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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

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) enable high spatial resolution and multiplexing, especially for user equipments (UEs) in the radiative near-field. To reduce hardware cost, modular ELAA architectures with distributed baseband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

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

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

Codebook-based beam selection is one approach for configuring millimeter wave communication links. The overhead required to reconfigure the transmit and receive beam pair, though, increases in highly dynamic vehicular communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Ibrahim Kilinc , Ryan M. Dreifuerst , Junghoon Kim , Robert W. Heath

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we study efficient beam coverage design for multi-antenna systems in both far-field and near-field cases. To reduce the computational complexity of existing sampling-based optimization methods, we propose a new low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Li Chen , Yi Gong , Chengwen Xing

In this work, we begin to investigate the possibility of training a deep neural network on the task of binary code understanding. Specifically, the network would take, as input, features derived directly from binaries and output English…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Interrante-Grant , Andy Davis , Heather Preslier , Tim Leek

Near-field propagation in extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) enlarges the beam training (BT) search space by introducing an additional range dimension, which makes conventional codebook-based beam sweeping prohibitively expensive under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Xinyang Li , Songjie Yang , Xiang Ling , Jianhui Song , Yibo Wang , Hua Chen

Deep learning provides powerful means to learn from spectrum data and solve complex tasks in 5G and beyond such as beam selection for initial access (IA) in mmWave communications. To establish the IA between the base station (e.g., gNodeB)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

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

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high carrier frequencies in future wireless systems gives rise to near-field communications, where the curvature of spherical wavefronts renders traditional far-field beamforming models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam training technique for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. When some mobile users are under high mobility, the beam training should be performed frequently to ensure the accurate acquisition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Sun Hong Lim , Jisu Bae , Sunwoo Kim , Byonghyo Shim , Jun Won Choi

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

This paper investigates a learning solution for robust beamforming optimization in downlink multi-user systems. A base station (BS) identifies efficient multi-antenna transmission strategies only with imperfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Junbeom Kim , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

A novel near-field transmission framework is proposed for dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA)-enabled non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. The base station (BS) exploits the hybrid beamforming to communicate with multiple near…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Dong In Kim

To enable intelligent beam training, a large language model (LLM)-enabled beam training framework is proposed for the pinching antenna system (PASS) in downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. A novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

Interleaved training has been studied for single-user and multi-user massive MIMO downlink with either fully-digital or hybrid beamforming. However, the impact of channel correlation on its average training overhead is rarely addressed. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Cheng Zhang , Chang Liu , Yindi Jing , Minjie Ding , Yongming Huang

In extremely large-scale multiple input multiple output (XL-MIMO) systems for future sixth-generation (6G) communications, codebook-based beam training stands out as a promising technology to acquire channel state information (CSI). Despite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tianyue Zheng , Jieao Zhu , Qiumo Yu , Yongli Yan , Linglong Dai

The best beam steering directions are estimated through beam training, which is one of the most important and challenging tasks in millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz communications. Novel array architectures and signal processing techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Veljko Boljanovic , Han Yan , Chung-Ching Lin , Soumen Mohapatra , Deukhyoun Heo , Subhanshu Gupta , Danijela Cabric