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This paper proposes an adaptive near-field beam training method to enhance performance in multi-user and multipath environments. The approach identifies multiple strongest beams through beam sweeping and linearly combines their received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zijun Wang , Rama Kiran , Jinesh Nair , Chien-Hua Chen , Tzu-Han Chou , Shawn Tsai , Rui Zhang

This letter proposes a linear bandit-based beam training framework for near-field communication under multi-path channels. By leveraging Thompson Sampling (TS), the framework adaptively balances exploration and exploitation to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Junchi Liu , Zijun Wang , Rui Zhang

This work establishes a framework of near-field communication under different array geometries of extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO). We first formulate the near-field spatial non-stationary channel model which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Kangda Zhi , Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Tuo Wu , Tengjiao Wang , Songyan Xue , Fangzhou Wu , Giuseppe Caire

Extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) can provide higher spectral efficiency. However, the use of narrower beams for data transmission significantly increases the overhead associated with beam training. In this letter, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Hongkang Yu , Yuan Si , Shujuan Zhang , Yijian Chen

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam training technique for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. When some mobile users are under high mobility, the beam training should be performed frequently to ensure the accurate acquisition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Sun Hong Lim , Jisu Bae , Sunwoo Kim , Byonghyo Shim , Jun Won Choi

Near-field propagation in extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) enlarges the beam training (BT) search space by introducing an additional range dimension, which makes conventional codebook-based beam sweeping prohibitively expensive under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Xinyang Li , Songjie Yang , Xiang Ling , Jianhui Song , Yibo Wang , Hua Chen

In near-field extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, spherical wavefront propagation expands the traditional beam codebook into the joint angular-distance domain, rendering conventional beam training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Mengyuan Li , Qianfan Lu , Jiachen Tian , Hongjun Hu , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Chao-kai Wen , Shi Jin

Millimeter-wave communications rely on beamforming gain from both transmitters and receivers to compensate for severe propagation loss. To achieve adequate gain, beam training is required to identify propagation directions. The main…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Han Yan , Veljko Boljanovic , Danijela Cabric

In millimeter-wave communication, large antenna arrays are required to achieve high power gain by steering towards each other with narrow beams, which poses the problem to efficiently search the best beam direction in the angle domain at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhenyu Xiao , Tong He , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Fast and precise beam alignment is crucial to support high-quality data transmission in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning based hierarchical beam alignment method that learns two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Junyi Yang , Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao

Beam training is one of the most important and challenging tasks in millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz communications. Novel transceiver architectures and signal processing techniques are required to avoid prohibitive training overhead when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Veljko Boljanovic , Han Yan , Erfan Ghaderi , Deukhyoun Heo , Subhanshu Gupta , Danijela Cabric

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) at millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands plays an important role in supporting extreme high beamforming gain as well as ultra-wideband spectrum resources.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Mingyao Cui , Linglong Dai

Swift and accurate alignment of transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) beams is a fundamental design challenge to enable reliable outdoor millimeter-wave communications. In this paper, we propose a new Optimized Two-Stage Search (OTSS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Min Li , Chunshan Liu , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

Multi-directional 3D printing has the capability of decreasing or eliminating the need for support structures. Recent work proposed a beam-guided search algorithm to find an optimized sequence of plane-clipping, which gives volume…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chenming Wu , Yong-Jin Liu , Charlie C. L. Wang

Near-field communication comes to be an indispensable part of the future sixth generation (6G) communications at the arrival of the forth-coming deployment of extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Haochen Wu , Liyang Lu , Zhaocheng Wang

Meeting the high data rate demands of modern applications necessitates the utilization of high-frequency spectrum bands, including millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz bands. However, these frequencies require precise alignment of narrow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Sachira Karunasena , Erfan Khordad , Thomas Drummond , Rajitha Senanayake

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high carrier frequencies in future wireless systems gives rise to near-field communications, where the curvature of spherical wavefronts renders traditional far-field beamforming models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper proposes a deep learning-based beamforming design framework that directly maps a target beam pattern to optimal beamforming vectors across multiple antenna array architectures, including digital, analog, and hybrid beamforming.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hongpu Zhang , Shu Sun , Hangsong Yan , Jianhua Mo

Beamforming-capable antenna arrays overcome the high free-space path loss at higher carrier frequencies. However, the beams must be properly aligned to ensure that the highest power is radiated towards (and received by) the user equipment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 George Yammine , Georgios Kontes , Norbert Franke , Axel Plinge , Christopher Mutschler

Employing large antenna arrays and utilizing large bandwidth have the potential of bringing very high data rates to future wireless communication systems. However, this brings the system into the near-field regime and also makes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb