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A critical challenge for wireless communications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is blockage. MmWave signals suffer significant penetration losses from many common materials and objects, and small changes in the position of obstacles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Christopher Slezak , Menglei Zhang , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

As the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system is being commercialized, extensive studies on the evolution of 5G and sixth-generation mobile communication systems have been conducted. Future mobile communication systems are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Jie Yang , Jing Xu , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Bo Gao

Due to the large bandwidth available, millimeter-Wave (mmWave) bands are considered a viable opportunity to significantly increase the data rate in cellular and wireless networks. Nevertheless, the need for beamforming and directional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-23 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaeiy , Jens Zander , Marina Petrova

Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate the severe path loss in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications by adopting large antenna arrays and formulating narrow beams to obtain satisfactory received powers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Hua Fang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications systems are promising candidate to support extremely high data rate services in future wireless networks. MmWave communications exhibit high penetration loss (blockage) and require directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Roberto Congiu , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Fortunato Santucci

Millimeter Wave (MmWave) communication is one of the key technology of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems to achieve the expected 1000x data rate. With large bandwidth at mmWave band, the link capacity between users and base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Mingjie Feng , Shiwen Mao

Future railway is expected to accommodate both train operation services and passenger broadband services. The millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology in providing multi-gigabit data rates to onboard users. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Meilin Gao , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Wen Wu , Peng Yang , Feng Lyu , Xuemin , Shen

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Ailton Oliveira , Amir Khatibi , Daniel Suzuki , Ilan Correa , José Rezende , Aldebaro Klautau

RF sensing exploits phase-sensitive measurements of stray electromagnetic (EM) fields from wireless devices across various frequency bands to detect EM blockage and to reconstruct and map the surrounding environment in 2D/3D. Although…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Stefano Savazzi , Fabio Paonessa , Sanaz Kianoush , Alessandro Nordio , Giuseppe Virone

The vast amount of spectrum available for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication systems will support accurate real-time positioning concurrent with communication signaling. This paper demonstrates that accurate estimates of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport

Millimeter wave communication systems can leverage information from sensors to reduce the overhead associated with link configuration. LIDAR (light detection and ranging) is one sensor widely used in autonomous driving for high resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Aldebaro Klautau , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

Location information offered by external positioning systems, e.g., satellite navigation, can be used as prior information in the process of beam alignment and channel parameter estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Markku Juntti

With the overcrowded sub-6 GHz bands, millimeter wave (mmWave) bands offer a promising alternative for the next generation wireless standard, i.e., 5G. However, the susceptibility of mmWave signals to severe pathloss and shadowing requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-13 Solmaz Niknam , Balasubramaniam Natarajan , Reza Barazideh

mm-Wave communication employs directional beams to overcome high path loss. High data rate communication is typically along line-of-sight (LoS). In outdoor environments, such communication is susceptible to temporary blockage by pedestrians…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Santosh Ganji , Romil Sonigra , P. R. Kumar

Ground-to-air (GA) communication using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has gained popularity in recent years and is expected to be part of 5G networks and beyond. However, the GA links are susceptible to frequent blockages at millimeter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Wahab Khawaja , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology is expected to be a major component of 5G wireless networks. Ultra-wide bandwidths of mmWave signals and the possibility of utilizing large number of antennas at the transmitter and the receiver allow…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Macey Ruble , Dr. Ismail Guvenc

For decades, the determination of an objects location has been implemented utilizing different technologies. Despite GPS (Global Positioning System) provides a scalable efficient and cost effective location services however the satellite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Nazim Choudhury

In this paper, we develop an algorithm for joint handover and beam tracking in millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. The aim is to provide a reliable connection in terms of the achieved throughput along the trajectory of the mobile user while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Jens Zander , Marina Petrova

Beam alignment is a critical bottleneck in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication. An ideal beam alignment technique should achieve high beamforming (BF) gain with low latency, scale well to systems with higher carrier frequencies, larger…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yuqiang Heng , Jeffrey G. Andrews

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