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Communication at terahertz (THz) frequency bands is a promising solution for achieving extremely high data rates in next-generation wireless networks. While the THz communication is conventionally envisioned for short-range wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Arian Ahmadi , Omid Semiari

This paper studies initial beam acquisition in a millimeter wave network consisting of multiple access points (APs) and mobile devices. A training protocol for joint estimation of transmit and receive beams is presented with a general frame…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-14 Hao Zhou , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

This paper investigates a novel research direction that leverages vision to help overcome the critical wireless communication challenges. In particular, this paper considers millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Andrew Hredzak , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Future wireless networks may operate at millimeter-wave (mmW) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) frequencies to enable high data rate requirements. While large antenna arrays are critical for reliable communications at mmW and sub-THz bands, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Benjamin W. Domae , Veljko Boljanovic , Ruifu Li , Danijela Cabric

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

Enabling the high data rates of millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems requires deploying large antenna arrays at both the basestations and mobile users. The beamforming weights of these large arrays need to be tuned to guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Young-Han Nam , Md Saifur Rahman , Jianzhong Zhang , Robert W. Heath

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

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

This article investigates beam alignment for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output system. Unlike the existing works using machine learning (ML), an alignment method with partial beams using ML (AMPBML) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Wenyan Ma , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

Millimeter-wave communication is a challenge in the highly mobile vehicular context. Traditional beam training is inadequate in satisfying low overheads and latency. In this paper, we propose to combine machine learning tools and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yuyang Wang , Murali Narasimha , Robert W. Heath

Compared to the current wireless communication systems, millimeter wave (mm-Wave) promises a wide range of spectrum. As viable alternatives to existing mm-Wave channel models, various map-based channel models with different modeling methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yeon-Geun Lim , Yae Jee Cho , MinSoo Sim , Younsun Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela

Millimeter-wave communications is the most promising technology for next-generation cellular wireless systems, thanks to the large bandwidth available compared to sub-6 GHz networks. Nevertheless, communication at these frequencies requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-20 Rana A. Hassan , Nicolo Michelusi

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication technology, which employs large-scale antenna arrays, enables inherent sensing capabilities. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) can utilize channel multipath angle estimates to realize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hang Que , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shuqiang Xia , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

In mm-wave networks, cell sizes are small due to high path and penetration losses. Mobiles need to frequently switch softly from one cell to another to preserve network connections and context. Each soft handover involves the mobile…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Santosh Ganji , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Jaewon Kim , P. R. Kumar

Millimeter-wave and terahertz systems rely on beamforming/combining codebooks to determine the best beam directions during the initial access and data transmission. Existing approaches suffer from large codebook sizes and high beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Jens Zander , Marina Petrova

Mobile users are prone to experience beam failure due to beam drifting in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Sensing can help alleviate beam drifting with timely beam changes and low overhead since it does not need user feedback. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. Being pre-defined, however, these codebooks are commonly not optimized for specific environments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In future drone applications fast moving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will need to be connected via a high throughput ultra reliable wireless link. MmWave communication is assumed to be a promising technology for UAV communication, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Achiel Colpaert , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

This paper focuses on multiuser MIMO channel estimation and data transmission at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. The proposed approach relies on the time-division-duplex (TDD) protocol and is based on two distinct phases. First of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication, utilizing beamforming techniques to address the inherent path loss limitation, is considered as one of the key technologies to support ever increasing high throughput and low latency demands of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang