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Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate severe path losses in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. In particular, these techniques adopt large antenna arrays and formulate narrow beams to obtain…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications require beamforming to acquire adequate receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To find the optimal beam, current beam management solutions perform beam training over a large number…
Several studies have explored deep learning algorithms to predict large-scale signal fading, or path loss, in urban communication networks. The goal is to replace costly measurement campaigns, inaccurate statistical models, or…
High-frequency bands such as millimeter-wave and terahertz require narrow beams due to path loss and shadowing. Beam alignment (BA) methods allow the transceivers to adjust the directions of these beams efficiently by exploiting the channel…
Channel knowledge map (CKM) emerges as a promising framework to acquire location-specific channel information without consuming wireless resources, creating new horizons for advanced wireless network design and optimization. Despite its…
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…
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…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems use directional beams to support high-rate data communications. Small misalignment between the transmit and receive beams (e.g., due to the mobility) can result in significant drop of the received signal…
Millimeter wave communications are essential for modern wireless networks. It supports high data rates but suffers from severe path loss, which requires precise beam alignment to maintain reliable links. This beam management is particularly…
Accurate and fast beam-alignment is essential to cope with the fast-varying environment in millimeter-wave communications. A data-driven approach is a promising solution to reduce the training overhead by leveraging side information and…
Millimeter-wave communication has the potential to deliver orders of magnitude increases in mobile data rates. A key design challenge is to enable rapid beam alignment with phased arrays. Traditional millimeter-wave systems require a high…
Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To compensate for the high pathloss of mmWave signals, large-scale…
In this paper, we study a navigation problem where a mobile robot needs to locate a mmWave wireless signal. Using the directionality properties of the signal, we propose an estimation and path planning algorithm that can efficiently…
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…
Accurately aligning millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) narrow beams is essential to satisfy reliability and high data rates of 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. However, achieving this objective is difficult,…
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…
In wireless communication systems, mmWave beam tracking is a critical task that affects both sensing and communications, as it is related to the knowledge of the wireless channel. We consider a setup in which a Base Station (BS) needs to…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to cope with the exponential increase in 5G data traffic. Such networks typically require a very dense deployment of base stations. A subset of those, so-called macro base…
The use of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum for commercial wireless communications is expected to offer data rates in the order of Gigabits-per-second, thus able to support future applications such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle or…
Channel charting builds a map of the radio environment in an unsupervised way. The obtained chart locations can be seen as low-dimensional compressed versions of channel state information that can be used for a wide variety of applications,…