6G wireless communications networks: A comprehensive survey

M Alsabah, MA Naser, BM Mahmmod… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The commercial fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications networks have already been
deployed with the aim of providing high data rates. However, the rapid growth in the number …

Two beams are better than one: Towards reliable and high throughput mmWave links

IK Jain, R Subbaraman, D Bharadia - … of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Millimeter-wave communication with high throughput and high reliability is poised to be a
gamechanger for V2X and VR applications. However, mmWave links are notorious for low …

MAMBA: A multi-armed bandit framework for beam tracking in millimeter-wave systems

I Aykin, B Akgun, M Feng… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-wave (mmW) spectrum is a major candidate to support the high data rates of 5G
systems. However, due to directionality of mmW communication systems, misalignments …

Efficient beam sweeping algorithms and initial access protocols for millimeter-wave networks

I Aykin, M Krunz - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G millimeter-wave (mmW) systems rely on electronically steerable antenna arrays to
support directional communications. Directionality complicates the initial access (IA) …

mmflexible: Flexible directional frequency multiplexing for multi-user mmwave networks

IK Jain, RR Vennam, R Subbaraman… - IEEE INFOCOM 2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern mmWave systems have limited scalability due to inflexibility in performing frequency
multiplexing. All the frequency components in the signal are beamformed to one direction …

Online Reinforcement Learning for Beam Tracking and Rate Adaptation in Millimeter-wave Systems

M Krunz, I Aykin, S Sarkar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose MAMBA, a restless multi-armed bandit framework for beam
tracking in directional millimeter-wave (mmW) cellular systems. Instead of relying on explicit …

Concurrent multi-beam transmissions for reliable communication in millimeter-wave networks

Y Liu, C Tang - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is an important technology to meet the demand
of high data rate in sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Blockage is a major obstacle to …

MmRAPID: Machine learning assisted noncoherent compressive millimeter-wave beam alignment

H Yan, BW Domae, D Cabric - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Millimeter-wave communication has the potential to deliver orders of magnitude increases in
mobile data rates. A key design challenge is to enable rapid beam alignment with phased …

Best Arm Identification Based Beam Acquisition in Stationary and Abruptly Changing Environments

G Ghatak - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the initial beam acquisition problem in millimeter wave (mm-wave) networks from
the perspective of best arm identification in multi-armed bandits (MABs). For the stationary …

On-off arbitrary beam synthesis and non-interactive beam management for phased antenna array communications

HS Yoon, DG Jo, DI Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the beam synthesis and management methods for the phased
antenna array-based wireless communications systems, eg, 5 G mmWave communications …