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The modern information networks are built on hybrid systems working at disparate optical wavelengths. Coherent interconnects for converting photons between different wavelengths are highly desired. Although coherent interconnects have…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xiang Xi , Chang-Ling Zou , Chun-Hua Dong , Xiankai Sun

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

We use metasurfaces to enable acoustic orbital angular momentum (a-OAM) based multiplexing in real-time, postprocess-free and sensor-scanning-free fashions to improve the bandwidth of acoustic communication, with intrinsic compatibility and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Xue Jiang , Bin Liang , Jian-chun Cheng , Cheng-Wei Qiu

The millimeter-wave (mmW) communications is a key enabling technology in 5G to provide ultra-high throughput. Current mmW technologies rely on analog phased arrays to realize beamforming gain and overcome high path loss. However, due to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Ruifu Li , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

Efficient beam alignment is fundamental to high-throughput and reliable connectivity in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) systems. However, conventional beam management in dynamic vehicular topologies incurs prohibitive alignment overhead and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Jiahui Liang , Shuoyao Wang , Shijian Gao

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) require ultra-low end-to-end delays and multi-gigabit-per-second data transmission. Millimetre Waves (mmWaves) communications can fulfil these requirements. However, the increased mobility of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ioannis Mavromatis , Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki , Andrew Nix

The main focus of beam alignment is to find the optimal beam which yields the largest received signal strength (RSS) with faster speed.In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient beam alignment scheme with our testbed. The algorithm we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Junyeol Hong , Hyeonjin Chung , Sunwoo Kim

Beamforming techniques utilized either at the transmitter or the receiver terminals have achieved superior quality-of-service performances from both the multi-antenna wireless communications systems, communications intelligence and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 M. Yaser Yağan , Ahmet F. Coşkun , Ali E. Pusane

In this paper, we propose an adaptive beam that adapts its divergence angle according to the receiver aperture diameter and the communication distance to improve the received power and ease the alignment between the communicating optical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-01 Yagiz Kaymak , Sina Fathi-Kazerooni , Roberto Rojas-Cessa , JiangHua Feng , Nirwan Ansari , MengChu Zhou , Tairan Zhang

The synchrotron light source, a cutting-edge large-scale user facility, requires autonomous synchrotron beamline operations, a crucial technique that should enable experiments to be conducted automatically, reliably, and safely with minimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Baolu Li , Hongkai Yu , Huiming Sun , Jin Ma , Yuewei Lin , Lu Ma , Yonghua Du

The Terahertz band holds a promise to enable both super-accurate sensing and ultra-fast communication. However, challenges arise that severe Doppler effects call for a waveform with high Doppler robustness while severe propagation path loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Meilin Li , Chong Han , Shi Jin

In millimeter wave cellular communication, fast and reliable beam alignment via beam training is crucial to harvest sufficient beamforming gain for the subsequent data transmission. In this paper, we establish fundamental limits in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Chunshan Liu , Min Li , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

Precise sensing and control of spatial mode content is essential for the performance of precision optical systems, particularly interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, where misalignment and mode mismatch can lead to significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Liu Tao , Eleonora Capocasa , Yuhang Zhao , Jacques Ding , Isander Ahrend , Matteo Barsuglia

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Fast and precise beam alignment is crucial for high-quality data transmission in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, where large-scale antenna arrays are utilized to overcome the severe propagation loss. To tackle the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Junyi Yang , Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications incur a high beam alignment cost in mobile scenarios such as vehicular networks. Therefore, an efficient beam alignment mechanism is required to mitigate the resulting overhead. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Nicolo Michelusi , Muddassar Hussain

Expanding the use of physical degrees of freedom to employ spatial multiplexing of data in optical communication is considered the most disruptive and effective solution to meet the capacity demand of the growing information traffic.…

Being able to dynamically control the transmitted-beam divergence can bring important advantages in free-space optical communications. Specifically, this technique can help to optimize the overall communications performance when the optimum…

Communication in high frequencies such as millimeter wave and terahertz suffer from high path-loss and intense shadowing which necessitates beamforming for reliable data transmission. On the other hand, at high frequencies the channels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Abbas Khalili , Sundeep Rangan , Elza Erkip

Although Terahertz communication systems can provide high data rates, it needs high directional beamforming at transmitters and receivers to achieve such rates over a long distance. Therefore, an efficient beam training method is vital to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Songjie Yang , Zhongpei Zhang , Zhenzhen Hu , Nuan Song , Hao Liu