Search Results for author: Robert W. Heath Jr

Found 26 papers, 1 papers with code

Beam Training in mmWave Vehicular Systems: Machine Learning for Decoupling Beam Selection

no code implementations16 Apr 2024 Ibrahim Kilinc, Ryan M. Dreifuerst, JungHoon Kim, Robert W. Heath Jr

Codebook-based beam selection is one approach for configuring millimeter wave communication links.

Neural Codebook Design for Network Beam Management

no code implementations5 Mar 2024 Ryan M. Dreifuerst, Robert W. Heath Jr

Obtaining accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) is a fundamental challenge for large antenna systems.

Management

Hierarchical ML Codebook Design for Extreme MIMO Beam Management

no code implementations24 Nov 2023 Ryan M. Dreifuerst, Robert W. Heath Jr

Beam management is a strategy to unify beamforming and channel state information (CSI) acquisition with large antenna arrays in 5G.

Management

Electromagnetic manifold characterization of antenna arrays

no code implementations8 Nov 2023 Miguel R. Castellanos, Robert W. Heath Jr

Antenna behaviors such as mutual coupling, near-field propagation, and polarization cannot be neglected in signal and channel models for wireless communication.

Sparse RF Lens Antenna Array Design for AoA Estimation in Wideband Systems: Placement Optimization and Performance Analysis

no code implementations29 Jun 2023 Joo-Hyun Jo, Jae-Nam Shim, Chan-Byoung Chae, Dong Ku Kim, Robert W. Heath Jr

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for a lens antenna array (LAA) designed to work with a small number of antennas and enable angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation for advanced 5G vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases that demand wider bandwidths and higher data rates.

Hierarchical Codebook Design with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for Energy-Efficient Arrays

no code implementations15 May 2023 Joseph Carlson, Miguel R. Castellanos, Robert W. Heath Jr

While the DMA provides lower spectral efficiency results than the active phased array, the DMA achieves a higher energy efficiency because of the significant power consumption for the active phase shifters.

ML Codebook Design for Initial Access and CSI Type-II Feedback in Sub-6GHz 5G NR

no code implementations6 Mar 2023 Ryan M. Dreifuerst, Robert W. Heath Jr

In this paper, we characterize the role of each codebook used during the beam management process and design a neural network to find codebooks that improve overall system performance.

Management Quantization

Massive MIMO in 5G: How Beamforming, Codebooks, and Feedback Enable Larger Arrays

no code implementations31 Jan 2023 Ryan M. Dreifuerst, Robert W. Heath Jr

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an important technology in fifth generation (5G) cellular networks and beyond.

Management

Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Beamforming: From Convex and Nonconvex Optimization to Learning Techniques

no code implementations3 Nov 2022 Ahmet M. Elbir, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, Robert W. Heath Jr

With the advances in multi-antenna technologies largely for radar and communications, there has been a great interest on beamformer design mostly relying on convex/nonconvex optimization.

Astronomy

Multi-user Downlink Beamforming using Uplink Downlink Duality with 1-bit Converters for Flat Fading Channels

no code implementations29 Jun 2022 Khurram Usman Mazher, Amine Mezghani, Robert W. Heath Jr

In this paper, we consider a fully digital base station equipped with 1-bit analog-to-digital (in uplink) and digital-to-analog (in downlink) converters on each radio frequency chain.

Quantization

A wideband generalization of the near-field region for extremely large phased-arrays

no code implementations28 Jun 2022 Nitish Deshpande, Miguel R. Castellanos, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Jinfeng Du, Harish Viswanathan, Robert W. Heath Jr

The narrowband and far-field assumption in conventional wireless system design leads to a mismatch with the optimal beamforming required for wideband and near-field systems.

Optimizing the Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in MmWave Vehicular Systems

no code implementations31 May 2022 Xiaowen Tian, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic, Robert W. Heath Jr

Millimeter wave (MmWave) systems are vulnerable to blockages, which cause signal drop and link outage.

Integration of Radar Sensing into Communications with Asynchronous Transceivers

no code implementations30 Mar 2022 J. Andrew Zhang, Kai Wu, Xiaojing Huang, Y. Jay Guo, Daqing Zhang, Robert W. Heath Jr

Clock asynchronism is a critical issue in integrating radar sensing into communication networks.

Multi-armed Bandits for Link Configuration in Millimeter-wave Networks

no code implementations2 Feb 2022 Yi Zhang, Robert W. Heath Jr

As an example, we show that within the MAB framework, the optimal beam sweeping period, beamwidth, and beam directions could be dynamically learned with sample-computational-efficient bandit algorithms.

Multi-Armed Bandits

Dynamic Network-Assisted D2D-Aided Coded Distributed Learning

no code implementations26 Nov 2021 Nikita Zeulin, Olga Galinina, Nageen Himayat, Sergey Andreev, Robert W. Heath Jr

Today, various machine learning (ML) applications offer continuous data processing and real-time data analytics at the edge of a wireless network.

Federated Learning

Circulant Shift-based Beamforming for Secure Communication with Low-resolution Phased Arrays

no code implementations10 Aug 2021 Kartik Patel, Nitin Jonathan Myers, Robert W. Heath Jr

Using simulations, we study the performance of the proposed defense technique against a greedy eavesdropping strategy in a vehicle-to-infrastructure scenario.

SignalNet: A Low Resolution Sinusoid Decomposition and Estimation Network

no code implementations10 Jun 2021 Ryan Dreifuerst, Robert W. Heath Jr

In simulation, we find that our algorithm is always able to surpass the threshold for three-bit data but often cannot exceed the threshold for one-bit data.

Quantization

Waveform Design and Accurate Channel Estimation for Frequency-Hopping MIMO Radar-Based Communications

no code implementations29 Sep 2020 Kai Wu, J. Andrew Zhang, Xiaojing Huang, Y. Jay Guo, Robert W. Heath Jr

In this paper, we develop accurate methods for a single-antenna communication receiver to estimate timing offset and channel for FH-MIMO DFRC.

Adaptive and Fast Combined Waveform-Beamforming Design for mmWave Automotive Joint Communication-Radar

no code implementations6 Sep 2020 Preeti Kumari, Nitin Jonathan Myers, Robert W. Heath Jr

To rapidly estimate the mmWave automotive radar channel in the Doppler-angle domain with a wide field-of-view, our JCR design employs a few circulant shifts of the transmit beamformer and apply two-dimensional partial Fourier compressed sensing technique.

Autonomous Driving

InFocus: A spatial coding technique to mitigate misfocus in near field LoS beamforming

no code implementations8 Jun 2020 Nitin Jonathan Myers, Robert W. Heath Jr

In this paper, we investigate the misfocus effect and propose InFocus, a low complexity technique to construct beams that are well suited for massive wideband phased arrays.

Site-specific online compressive beam codebook learning in mmWave vehicular communication

no code implementations11 May 2020 Yuyang Wang, Nitin Jonathan Myers, Nuria González-Prelcic, Robert W. Heath Jr

Furthermore, based on the CS channel measurements, we develop techniques to update and learn such channel AoD statistics at the BS.

Compressive Sensing

MmWave MU-MIMO for Aerial Networks

2 code implementations10 Apr 2018 Travis Cuvelier, Robert W. Heath Jr

Millimeter wave offers high bandwidth for air-to-air (A2A) communication.

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