Self-supervised deep learning for mmWave beam steering exploiting sub-6 GHz channels

I Chafaa, R Negrel, EV Belmega… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
mmWave communication requires accurate and continuous beam steering to overcome the
severe propagation loss and user mobility. In this paper, we leverage a self-supervised deep …

Federated channel-beam mapping: from sub-6ghz to mmwave

I Chafaa, R Negrel, EV Belmega… - 2021 IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate beamforming is a critical challenge for mmWave communications. Because of the
large training overhead of beam training at high frequencies, it becomes relevant to exploit …

FusionNet: Enhanced beam prediction for mmWave communications using sub-6 GHz channel and a few pilots

F Gao, B Lin, C Bian, T Zhou, J Qian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to reduce the downlink training overhead of mmWave communications, we propose
a novel downlink beamforming strategy using the uplink sub-6GHz channel and downlink …

Learning to predict the mobility of users in mobile mmWave networks

X Liu, J Yu, H Qi, J Yang, W Rong… - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MmWave communication suffers from severe path loss due to high frequency and is
sensitive to blockages because of high penetration loss, especially in mobile communication …

Deep learning for mmWave beam-management: State-of-the-art, opportunities and challenges

K Ma, Z Wang, W Tian, S Chen… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications
provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To …

Augmenting Beam Alignment for mmWave Communication Systems via Channel Attention

J Kim, J Kim - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The beamforming technique has attracted considerable attention in wireless communication
due to its various advantages such as interference reduction and improved wireless …

Deep learning-based mmWave beam selection for 5G NR/6G with sub-6 GHz channel information: Algorithms and prototype validation

MS Sim, YG Lim, SH Park, L Dai, CB Chae - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In fifth-generation (5G) communications, millimeter wave (mmWave) is one of the key
technologies to increase the data rate. To overcome this technology's poor propagation …

Deep reinforcement learning based blind mmWave MIMO beam alignment

V Raj, N Nayak, S Kalyani - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Directional beamforming is a crucial component for realizing robust wireless millimeter wave
(mmWave) communication systems. Beam alignment using brute-force search introduces …

Deep learning for hierarchical beam alignment in mmWave communication systems

J Yang, W Zhu, M Tao - GLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE Global …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 site-specific probing beams for fast mmWave beam alignment

Y Heng, J Mo, JG Andrews - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Beam alignment–the process of finding an optimal directional beam pair–is a challenging
procedure crucial to millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. We propose a …