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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is expected to play an important role in next generation cellular networks, aiming to cope with the bandwidth shortage affecting conventional wireless carriers. Using side-information has been proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret

In this paper, we propose an environment semantics aided wireless communication framework to reduce the transmission latency and improve the transmission reliability, where semantic information is extracted from environment image data,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Yuwen Yang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

Beamforming technique realized by the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays has been widely used to compensate for the severe path loss in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. In 5G NR system, the beam sweeping and beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yongjun Ahn , Jinhong Kim , Seungnyun Kim , Kyuhong Shim , Jiyoung Kim , Sangtae Kim , Byonghyo Shim

For millimeter-wave networks, this paper presents a paradigm shift for leveraging time-consecutive camera images in handover decision problems. While making handover decisions, it is important to predict future long-term performance---e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yusuke Koda , Kota Nakashima , Koji Yamamoto , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication enables high data rates for cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). However, a robust beam management remains challenging due to significant path loss and the dynamic mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Vendi Ardianto Nugroho , Byung Moo Lee

In the millimeter waves (mmWave) bands considered for 5G and beyond, the use of very high frequencies results in the interruption of communication whenever there is no line of sight between the transmitter and the receiver. Blockages have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Cristian García Ruiz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz-Medina

This article introduces a new method to improve the dependability of millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) network services in dynamic outdoor environments. In these settings, line-of-sight (LoS) connections are easily interrupted by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Mohammad Al-Quraan , Ahmed Zoha , Anthony Centeno , Haythem Bany Salameh , Sami Muhaidat , Muhammad Ali Imran , Lina Mohjazi

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication systems can provide high data rates, but the system performance may degrade significantly due to interruptions by mobile blockers such as humans or vehicles. A high frequency of interruptions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Ish Kumar Jain , Rajeev Kumar , Shivendra Panwar

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

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

Efficient millimeter wave (mmWave) beam selection in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication is a crucial yet challenging task due to the narrow mmWave beamwidth and high user mobility. To reduce the search overhead of iterative beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Matteo Zecchin , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Marios Kountouris , David Gesbert

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems can provide high data rates but the system performance may degrade significantly due to mobile blockers and the user's own body. A high frequency of interruptions and long duration of blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-13 Ish Kumar Jain

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is one feasible solution for high data-rate applications like vehicular-to-everything communication and next generation cellular communication. Configuring mmWave links, which can be done through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Anum Ali , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

5G millimeter wave (mmWave) technology is envisioned to be an integral part of next-generation vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks and autonomous vehicles due to its broad bandwidth, wide field of view sensing, and precise localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-06 Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Ismail Guvenc

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

This work investigates the use of machine learning applied to the beam tracking problem in 5G networks and beyond. The goal is to decrease the overhead associated to MIMO millimeter wave beamforming. In comparison to beam selection (also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Ailton Oliveira , Daniel Suzuki , Sávio Bastos , Ilan Correa , Aldebaro Klautau

We investigate the problem of wireless beam tracking on mmWave bands with the assistance of camera images. In particular, based on the user's beam indices used and camera images taken in the trajectory, we predict the optimal beam indices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yu Tian , Chenwei Wang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology is increasingly recognized as a pivotal technology of the sixth-generation communication networks due to the large amounts of available spectrum at high frequencies. However, the huge overhead associated…

Millimeter Waves (mmW) and sub-THz frequencies are the candidate bands for the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) of communication systems. The use of collimated beams at mmW/sub-THz to compensate for the increased path and penetration loss…

Vision-aided wireless communication is attracting increasing interest and finding new use cases in various wireless communication applications. These vision-aided communication frameworks leverage visual data captured, for example, by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb