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In recent years, machine learning techniques have been explored to support, enhance or augment wireless systems especially at the physical layer of the protocol stack. Traditional ML based approach or optimization is often not suitable due…

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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

Fast and precise beam alignment is crucial for high-quality data transmission in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, where large-scale antenna arrays are utilized to overcome the severe propagation loss. To tackle the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Junyi Yang , Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems adopt large antenna arrays to ensure adequate receive signal power. However, adjusting the narrow beams of these antenna arrays typically incurs high beam training overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, in order to overcome the limitation of the conventional channel state information (CSI) acquisition techniques, this paper proposes a location…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhe Xing , Rui Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Wu

In this paper, a data-driven position-aided approach is proposed to reduce the training overhead in MIMO systems, by leveraging side information and on-the-field measurements. A data tensor is constructed by collecting beam-training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Tzu-Hsuan Chou , Nicolo Michelusi , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier

Next generation communication systems require accurate beam alignment to counteract the impairments that characterize propagation in high-frequency bands. The overhead of the pilot sequences required to select the best beam pair is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Tien Ngoc Ha , Daniel Romero , Roberto López-Valcarce

Beamforming is a signal processing technique where an array of antenna elements can be steered to transmit and receive radio signals in a specific direction. The usage of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies and multiple input multiple…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Snehal Bhayani , Praneeth Susarla , S. S. Krishna Chaitanya Bulusu , Olli Silven , Markku Juntti , Janne Heikkila

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) has emerged as a key enabler for sixth generation (6G) wireless systems by jointly supporting data transmission and environmental awareness within a unified framework. However, communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Ahmet Yazar , Yusuf Islam Demir , Ahmed Naeem , Seyit Karatepe

Beam alignment is required in millimeter wave communication to ensure high data rate transmission. However, with narrow beamwidth in massive MIMO, beam alignment could be computationally intensive due to the large number of beam pairs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Orikumhi Igbafe , Jeongwan Kang , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

Beam alignment (BA) in modern millimeter wave standards such as 5G NR and WiGig (802.11ay) is based on exhaustive and/or hierarchical beam searches over pre-defined codebooks of wide and narrow beams. This approach is slow and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuqiang Heng , Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Large-scale transformer models have emerged as a powerful tool for semantic communication systems, enabling edge devices to extract rich representations for robust inference across noisy wireless channels. However, their substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Hatem Abou-Zeid , Mehdi Bennis

Fast and precise beam alignment is crucial to support high-quality data transmission in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning based hierarchical beam alignment method that learns two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Junyi Yang , Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao

In this paper, we propose an adaptive proximal inexact gradient (APIG) framework for solving a class of nonsmooth composite optimization problems involving function and gradient errors. Unlike existing inexact proximal gradient methods, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xilai Fan , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

Airborne mobile Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) base stations have garnered significant attention recently, with ISAC technology being a crucial application for 6G networks. Since ISAC can sense potential mobile communication…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shengcai Zhou , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Kai Kit Wong , Dapeng Oliver Wu , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

As millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO systems adopt larger antenna arrays, near-field propagation becomes increasingly prominent, especially for users close to the transmitter. Traditional far-field beam training methods become inadequate, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weicao Deng , Binpu Shi , Min Li , Osvaldo Simeone

Millimeter Waves (mmW) and sub-THz frequencies are the candidate bands for the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) of communication systems. The use of collimated beams at mmW/sub-THz to compensate for the increased path and penetration loss…

Reconfigurable antenna multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a foundational technology for the continuing evolution of cellular systems, including upcoming 6G communication systems. In this paper, we address the problem of…

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