Wireless communications and applications above 100 GHz: Opportunities and challenges for 6G and beyond

TS Rappaport, Y Xing, O Kanhere, S Ju… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequencies from 100 GHz to 3 THz are promising bands for the next generation of wireless
communication systems because of the wide swaths of unused and unexplored spectrum …

A Fast DVM Algorithm for Wideband Time-Delay Multi-Beam Beamformers

SM Perera, L Lingsch, A Madanayake… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a sparse factorization for the delay Vandermonde matrix (DVM) along
with fast, exact, radix-2, and recursive algorithms to compute the DVM-vector product for …

A low-SWaP 16-beam 2.4 GHz digital phased array receiver using DFT approximation

VA Coutinho, V Ariyarathna… - … on Aerospace and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-complexity approximation for the 16-point DFT and its respective multiplierless fast
algorithm is proposed. A receive mode multibeam phased-array experiment was realized at …

Fast radix-32 approximate DFTs for 1024-beam digital RF beamforming

A Madanayake, RJ Cintra, N Akram… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is widely employed for multi-beam digital beamforming.
The DFT can be efficiently implemented through the use of fast Fourier transform (FFT) …

Analog approximate-FFT 8/16-beam algorithms, architectures and CMOS circuits for 5G beamforming MIMO transceivers

V Ariyarathna, A Madanayake, X Tang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging millimeter-wave (mmW) wireless systems require beamforming and multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) approaches in order to mitigate path loss, obstructions, and …

A 16-element 2.4-GHz multibeam array receiver using 2-D spatially bandpass digital filters

SK Pulipati, V Ariyarathna… - … on Aerospace and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design, implementation, and the experimental verifications of a 2.4-
GHz multibeam array receiver based on two-dimensional (2-D) spatially bandpass (SBP) …

Analog current-mode 8-point approximate-dft multi-beamformer with 4.7 gbps channel capacity

H Zhao, A Madanayake, RJ Cintra, S Mandal - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a current-mode on-chip analog architecture suitable for multi-
beamforming of IF band signals from small-to moderate-sized antenna arrays. The …

An 8-beam 2.4 GHz digital array receiver based on a fast multiplierless spatial DFT approximation

VA Coutinho, V Ariyarathna… - 2018 IEEE/MTT-S …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-complexity receive-mode 8-beam multi-beamformer in the digital domain has been
realized at 2.4 GHz using an 8-element IQ receiver array. The proposed beamformer is …

Multiobjective Distributed Array Beamforming in the Near Field Using Wireless Syntonization

A Bhattacharyya, JM Merlo… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the efficacy of distributed microwave multiobjective beamforming at ranges
near field to the array using an optimization algorithm and wireless frequency alignment …

Mixed microwave-digital and multi-rate approach for wideband beamforming applications using 2-D IIR beam filters and nested uniform linear arrays

V Ariyarathna, A Madanayake, P Agathoklis… - … Systems and Signal …, 2018 - Springer
The presented work explores novel methods for synthesizing approximately frequency
independent array factors at lower hardware complexity for wideband beamforming …