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There has been a growing interest in the commercialization of millimeter wave (mmW) technology as a part of the Fifth-Generation New Radio (5G-NR) wireless standardization efforts. In this direction, many sets of independent measurement…

In millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicular communications, multi-hop relay disconnection by line-of-sight (LOS) blockage is a critical problem, especially in the early diffusion phase of mmWave-available vehicles, where not all the vehicles have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Akihito Taya , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura , Koji Yamamoto

We propose a deep learning-based method that uses spatial and temporal information extracted from the sub-6GHz band to predict/track beams in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. In more detail, we consider a dual-band communication system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

The commercial availability of low-cost millimeter wave (mmWave) communication and radar devices is starting to improve the penetration of such technologies in consumer markets, paving the way for large-scale and dense deployments in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Anish Shastri , Neharika Valecha , Enver Bashirov , Harsh Tataria , Michael Lentmaier , Fredrik Tufvesson , Michele Rossi , Paolo Casari

In this paper, a cooperative passive sensing framework for millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems is proposed and demonstrated in a scenario with one mobile signal blocker. Specifically, in the uplink communication with at least two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Chao Yu , Bojie Lv , Haoyu Qiu , Rui Wang

Simultaneous use of high-end wearable wireless devices like smart glasses is challenging in a dense indoor environment due to the high nature of interference. In this scenario, the millimeter wave (mmWave) band offers promising potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter-wave communication faces two critical challenges: propagation losses requiring costly narrow-beam alignment, and penetration losses causing link failures from blocked line-of-sight paths. We address propagation loss through a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Sachira Karunasena , Erfan Khordad , Tom Drummond , Rajitha Senanayake

A significant portion of the 5th generation of wireless networks will operate in the mm-wave bands. One of the several challenges associated with mm-wave propagation is to overcome shadowing due to signal blockage caused by environmental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Swapnil Mhaske , Predrag Spasojevic , Ahsan Aziz

We propose to use a liquid time constant (LTC) network to predict the future blockage status of a millimeter wave (mmWave) link using only the received signal power as the input to the system. The LTC network is based on an ordinary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Martin H. Nielsen , Chia-Yi Yeh , Ming Shen , Muriel Médard

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

The sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) channels in the angular and temporal domains is beneficial to channel estimation, while the associated channel parameters can be utilized for localization. However, line-of-sight (LoS) blockage poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Kunlun Li , Jiguang He , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lie-Liang Yang

In the millimeter waves (mmWave) bands considered for 5G and beyond, the use of very high frequencies results in the interruption of communication whenever there is no line of sight between the transmitter and the receiver. Blockages have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Cristian García Ruiz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz-Medina

The 5G New Radio (NR) standard for wireless communications supports the millimetre-wave (mmWave) spectrum to yield unprecedented improvement of the access network capacity. However, intermittent blockages in the mmWave signal may degrade…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Fadhil Firyaguna , Jacek Kibilda , Nicola Marchetti

Increasing attention is being paid to millimeter-wave (mmWave), 30 GHz to 300 GHz, and terahertz (THz), 300 GHz to 10 THz, sensing applications including security sensing, industrial packaging, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Josiah Smith

Next generation communication systems require accurate beam alignment to counteract the impairments that characterize propagation in high-frequency bands. The overhead of the pilot sequences required to select the best beam pair is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Tien Ngoc Ha , Daniel Romero , Roberto López-Valcarce

This paper develops a stochastic geometry-based approach for the modeling and analysis of finite millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless networks where a random number of transmitters and receivers are randomly located inside a finite region. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Behrooz Makki , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Tommy Svensson

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) is a key enabler for next-generation transportation systems. However, in an urban city scenario, mmWave is highly susceptible to blockages and shadowing. Therefore, base station (BS) placement is a crucial task in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Jukka Talvitie , Miguel López-Benítez , Hamed Ahmadi , Laura Ruotsalainen

Employing large antenna arrays is a key characteristic of millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz communication systems. Due to the hardware constraints and the lack of channel knowledge, codebook based beamforming/combining is normally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Yu Zhang , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In this paper, a new mathematical framework to the analysis of millimeter wave cellular networks is introduced. Its peculiarity lies in considering realistic path-loss and blockage models, which are derived from experimental data recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Di Renzo

Millimeter-wave systems are characterized by the use of highly directional antennas and the presence of blockages, which significantly alter the path-loss and small-scale fading parameters. The received power of each interferer depends on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti , Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath,