A survey of the challenges, opportunities and use of multiple antennas in current and future 5G small cell base stations

D Muirhead, MA Imran, K Arshad - IEEE access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small cell base stations (SBSs) and multiple antennas are seen as fundamental
technologies in the emergence of the next generation [ie, 5th generation (5G)] of cellular …

An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with omni‐directional antennas, directional antennas have many merits, such as
lower interference, better spatial reuse, longer transmission range, and improved network …

Design and experimental evaluation of multi-user beamforming in wireless LANs

E Aryafar, N Anand, T Salonidis… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Multi-User MIMO promises to increase the spectral efficiency of next generation wireless
systems and is currently being incorporated in future industry standards. Although a …

DIRC: Increasing indoor wireless capacity using directional antennas

X Liu, A Sheth, M Kaminsky, K Papagiannaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
The demand for wireless bandwidth in indoor environments such as homes and offices
continues to increase rapidly. Although wireless technologies such as MIMO can reach link …

Determining RF angle of arrival using COTS antenna arrays: A field evaluation

HC Chen, TH Lin, HT Kung, CK Lin… - MILCOM 2012-2012 …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We are interested in estimating the angle of arrival of an RF signal by using commercial-off-
the-shelf (COTS) software-defined radios (SDRs). The proposed COTS-based approach has …

drti: Directional radio tomographic imaging

B Wei, A Varshney, N Patwari, W Hu, T Voigt… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Radio tomographic imaging (RTI) enables device free localisation of people and objects in
many challenging environments and situations. Its basic principle is to detect the changes in …

Directional antenna diversity for mobile devices: Characterizations and solutions

A Amiri Sani, L Zhong, A Sabharwal - Proceedings of the sixteenth …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We report a first-of-its-kind realization of directional transmission for smartphone-like mobile
devices using multiple passive directional antennas, supported by only one RF chain. The …

Optimal beam scheduling for multicasting in wireless networks

K Sundaresan, K Ramachandran… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of efficient link-layer multicasting in wireless networks with
switched beamforming antennas. The inherent tradeoff between multicasting and …

Customizing indoor wireless coverage via 3D-fabricated reflectors

X Xiong, J Chan, E Yu, N Kumari, AA Sani… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Judicious control of indoor wireless coverage is crucial in built environments. It enhances
signal reception, reduces harmful interference, and raises the barrier for malicious attackers …

ADAM: An adaptive beamforming system for multicasting in wireless LANs

E Aryafar, MA Khojastepour… - IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design and implementation of ADAM, the first adaptive beamforming-based
multicast system and experimental framework for indoor wireless environments. ADAM …