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3D beamforming is a promising approach for interference coordination in cellular networks which brings significant improvements in comparison with conventional 2D beamforming techniques. This paper investigates the problem of joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Soheil Khavari Moghaddam , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Active perception is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics in which the robot must decide where to move and what to sense in order to obtain the most informative observations for accomplishing its mission. Existing approaches either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kaixian Qu , Han Wang , Victor Klemm , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

Anytime heuristic search algorithms try to find a (potentially suboptimal) solution as quickly as possible and then work to find better and better solutions until an optimal solution is obtained or time is exhausted. The most widely-known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sofia Lemons , Wheeler Ruml , Robert C. Holte , Carlos Linares López

We consider a robust beamforming problem where large amount of downlink (DL) channel state information (CSI) data available at a multiple antenna access point (AP) is used to improve the link quality to a user equipment (UE) for beyond-5G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

Beam alignment (BA) is to ensure the transmitter and receiver beams are accurately aligned to establish a reliable communication link in millimeter-wave (mmwave) systems. Existing BA methods search the entire beam space to identify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Wen Wu , Nan Cheng , Ning Zhang , Peng Yang , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin , Shen

We investigate the applicability of deep reinforcement learning algorithms to the adaptive initial access beam alignment problem for mmWave communications using the state-of-the-art proximal policy optimization algorithm as an example. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Daniel Tandler , Sebastian Dörner , Marc Gauger , Stephan ten Brink

Beam search is widely used for approximate decoding in structured prediction problems. Models often use a beam at test time but ignore its existence at train time, and therefore do not explicitly learn how to use the beam. We develop an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-26 Renato Negrinho , Matthew R. Gormley , Geoffrey J. Gordon

The beam alignment (BA) problem consists in accurately aligning the transmitter and receiver beams to establish a reliable communication link in wireless communication systems. Existing BA methods search the entire beam space to identify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yi Wei , Zixin Zhong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The main focus of beam alignment is to find the optimal beam which yields the largest received signal strength (RSS) with faster speed.In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient beam alignment scheme with our testbed. The algorithm we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Junyeol Hong , Hyeonjin Chung , Sunwoo Kim

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

In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

We study the problem of selecting a user equipment (UE) and a beam for each access point (AP) for concurrent transmissions in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, such that the sum of weighted rates of UEs is maximized. We prove that this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Santosh Kumar Singh , Satyabrata Sahu , Ayushi Thawait , Prasanna Chaporkar , Gaurav S. Kasbekar

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

Next generation communication systems require accurate beam alignment to counteract the impairments that characterize propagation in high-frequency bands. The overhead of the pilot sequences required to select the best beam pair is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Tien Ngoc Ha , Daniel Romero , Roberto López-Valcarce

Millimeter-wave cellular communication requires beamforming procedures that enable alignment of the transmitter and receiver beams as the user equipment (UE) moves. For efficient beam tracking it is advantageous to classify users according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dino Pjanić , Alexandros Sopasakis , Harsh Tataria , Fredrik Tufvesson , Andres Reial

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

Beam search is a go-to strategy for decoding neural sequence models. The algorithm can naturally be viewed as a subset optimization problem, albeit one where the corresponding set function does not reflect interactions between candidates.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Clara Meister , Martina Forster , Ryan Cotterell

To meet the demand of supreme data rates in terabits-per-second, the next-generation mobile system needs to exploit the abundant spectrum in the millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. However, high-frequency transmission heavily relies on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Network connectivity is one of the major design issues in the context of mobile sensor networks. Due to diverse communication patterns, some nodes lying in high-traffic zones may consume more energy and eventually die out resulting in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Abbas Mirzaei , Shahram Zandiyan

Multibeam technology enables the use of two or more subbeams for joint communication and radio sensing, to meet different requirements of beamwidth and pointing directions. Generating and optimizing multibeam subject to the requirements is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Yuyue Luo , J. Andrew Zhang , Xiaojing Huang , Wei Ni , Jin Pan