no code implementations • 16 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.
no code implementations • 5 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.
no code implementations • 24 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.
no code implementations • 8 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.
no code implementations • 25 Aug 2023 • Dohyun Kim, Miguel R. Castellanos, Robert W. Heath Jr
In this paper, we formulate a sequential decision problem to jointly perform band assignment and beam management.
no code implementations • 29 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.
no code implementations • 15 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.
no code implementations • 6 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.
no code implementations • 31 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.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2022 • Dohyun Kim, Miguel R. Castellanos, Robert W. Heath Jr
In this regard, we formulate a sequential decision problem to jointly optimize relay selection and beam management.
no code implementations • 3 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.
no code implementations • 29 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.
no code implementations • 28 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.
no code implementations • 31 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.
no code implementations • 30 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.
no code implementations • 2 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.
no code implementations • 26 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.
no code implementations • 10 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.
no code implementations • 10 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.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2021 • Aldebaro Klautau, Pedro Batista, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic, Yuyang Wang, Robert W. Heath Jr
The increasing complexity of configuring cellular networks suggests that machine learning (ML) can effectively improve 5G technologies.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2021 • Yuyang Wang, Nitin Jonathan Myers, Nuria González-Prelcic, Robert W. Heath Jr
We design fully-connected layers to optimize channel acquisition and beam alignment.
no code implementations • 29 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.
no code implementations • 6 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.
no code implementations • 8 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.
no code implementations • 11 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.
2 code implementations • 10 Apr 2018 • Travis Cuvelier, Robert W. Heath Jr
Millimeter wave offers high bandwidth for air-to-air (A2A) communication.