Efficient beam alignment in millimeter wave systems using contextual bandits

M Hashemi, A Sabharwal, CE Koksal… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the problem of beam alignment in millimeter wave (mmWave)
systems, and design an optimal algorithm to reduce the overhead. Specifically, due to …

Beam alignment and tracking for millimeter wave communications via bandit learning

J Zhang, Y Huang, Y Zhou, X You - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter wave (mmwave) communications have attracted increasing attention thanks to the
abundant spectrum resource. The short wave-length of mmwave signals facilitates exploiting …

Multi-armed bandit beam alignment and tracking for mobile millimeter wave communications

MB Booth, V Suresh, N Michelusi… - IEEE Communications …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel beam alignment and tracking algorithm for time-varying millimeter wave
channels with a dynamic channel support. Millimeter wave beam alignment is challenging …

Fast mmwave beam alignment via correlated bandit learning

W Wu, N Cheng, N Zhang, P Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Beam alignment (BA) is to ensure the transmitter and receiver beams are accurately aligned
to establish a reliable communication link in millimeter-wave (mmwave) systems. Existing …

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 …

Online learning for position-aided millimeter wave beam training

V Va, T Shimizu, G Bansal, RW Heath - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate beam alignment is essential for the beam-based millimeter wave communications.
The conventional beam sweeping solutions often have large overhead, which is …

FML: Fast machine learning for 5G mmWave vehicular communications

A Asadi, S Müller, GH Sim, A Klein… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) bands have become the de-facto candidate for 5G vehicle-to-
everything (V2X) since future vehicular systems demand Gbps links to acquire the …

An online context-aware machine learning algorithm for 5G mmWave vehicular communications

GH Sim, S Klos, A Asadi, A Klein… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) bands have become the de-facto candidate for 5G vehicle-to-
everything (V2X) since future vehicular systems demand Gbps links to acquire the …

Millimeter wave beam alignment: Large deviations analysis and design insights

C Liu, M Li, SV Hanly, IB Collings… - IEEE journal on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In millimeter wave cellular communication, fast and reliable beam alignment via beam
training is crucial to harvest sufficient beamforming gain for the subsequent data …

Tracking mm-Wave channel dynamics: Fast beam training strategies under mobility

J Palacios, D De Donno… - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to cope with the severe path loss, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems exploit highly
directional communication. As a consequence, even a slight beam mis-alignment between …