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With the advent of extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO), mmWave/THz bands and ultra-wideband transmission, future 6G systems demand real-time positioning with centimeter or even millimeter level accuracy. This paper addresses the pronounced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Aibiao Zhang , Weizheng Zhang , Chiya Zhang

Meeting the high data rate demands of modern applications necessitates the utilization of high-frequency spectrum bands, including millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz bands. However, these frequencies require precise alignment of narrow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Sachira Karunasena , Erfan Khordad , Thomas Drummond , Rajitha Senanayake

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

Three-dimensional (3D) spot beamfocusing (SBF), in contrast to conventional angular-domain beamforming, concentrates radiating power within a very small volume in both radial and angular domains in the near-field zone. Recently the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Mohammad Amir Fallah , Mehdi Monemi , Mehdi Rasti , Matti Latva-Aho

Computing the Sparse Fast Fourier Transform(sFFT) of a K-sparse signal of size N has emerged as a critical topic for a long time. The sFFT algorithms decrease the runtime and sampling complexity by taking advantage of the signal inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Bin Li , Zhikang Jiang , Jie Chen

Wideband millimeter-wave and terahertz (THz) systems can facilitate simultaneous data communication with multiple spatially separated users. It is desirable to orthogonalize users across sub-bands by deploying frequency-dependent beams with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Aditya Wadaskar , Ding Zhao , Ibrahim Pehlivan , Danijela Cabric

Modern millimeter wave (mmWave) transceivers come with a large number of antennas, each of which can support thousands of phase shifter configurations. This capability enables beam sweeping with fine angular resolution, but results in large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bora Bozkurt , Hasan Atalay Gunel , Mohaned Chraiti , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin , Ali Ghrayeb

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

Next-generation wireless networks will rely on mmWave/sub-THz spectrum and extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs). This will push their operation into the near field where far-field beam management degrades and beam training becomes more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zijun Wang , Anjali Omer , Jacob Chakareski , Nicholas Mastronarde , Rui Zhang

Fluid antenna systems encompass a broad class of reconfigurable antenna technologies that offer substantial spatial diversity for various optimization objectives and communication tasks. Their capability to enhance spatial resolution within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingyuan Xu , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

With the increasing development of Internet of Things (IoT), the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless network is required to support grant-free random access of a massive number of sporadic traffic devices. In particular, at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Yiyang Qiang , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

We propose RSFT, which is an extension of the one dimensional Sparse Fourier Transform algorithm to higher dimensions in a way that it can be applied to real, noisy data. The RSFT allows for off-grid frequencies. Furthermore, by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Shaogang Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Athina Petropulu

Phased arrays, commonly used in IEEE 802.11ad and 5G radios, are capable of focusing radio frequency signals in a specific direction or a spatial region. Beamforming achieves such directional or spatial concentration of signals and enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Robert W. Heath

Efficient sampling from un-normalized target distributions is pivotal in scientific computing and machine learning. While neural samplers have demonstrated potential with a special emphasis on sampling efficiency, existing neural implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weijian Luo , Wei Deng

Phase-time arrays, which integrate phase shifters (PSs) and true-time delays (TTDs), have emerged as a cost-effective architecture for generating frequency-dependent rainbow beams in wideband sensing and localization. This paper proposes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yeyue Cai , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

The upper 6 GHz (U6G) band with XL-MIMO is a key enabler for sixth-generation wireless systems, yet intelligent radiomap prediction for such systems remains challenging. Existing datasets support only small-scale arrays (up to 8x8) with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Xiaojie Li , Yu Han , Zhizheng Lu , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen

Extremely large-scale multiple input multiple output (XL-MIMO), a key technology for 6G communications, faces challenges in near-field channel estimation due to spherical wavefronts and the need for three-dimensional (3D) spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chenliang Yang , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng

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

This paper introduces a method based on a deep neural network (DNN) that is perfectly capable of processing radar data from extremely thinned radar apertures. The proposed DNN processing can provide both aliasing-free radar imaging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Christian Schuessler , Marcel Hoffmann , Martin Vossiek