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This paper presents a method, namely mmTracking, for device trajectory tracking in a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system. In mmTracking, the base station (BS) relies on one line-of-sight (LoS) path and at least two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Cheng Lin , Chao Yu , Xiaowei Xu , Rui Wang

This paper provides the first real-world evaluation of using visual (RGB camera) data and machine learning for proactively predicting millimeter wave (mmWave) dynamic link blockages before they happen. Proactively predicting line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Radio localization and sensing are anticipated to play a crucial role in enhancing radio resource management in future networks. In this work, we focus on millimeter-wave communications, which are highly vulnerable to blockages, leading to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Hiba Dakdouk , Mohamed Sana , Benoit Denis

The freshness of information, measured as Age of Information (AoI), is critical for many applications in next-generation wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to its high bandwidth, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is seen to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Yifei Sun , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Haisheng Tan , Francis C. M. Lau

We present a tracking algorithm to maintain the communication link between a base station (BS) and a mobile station (MS) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, where antenna arrays are used for beamforming in both the BS and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Kang Gao , Mingming Cai , Ding Nie , Bertrand Hochwald , J. Nicholas Laneman , Huang Huang , Kunpeng Liu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) propagation is known to be severely affected by the blockage of the line-of-sight (LoS) path. In contrast to microwave systems, at shorter mmWave wavelengths such blockage can be caused by human bodies, where their…

Management of narrow directional beams is critical for mm-wave communication systems. Translational or rotational motion of the user can cause misalignment of transmit and receive beams with the base station losing track of the mobile.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Santosh Ganji , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Francisco A. Espinal , P. R. Kumar

5G millimeter wave (mmWave) technology is envisioned to be an integral part of next-generation vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks and autonomous vehicles due to its broad bandwidth, wide field of view sensing, and precise localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-06 Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Ismail Guvenc

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems can provide high data rates but the system performance may degrade significantly due to mobile blockers and the user's own body. A high frequency of interruptions and long duration of blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-13 Ish Kumar Jain

The performance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) communication systems is significantly impaired by sensitivity to sudden blockages. In this work, we employ machine learning (ML) and our physics-based simulation tool…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Roghieh Mahdavihaji , Alexandra Duel-Hallen , Hans Hallen

Leveraging higher frequencies up to THz band paves the way towards a faster network in the next generation of wireless communications. However, such shorter wavelengths are susceptible to higher scattering and path loss forcing the link to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Dileepa Marasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Directional radio beams are used in the mm-Wave band to combat the high path loss. The mm-Wave band also suffers from high penetration losses from drywall, wood, glass, concrete, etc., and also the human body. Hence, as a mobile user moves,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Santosh Ganji , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Francisco A. Espinal , P. R. Kumar

This study demonstrates the feasibility of point cloud-based proactive link quality prediction for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. Previous studies have proposed machine learning-based methods to predict received signal strength…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shoki Ohta , Takayuki Nishio , Riichi Kudo , Kahoko Takahashi , Hisashi Nagata

One primary focus of next generation wireless communication networks is the millimeterwave (mmWave) spectrum, typically considered in the 30 GHz to 300 GHz frequency range. Despite their promise of high data rates, mmWaves suffer from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shawon Mitra , Subhojit Sarkar , Sasthi C. Ghosh

We propose to use a liquid time constant (LTC) network to predict the future blockage status of a millimeter wave (mmWave) link using only the received signal power as the input to the system. The LTC network is based on an ordinary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Martin H. Nielsen , Chia-Yi Yeh , Ming Shen , Muriel Médard

Millimeter wave (mmWave) holds promise as a carrier frequency for fifth generation cellular networks. Because mmWave signals are sensitive to blockage, prior models for cellular networks operated in the ultra high frequency (UHF) band do…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Tianyang Bai , Robert W. Heath

In this letter, a cooperative sensing framework based on millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems is proposed to detect tiny motions with a millimeter-level resolution. Particularly, the cooperative sensing framework is facilitated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Chao Yu , Yan Luo , Renqi Chen , Rui Wang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication opens up tens of giga-hertz (GHz) spectrum in the mmWave band for use by next-generation wireless systems, thereby solving the problem of spectrum scarcity. Maintaining connectivity stands out to be a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang , Ying Cui , Yueping Wu

This study demonstrates the feasibility of the proactive received power prediction by leveraging spatiotemporal visual sensing information toward the reliable millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. Since the received power on a mmWave link can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Takayuki Nishio , Hironao Okamoto , Kota Nakashima , Yusuke Koda , Koji Yamamoto , Masahiro Morikura , Yusuke Asai , Ryo Miyatake

The use of extremely high frequency (EHF) or millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has attracted significant attention for the next generation wireless access networks. As demonstrated by recent measurements, mmWave frequencies render themselves…