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The millimeter wave (mmWave) bands have attracted considerable attention for high precision localization applications due to the ability to capture high angular and temporal resolution measurements. This paper explores mmWave-based…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks offer the potential for high-speed data transfer and precise localization, leveraging large antenna arrays and extensive bandwidths. However, these networks are challenged by significant path loss and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shang-Ho Tsai , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen

In this letter, the mmAlert system, predicting millimeter wave (mmWave) link blockage during data communication, is elaborated and demonstrated. The passive sensing method is adopted for mobile blocker detection, where two receive beams…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Chao Yu , Yifei Sun , Yan Luo , Rui Wang

We propose to use a liquid time constant (LTC) network to predict the future blockage status of a millimeter wave (mmWave) link using only the received signal power as the input to the system. The LTC network is based on an ordinary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Martin H. Nielsen , Chia-Yi Yeh , Ming Shen , Muriel Médard

The surge in mobile broadband data demands is expected to surpass the available spectrum capacity below 6 GHz. This expectation has prompted the exploration of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands as a candidate technology for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Yahia Shabara , C. Emre Koksal , Eylem Ekici

Human blockage is one of the main challenges for mmWave communication networks in dynamic environments. The shadowing by a human body results in significant received power degradation and could occur abruptly and frequently. A shadowing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Rizqi Hersyandika , Yang Miao , Sofie Pollin

Millimeter wave communication systems can leverage information from sensors to reduce the overhead associated with link configuration. LIDAR (light detection and ranging) is one sensor widely used in autonomous driving for high resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Aldebaro Klautau , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

For reliable millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks, this paper proposes cooperative sensing with multi-camera operation in an image-to-decision proactive handover framework that directly maps images to a handover decision. In the framework,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Yusuke Koda , Koji Yamamoto , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura

Due to the short wavelength and large attenuation of millimeter-wave (mmWave), mmWave BSs are densely distributed and require beamforming with high directivity. When the user moves out of the coverage of the current BS or is severely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Bo Lin , Feifei Gao , Yong Zhang , Chengkang Pan , Guangyi Liu

In this paper, we propose BeamLLM, a vision-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) beam prediction framework leveraging large language models (LLMs) to address the challenges of high training overhead and latency in mmWave communication systems. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Can Zheng , Jiguang He , Guofa Cai , Zitong Yu , Chung G. Kang

The sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) channels in the angular and temporal domains is beneficial to channel estimation, while the associated channel parameters can be utilized for localization. However, line-of-sight (LoS) blockage poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Kunlun Li , Jiguang He , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lie-Liang Yang

Beam training and prediction in millimeter-wave communications are highly challenging due to fast time-varying channels and sensitivity to blockages and mobility. In this context, infrastructure-mounted cameras can capture rich…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Markku Juntti

In this paper, a novel proactive computing and mmWave communication for ultra-reliable and low latency wireless virtual reality (VR is proposed. By leveraging information about users' poses, proactive computing and caching are used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Cristina Perfecto , Mehdi Bennis , Klaus Doppler

Beamforming techniques have been widely used in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to mitigate the path loss of mmWave radio links as the narrow straight beams by directionally concentrating the signal energy. However, traditional mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Kan Zheng , Haojun Yang , Ziqiang Ying , Pengshuo Wang , Lajos Hanzo

Vision-aided wireless communication is motivated by the recent advances in deep learning and computer vision as well as the increasing dependence on line-of-sight links in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz systems. By leveraging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Jayden Booth , Andrew Hredzak , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Predictive millimeter-wave (mmWave) beamforming is a promising technique to enable low-latency and high-rate ground-air communications for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the high vulnerability of mmWave to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shiqi Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

Huge overhead of beam training poses a significant challenge to mmWave communications. To address this issue, beam tracking has been widely investigated whereas existing methods are hard to handle serious multipath interference and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Ke Ma , Dongxuan He , Hancun Sun , Zhaocheng Wang

Visual information, captured for example by cameras, can effectively reflect the sizes and locations of the environmental scattering objects, and thereby can be used to infer communications parameters like propagation directions, receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Weihua Xu , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The communication scenarios and channel characteristics of 6G will be more complex and difficult to characterize. Conventional methods for channel prediction face challenges in achieving an optimal balance between accuracy, practicality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xuejian Zhang , Ruisi He , Mi Yang , Zhengyu Zhang , Ziyi Qi , Bo Ai

The surge in mobile broadband data demands is expected to surpass the available spectrum capacity below $6$ GHz. This expectation has prompted the exploration of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands as a candidate technology for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yahia Shabara , C. Emre Koksal , Eylem Ekici