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Distributed massive MIMO is considered a key advancement for improving the performance of next-generation wireless telecommunication systems. However, its efficacy in scenarios involving user mobility is limited due to channel aging. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Phillip Stephan , Florian Euchner , Stephan ten Brink

Timely channel information is necessary for vehicles to determine both the serving base station (BS) and the beamforming vector, but frequent estimation of fast-fading mmWave channels incurs significant overhead. To address this challenge,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaoyang He , Manabu Tsukada

This paper presents a comparative study on millimeter wave (mmWave) location-based analog beamforming (BF) techniques based on channel estimation. Localization and compressive sensing (CS) effectively reduces mmWave BF complexity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-23 Ahmed Abdelreheem , Ahmed M. Nor , Ahmed S. A. Mubarak , Hamada Esmaiel , Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed

Channel charting (CC) is a self-supervised positioning technique whose main limitation is that the estimated positions lie in an arbitrary coordinate system that is not aligned with true spatial coordinates. In this work, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 José Miguel Mateos-Ramos , Frederik Zumegen , Henk Wymeersch , Christian Häger , Christoph Studer

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

Channel knowledge map (CKM), which aims to directly reflect the intrinsic channel properties of the local wireless environment, is a novel technique for achieving environmentaware communication. In this paper, to alleviate the large…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Zhuoyin Dai , Di Wu , Zhenjun Dong , Kun Li , Dingyang Ding , Sihan Wang , Yong Zeng

Channel Charting is a dimensionality reduction technique that learns to reconstruct a low-dimensional, physically interpretable map of the radio environment by taking advantage of similarity relationships found in high-dimensional channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Florian Euchner , Phillip Stephan , Stephan ten Brink

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is considered as a key enabler of ultra-high data rates in the future cellular and wireless networks. The need for directional communication between base stations (BSs) and users in mmWave systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Marina Petrova

With the proliferation of deep learning techniques for wireless communication, several works have adopted learning-based approaches to solve the channel estimation problem. While these methods are usually promoted for their computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Mohamed Akrout , Amal Feriani , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Millimeter wave channels exhibit structure that allows beam alignment with fewer channel measurements than exhaustive beam search. From a compressed sensing (CS) perspective, the received channel measurements are usually obtained by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Yuyang Wang , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

Fingerprint-based passive localization enables high localization accuracy using low-cost UWB IoT radio sensors. However, fingerprinting demands extensive effort for data acquisition. The concept of channel charting reduces this effort by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Raffael Poeggel , Maximilian Stahlke , Jonas Pirkl , Jonathan Ott , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Christopher Mutschler

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

In order to break through the development bottleneck of modern wireless communication networks, a critical issue is the out-of-date channel state information (CSI) in high mobility scenarios. In general, non-stationary CSI has statistical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Guanzhang Liu , Zhengyang Hu , Lei Wang , Hongying Zhang , Jiang Xue , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we propose a learning-based low-overhead beam alignment method for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication in vehicular networks. The main idea is to remotely infer the optimal beam directions at a target base station in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sheng Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

To alleviate the pilot and CSI-feedback burden in 6G, channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a promising approach that predicts CSI solely from user locations. Nevertheless, accurate location information is rarely available in current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

This paper investigates the optimization of the long-standing probabilistically robust transmit beamforming problem with channel uncertainties in the multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink transmission. This problem poses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kai Liang , Gan Zheng , Zan Li , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a crucial technology for next-generation communication, enabling the construction of high-fidelity mappings between spatial environments and channel parameters via electromagnetic information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Haohan Wang , Xu Shi , Hengyu Zhang , Yashuai Cao , Jintao Wang

Can we map the channels at one set of antennas and one frequency band to the channels at another set of antennas---possibly at a different location and a different frequency band? If this channel-to-channel mapping is possible, we can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The model order of a wireless channel plays an important role for a variety of applications in communications engineering, e.g., it represents the number of resolvable incident wavefronts with non-negligible power incident from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Michael Baur , Michael Würth , Michael Koller , Vlad-Costin Andrei , Wolfgang Utschick

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