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Conventional localization techniques typically assume far-field (FF) propagation characterized by planar wavefronts and simplified spatial relationships. The use of higher carrier frequencies has given rise to the paradigm of extra large…

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Electromagnetic field reconstruction is crucial in many applications, including antenna diagnostics, electromagnetic interference analysis, and system modeling. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach for Far-Field to Near-Field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Sahar Bagherkhani , Jackson Christopher Earls , Franco De Flaviis , Pierre Baldi

Hard visual attention is a promising approach to reduce the computational burden of modern computer vision methodologies. Hard attention mechanisms are typically non-differentiable. They can be trained with reinforcement learning but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 William Harvey , Michael Teng , Frank Wood

In this paper, we propose a quadruple-UPA architecture for realizing the beamforming with wide coverage in terahertz (THz) communication. Considering the severe path loss suffered in the THz wave propagation, the pilot signals of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Zhongbao Tian , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

6G communication will greatly benefit from using extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) and new mid-band spectrums (7-24 GHz). These techniques require a thorough exploration of the challenges and potentials of the associated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Wei Fan , Zhiqiang Yuan , Yejian Lyu , Jianhua Zhang , Gert Pedersen , Jonathan Borrill , Fengchun Zhang

Scaling the number of antennas up is a key characteristic of current and future wireless communication systems. The hardware cost and power consumption, however, motivate large-scale MIMO systems, especially at millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Multicast beamforming is a promising technique for multicast communication. Providing an efficient and powerful beamforming design algorithm is a crucial issue because multicast beamforming problems such as a max-min-fair problem are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Satoshi Takabe , Tadashi Wadayama

In near-field beam focusing for finite-sized arrays, focal shift is a non-negligible issue. The actual focal point often appears closer to the array than the predefined focal distance, significantly degrading the focusing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Jiawang Li , Yingjie Xu , Hanieh Aliakbari

Existing learning methods for LiDAR-based applications use 3D points scanned under a pre-determined beam configuration, e.g., the elevation angles of beams are often evenly distributed. Those fixed configurations are task-agnostic, so…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Niclas Vödisch , Ozan Unal , Ke Li , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To compensate for the high pathloss of mmWave signals, large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ke Ma , Zhaocheng Wang , Wenqiang Tian , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

An active-sensing-based learning algorithm is proposed to solve the near-field beam alignment problem with the aid of wavenumber-domain transform matrices (WTMs). Specifically, WTMs can transform the antenna-domain channel into a sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Beamforming (BF) design for large-scale antenna arrays with limited radio frequency chains and the phase-shifter-based analog BF architecture, has been recognized as a key issue in millimeter wave communication systems. It becomes more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Tian Lin , Yu Zhu

A novel approach combining agile beam switching with deep learning to enhance the speed and accuracy of Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation for millimeter-wave (mmWave) phased array systems with low-complexity hardware implementations is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Arav Sharma , Lei Chi , Ari Gebhardt , Alon S. Levin , Timothy R. Hoerning , Sam Keene

Efficient learning and model compression algorithm for deep neural network (DNN) is a key workhorse behind the rise of deep learning (DL). In this work, we propose a message passing based Bayesian deep learning algorithm called EM-TDAMP to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Wei Xu , An Liu , Yiting Zhang , Vincent Lau

Beam training and prediction in millimeter-wave communications are highly challenging due to fast time-varying channels and sensitivity to blockages and mobility. In this context, infrastructure-mounted cameras can capture rich…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Markku Juntti

The idea of end-to-end learning of communications systems through neural network -based autoencoders has the shortcoming that it requires a differentiable channel model. We present in this paper a novel learning algorithm which alleviates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Fayçal Ait Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis

Most deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods focus on designing a set of beamforming coefficients to directly filter the low signal-to-noise ratio signals received by microphones, which hinders the performance of these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

User equipment (UE) positioning accuracy is of paramount importance in current and future communications standard. However, traditional methods tend to perform poorly in non line of sight (NLoS) scenarios. As a result, deep learning is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Baptiste Chatelier , Vincent Corlay , Cristina Ciochina , Fallou Coly , Julien Guillet

Beamforming (BF) training is crucial to establishing reliable millimeter-wave communication connections between stations (STAs) and an access point. In IEEE 802.11ad BF training protocol, all STAs contend for limited BF training…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Wen Wu , Nan Cheng , Ning Zhang , Peng Yang , Khalid Aldubaikhy , Xuemin , Shen

For millimeter-wave (mmWave) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication systems, we propose an innovative near-field (NF) transmission framework based on dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA) technology. In this framework, a base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Songjie Yang , Yufeng Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Hongyang Du , Ning Wei