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Guided wireless technology is an innovative approach that combines the strengths of guided waves and wireless communication. In traditional wireless systems, signals propagate through the air, where they are vulnerable to interference,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohamed Akrout , Amine Mezghani , Faouzi Bellili , Robert W. Heath

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers promising potential to enhance wireless communication by allowing flexible antenna movement. To maximize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), larger movable regions are required, which may render the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising solution to overcome the challenges of high path loss and easy signal blockage in millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems. With the increase of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Qiumo Yu , Linglong Dai

In the advent of next-generation wireless communication, millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) technologies are pivotal for their high data rate capabilities. However, their reliance on large antenna arrays and narrow directive beams…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter-wave is one of the technologies powering the new generation of wireless communication systems. To compensate the high path-loss, millimeter-wave devices need to use highly directional antennas. Consequently, beam misalignment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Steve Blandino , Thibault Bertrand , Claude Desset , Andre Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been regarded as a key technology for 6G wireless communications, in which large-scale multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) array with higher and wider frequency bands will be adopted.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Hongliang Luo , Feifei Gao , Wanmai Yuan , Shun Zhang

Employing large antenna arrays and utilizing large bandwidth have the potential of bringing very high data rates to future wireless communication systems. However, this brings the system into the near-field regime and also makes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

With the advent of extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO), mmWave/THz bands and ultra-wideband transmission, future 6G systems demand real-time positioning with centimeter or even millimeter level accuracy. This paper addresses the pronounced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Aibiao Zhang , Weizheng Zhang , Chiya Zhang

With explosively increasing demands for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, reliable link acquisition for serving UAVs is required. Considering the dynamic characteristics of UAV, it is hugely challenging to persist a reliable link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Ha-Lim Song , Young-Chai Ko

Recently, there has been considerable interest in new tiered network cellular architectures, which would likely use many more cell sites than found today. Two major challenges will be i) providing backhaul to all of these cells and ii)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sooyoung Hur , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , Timothy A. Thomas , Amitava Ghosh

The spherical nature of the wavefronts exhibited in the near-field of antenna arrays enables advanced beamforming capabilities, such as beampointing and beamnulling. In this paper, we exploit these properties to design a near-field beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Laurence Defraigne , Gilles Monnoyer , Jérôme Louveaux , Luc Vandendorpe

The convergence of eXtremely Large (XL) antenna arrays and high-frequency bands in future wireless networks will inevitably give rise to near-field communications, localization, and sensing. Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) have emerged…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) holds great promise for the fifth-generation (5G) and future communication systems. In near-field scenarios, the spherical wavefront model is commonly utilized to accurately depict the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Hao Jiang , Wangqi Shi , Xiao Chen , Qiuming Zhu , Zhen Chen

Distributed transmit beamforming enables cooperative radios to act as one virtual antenna array, extending their communications' range beyond the capabilities of a single radio. Most existing distributed beamforming approaches rely on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

In this paper, we propose an efficient beam tracking method for mobility scenario in mmWave-band communications. When the position of the mobile changes in mobility scenario, the base-station needs to perform beam training frequently to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jisu Bae , Sun Hong Lim , Jin Hyeok Yoo , Jun Won Choi

Sensing-assisted predictive beamforming, as one of the enabling technologies for emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm, shows significant promise for enhancing various future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Hongxun Hui , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We consider the problem of active and sequential beam tracking at mmWave frequencies and above. We focus on the dynamic scenario of a UAV to UAV communications where we formulate the problem to be equivalent to tracking an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Nancy Ronquillo , Tara Javidi

Most existing beamforming methods are frequency-domain methods, and are designed for enhancing a farfield target source over a narrow frequency band. They have found diverse applications and are still under active development. However, they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Fei Ma , Thushara D. Abhayapala , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication, utilizing beamforming techniques to address the inherent path loss limitation, is considered as one of the key technologies to support ever increasing high throughput and low latency demands of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

Accurate beam alignment is a critical challenge in XL-MIMO systems, especially in the near-field regime, where conventional far-field assumptions no longer hold. Although 2D grid-based codebooks in the polar domain are widely accepted for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Hongjun Heo , Wan Choi
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