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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS mainly consider its passive beamforming design and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large antenna arrays is a promising technique to enable extremely high data rates due to the large available bandwidth in mmWave frequency bands. In addition, given the knowledge of an optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Sung-En Chiu , Nancy Ronquillo , Tara Javidi

In this paper, we present a novel active beam learning method for in-band full-duplex wireless systems, that aims to design transmit and receive beams which suppress self-interference and maximize the sum spectral efficiency. Rather than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Jeong Min Kong , Ian P. Roberts

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technique to alleviate the spectrum congestion problem. Inspired by the applications of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in dynamically manipulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

Directional transmission patterns (a.k.a. narrow beams) are the key to wireless communications in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands which suffer from high path loss and severe shadowing. In addition, the propagation channel in mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Abbas Khalili , Shahram Shahsavari , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Elza Erkip

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for future cellular networks. Specifically, due to its capability in reshaping the propagation environment, RIS was introduced to address the blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Weizheng Zhang , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li , Wei Zhang

Synchrotron radiation sources play a crucial role in fields such as materials science, biology, and chemistry. The beamline, a key subsystem of the synchrotron, modulates and directs the radiation to the sample for analysis. However, the…

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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems require large antenna arrays and use narrow directive beams to ensure sufficient receive signal power. However, selecting the optimal beams for these large antenna arrays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Multibeam technology enables the use of two or more subbeams for joint communication and radio sensing, to meet different requirements of beamwidth and pointing directions. Generating and optimizing multibeam subject to the requirements is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Yuyue Luo , J. Andrew Zhang , Xiaojing Huang , Wei Ni , Jin Pan

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser communication system, where an IRS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LoS) links between an access point (AP) and multiple users. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Millimeter-wave will be a key technology in next-generation wireless networks thanks to abundant bandwidth availability. However, the use of large antenna arrays with beamforming demands precise beam-alignment between transmitter and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Muddassar Hussain , Nicolo Michelusi

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

Communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is expected to become a key ingredient of next generation (5G) wireless networks. Effective mmWave communications require fast and reliable methods for beamforming at both the User Equipment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Terahertz (THz) communications, with their substantial bandwidth, are essential for meeting the ultra-high data rate demands of emerging high-mobility scenarios such as vehicular-to-everything (V2X) networks. In these contexts, beamwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Wuhan Chen , Yuheng Fan , Chuang Yang , Mugen Peng

This paper addresses an uplink localization problem in which a base station (BS) aims to locate a remote user with the help of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We propose a strategy in which the user transmits pilots sequentially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhongze Zhang , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

TianQin is a proposed space-based gravitational wave detector mission that employs inter-satellite laser interferometry. Suppressing measurement noise and achieving high sensitivity require accurate alignment of multiple onboard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Dezhi Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Hui-Zong Duan

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as an effective technique to resist the double-fading attenuation of passive RIS. By embedding with power harvesting function, it further evolves to zero-power active RIS, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiao Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Zhuohui Yao , Jiangzhou Wang

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

Terahertz (THz) communications open a new frontier for the wireless network thanks to their dramatically wider available bandwidth compared to the current micro-wave and forthcoming millimeter-wave communications. However, due to the short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Wenrong Chen , Yiming Du , Jun Fang