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) …

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 …

Multi-beam transmissions for blockage resilience and reliability in millimeter-wave systems

I Aykin, B Akgun, M Krunz - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Directionality in millimeter-wave (mmW) systems make link establishment and maintenance
challenging, due to the search-time overhead of beam scanning and the vulnerability of …

Ub3: Best beam identification in millimeter wave systems via pure exploration unimodal bandits

D Ghosh, H Rahman, MK Hanawal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have a broad spectrum and can support data
rates in the order of gigabits per second, as envisioned in 5G systems. However, they cannot …

Learning-based blockage prediction for robust links in dynamic millimeter wave networks

M Zarifneshat, L Xiao, J Tang, X Zhang - Wireless Networks, 2021 - Springer
To employ millimeter wave technology in 5G networks, two inherent challenges need to be
addressed in dynamic outdoor environments. Firstly, different types of obstacles can easily …

Impact of beamforming on delay spread in wideband millimeter-wave systems

B Akgun, M Krunz, D Manzi - 2020 International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The harsh propagation environment at millimeter-wave (mmW) frequencies can be
countered by using large antenna arrays, which can be steered electronically to create …

Beamwidth optimization for 5G NR millimeter wave cellular networks: A multi-armed bandit approach

M Feng, B Akgun, I Aykin… - ICC 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of highly directional antennas in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks
necessitates precise beam alignment between a base station (BS) and a user equipment …

Beam adaptation using out-of-band signals for robust millimeter-wave communications

M Zarifneshat, L Xiao - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Millimeter-wave technology has proved to be one of the enabling technologies of the fifth
generation of wireless networks. Despite the merits of the millimeter-wave spectrum, its …