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Accurate beam alignment is essential for beam-based millimeter wave communications. Conventional beam sweeping solutions often have large overhead, which is unacceptable for mobile applications like vehicle-to-everything. Learning-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Vutha Va , Takayuki Shimizu , Gaurav Bansal , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we propose a quadruple-UPA architecture for realizing the beamforming with wide coverage in terahertz (THz) communication. Considering the severe path loss suffered in the THz wave propagation, the pilot signals of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Zhongbao Tian , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Beam search is a desirable choice of test-time decoding algorithm for neural sequence models because it potentially avoids search errors made by simpler greedy methods. However, typical cross entropy training procedures for these models do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Kartik Goyal , Graham Neubig , Chris Dyer , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Terahertz (THz) band is considered a promising candidate to meet the high-throughput requirement for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications due to its ultrawide bandwidth. However, due to the high penetration loss at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Caihao Weng , Yuqing Guo , Bowen Zhao , Ying Wang , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam tracking method for mobility scenario in mmWave-band communications. When the position of the mobile changes in mobility scenario, the base-station needs to perform beam training frequently to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jisu Bae , Sun Hong Lim , Jin Hyeok Yoo , Jun Won Choi

Accurate beam alignment is a critical challenge in XL-MIMO systems, especially in the near-field regime, where conventional far-field assumptions no longer hold. Although 2D grid-based codebooks in the polar domain are widely accepted for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Hongjun Heo , Wan Choi

In millimeter wave communications, beam training is an effective way to achieve beam alignment. Traditional beam training method allocates training resources equally to each beam in the pre-designed beam training codebook. The performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Zihan Tang , Jun Wang , Jintao Wang , Jian Song

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

Large antenna arrays can be used to generate highly focused beams that support very high data rates and reduced energy consumption. However, optimal beam focusing requires large amount of feedback from the users in order to choose the best…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Abdoulaye Tall , Zwi Altman , Eitan Altman

Hierarchical beam search in mmWave communications incurs substantial training overhead, necessitating deep learning-enabled beam predictions to effectively leverage channel priors and mitigate this overhead. In this study, we introduce a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Fan Meng , Cheng Zhang , Yongming Huang , Zhilei Zhang , Xiaoyu Bai , Zhaohua Lu

With the enlargement of antenna apertures in 6G Terahertz (THz) communications, the Rayleigh distance expands significantly, rendering near-field propagation a dominant scenario in THz links. Beyond conventional Line-of-Sight (LoS) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Wenqi Zhao , Chong Han

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

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks. By significantly boosting the antenna number or size to at least an order of magnitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Changsheng You , Yu Han , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Zhenjun Dong , Shi Jin , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tao Jiang , Xiaohu You , Rui Zhang

Hybrid beamforming for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems is challenging in the near field because the channel depends jointly on angle and distance, and the multiuser interference (MUI) is strong.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Xinyang Li , Songjie Yang , Boyu Ning , Zongmiao He , Xiang Ling , Chau Yuen

A near-field wideband communication system is investigated in which a base station (BS) employs an extra-large scale antenna array (ELAA) to serve multiple users in its near-field region. To facilitate near-field multi-user beamforming and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) is envisioned to achieve super-high spectral efficiency in future wireless networks. Different from the existing works that mostly focus on the near-field communications, we consider in this paper a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Li Chen , Beixiong Zheng

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

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is expected to be an important technology in future sixth generation (6G) networks. Compared with conventional single-polarized XL-MIMO, where signals are transmitted and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shuhao Zeng , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Sequence-to-sequence neural networks have been widely used in language-based applications as they have flexible capabilities to learn various language models. However, when seeking for the optimal language response through trained neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Pierre Colombo , Chouchang Yang , Giovanna Varni , Chloé Clavel