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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology is increasingly recognized as a pivotal technology of the sixth-generation communication networks due to the large amounts of available spectrum at high frequencies. However, the huge overhead associated…

The bandit paradigm provides a unified modeling framework for problems that require decision-making under uncertainty. Because many business metrics can be viewed as rewards (a.k.a. utilities) that result from actions, bandit algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Bram van den Akker , Olivier Jeunen , Ying Li , Ben London , Zahra Nazari , Devesh Parekh

Visual information, captured for example by cameras, can effectively reflect the sizes and locations of the environmental scattering objects, and thereby can be used to infer communications parameters like propagation directions, receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Weihua Xu , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Enabling highly-mobile millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) wireless communication applications requires overcoming the critical challenges associated with the large antenna arrays deployed at these systems. In particular, adjusting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Gouranga Charan , Tawfik Osman , Andrew Hredzak , Ngwe Thawdar , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output systems employ highly directional beamforming to overcome severe path loss, and their performance critically depends on accurate beam alignment. Conventional codebook-based methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Hengtao He , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems typically deploy large antenna arrays to guarantee sufficient receive signal power. The beam training overhead associated with these arrays, however, make it hard for these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Gouranga Charan , Andrew Hredzak , Christian Stoddard , Benjamin Berrey , Madhav Seth , Hector Nunez , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Motivated by models of human decision making proposed to explain commonly observed deviations from conventional expected value preferences, we formulate two stochastic multi-armed bandit problems with distorted probabilities on the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Ravi Kumar Kolla , Prashanth L. A. , Aditya Gopalan , Krishna Jagannathan , Michael Fu , Steve Marcus

This letter proposes a linear bandit-based beam training framework for near-field communication under multi-path channels. By leveraging Thompson Sampling (TS), the framework adaptively balances exploration and exploitation to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Junchi Liu , Zijun Wang , Rui Zhang

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

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an attractive candidate for high-speed mobile communications in the future. However, due to the propagation characteristics of mmWave, beam and and and and alignment becomes a key challenge for serving users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yu Liu , Jiahui Li , Yin Sun , Shidong Zhou

Accurate and fast beam-alignment is essential to cope with the fast-varying environment in millimeter-wave communications. A data-driven approach is a promising solution to reduce the training overhead by leveraging side information and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Tzu-Hsuan Chou , Nicolo Michelusi , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier

In this paper, channel estimation for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is considered. In the mmWave band, the number of propagation paths is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 In-soo Kim , Junil Choi

Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) communications. However, due to mobility and other imperfections in the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret , Henk Wymeersch

We consider the problem of spatial signal design for multipath-assisted mmWave positioning under limited prior knowledge on the user's location and clock bias. We propose an optimal robust design and, based on the low-dimensional precoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Musa Furkan Keskin , Fan Jiang , Florent Munier , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

We propose an extensible deep learning method that uses reinforcement learning to train neural networks for offline ranking in information retrieval (IR). We call our method BanditRank as it treats ranking as a contextual bandit problem. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Phanideep Gampa , Sumio Fujita

In this paper, we focus on the phenomenon of beam misalignment in Millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-receiver communication systems, and propose robust hybrid precoding designs that alleviate the performance loss caused by this effect. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Chandan Pradhan , Ang Li , Li Zhuo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Most bandit policies are designed to either minimize regret in any problem instance, making very few assumptions about the underlying environment, or in a Bayesian sense, assuming a prior distribution over environment parameters. The former…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Branislav Kveton , Martin Mladenov , Chih-Wei Hsu , Manzil Zaheer , Csaba Szepesvari , Craig Boutilier

We consider the problem of allocating radio channels to links in a wireless network. Links interact through interference, modelled as a conflict graph (i.e., two interfering links cannot be simultaneously active on the same channel). We aim…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Marc Lelarge , Alexandre Proutiere , M. Sadegh Talebi

Supporting high mobility in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems enables a wide range of important applications such as vehicular communications and wireless virtual/augmented reality. Realizing this in practice, though, requires overcoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Sam Alex , Paul Varkey , Ying Li , Qi Qu , Djordje Tujkovic

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