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Setareh Maghsudi , Tony Q. S. Quek

We propose a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system that leverages sensing to assist communication, ensuring fast initial access, seamless user tracking, and uninterrupted communication for millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Gui Zhou , Moritz Garkisch , Zhendong Peng , Cunhua Pan , Robert Schober

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large array gains is a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective communication in mmWaves usually depends on the knowledge of the channel. We refer to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

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

Terahertz (THz) communications have emerged as a key technology for escalating data rates in future generation wireless networks. However, severe propagation losses at THz frequencies pose significant challenges, which can be mitigated via…

Beam prediction is critical for reducing beam-training overhead in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, especially in high-mobility vehicular scenarios. This paper presents a BEV-Fusion based framework that unifies camera, LiDAR, radar, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Jiaming Zeng , Cunhua Pan , Haoyang Weng , Ruijing Liu , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

Beam tracking is an essential functionality of millimeter wave (mmWave, 30-100 GHz) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz, 100-300 GHz) 5G/6G systems. It operates by performing antenna sweeping at both base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) sides…

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

Due to the exponential increase in wireless devices and a diversification of network services, unprecedented challenges, such as managing heterogeneous data traffic and massive access demands, have arisen in next-generation wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhizhen Li , Xuanhao Luo , Mingzhe Chen , Chenhan Xu , Shiwen Mao , Yuchen Liu

Beamforming-capable antenna arrays with many elements enable higher data rates in next generation 5G and 6G networks. In current practice, analog beamforming uses a codebook of pre-configured beams with each of them radiating towards a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Alexander Mattick , George Yammine , Georgios Kontes , Setareh Maghsudi , Christopher Mutschler

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a competitive solution to address blockage issues in millimeter wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) communications due to its capability of reshaping wireless transmission environments.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Wei Zhang , Hongbin Li

The rapid expansion of oceanic applications such as underwater surveillance and mineral exploration is driving the need for real-time wireless backhaul of massive observational data. Such demands are challenging to meet using the narrowband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jiayue Liu , Tianqi Mao , Leyu Cao , Weijie Liu , Dezhi Zheng , Julian Cheng , Zhaocheng Wang