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Since the spectrum below 6 GHz bands is insufficient to meet the high bandwidth requirements of 5G use cases, 5G networks expand their operation to mmWave bands. However, operation at these bands has to cope with a high penetration loss and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Lotte Weedage , Clara Stegehuis , Suzan Bayhan

The emerging millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with lens antenna arrays, which is also known as "beamspace MIMO", can effectively reduce the required number of power-hungry radio frequency (RF) chains.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Tian Xie , Linglong Dai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this letter, we aim to design a robust hybrid precoder and combiner against beam misalignment in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems. We consider the inclusion of the `error statistics' into the precoder and combiner design,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Chandan Pradhan , Ang Li , Li Zhuo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems rely on highly directional beamforming to overcome severe path loss and ensure robust communication links. However, selecting the optimal beam pair efficiently remains a challenge due to the large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Joseph K. Chege , Arie Yeredor , Martin Haardt

In this paper, we consider uplink channel estimation for massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with partially connected hybrid beamforming (PC-HBF) structures. Existing beam design and channel estimation schemes are usually based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Yufan Zhou , Yongbo Xiao , An Liu

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems will enable gigabit-per-second data rates thanks to the large bandwidth available at mmWave frequencies. To realize sufficient link margin, mmWave systems will employ directional beamforming with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Omar El Ayach , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Predicting the millimeter wave (mmWave) beams and blockages using sub-6GHz channels has the potential of enabling mobility and reliability in scalable mmWave systems. These gains attracted increasing interest in the last few years. Prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication in combination with massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) enables high-bandwidth data transmission to multiple users in the same time-frequency resource. The strong path loss of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza , Ramina Ghods , Christoph Studer

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, a framework of beamspace channel estimation in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO system is proposed. The framework includes the design of hybrid precoding and combining matrix as well as the search method for the largest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Wenyan Ma , Chenhao Qi

This paper proposes a novel neural network architecture, that we call an auto-precoder, and a deep-learning based approach that jointly senses the millimeter wave (mmWave) channel and designs the hybrid precoding matrices with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Xiaofeng Li , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Beam alignment (BA) in modern millimeter wave standards such as 5G NR and WiGig (802.11ay) is based on exhaustive and/or hierarchical beam searches over pre-defined codebooks of wide and narrow beams. This approach is slow and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuqiang Heng , Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The high path loss associated with millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency communication can be compensated by large scale antenna arrays such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The hybrid beamforming architecture which uses fewer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Evangelos Vlachos , Aryan Kaushik , Muhammad Z. Shakir

In time-division duplexing (TDD) millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the reciprocity mismatch severely degrades the performance of the hybrid beamforming (HBF). In this work, to mitigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Li Chen , Rongjiang Nie , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang

Beam alignment is key in enabling millimeter wave and terahertz radios to achieve their capacity. Due to the use of large arrays in these systems, the common exhaustive beam scanning results in a substantial training overhead. Prior work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Hamed Masoumi , Michel Verhaegen , Nitin Jonathan Myers

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems adopt large antenna arrays to ensure adequate receive signal power. However, adjusting the narrow beams of these antenna arrays typically incurs high beam training overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Holographic MIMO (HMIMO) has recently been recognized as a promising enabler for future 6G systems through the use of an ultra-massive number of antennas in a compact space to exploit the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Wentao Yu , Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Ross D. Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

Millimeter-wave is one of the technologies powering the new generation of wireless communication systems. To compensate the high path-loss, millimeter-wave devices need to use highly directional antennas. Consequently, beam misalignment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Steve Blandino , Thibault Bertrand , Claude Desset , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin