25 accepted papers
In this paper, we characterize the effect of radar-to-radar interference in a system setting in terms of the probability of missed detection for two common driving scenarios: Highway traffic and a 4-way intersection. We focus on the frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) and phase modulated cont…
Wireless cellular networks have many parameters that are normally tuned upon deployment and re-tuned as the network changes. Many operational parameters affect reference signal received power (RSRP), reference signal received quality (RSRQ), signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR), and, ultim…
A fully-digital mmWave wideband JCR places difficult demands of power consumption and hardware complexity on the receivers' analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). To address these concerns, we present a low-complexity proof-of-concept (PoC) development for a wideband MIMO JCR that uses a mmWave commun…
Millimeter wave channels exhibit structure that allows beam alignment with fewer channel measurements than exhaustive beam search. From a compressed sensing (CS) perspective, the received channel measurements are usually obtained by multiplying a CS matrix with a sparse representation of the channel…
Receivers with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are promising for high bandwidth millimeter wave (mmWave) systems as they consume less power than their full resolution counterparts. The extreme quantization in one-bit receivers and the use of large antenna arrays at mmWave make channel es…
Accurate path gain models are critical for coverage prediction and radio frequency (RF) planning in wireless communications. In many settings irregular terrain induces blockages and scattering making it difficult to predict the path gain. Current solutions are either computationally expensive or slo…
Compressed sensing (CS)-based beam alignment is a promising solution for rapid link configuration in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems that use large arrays. Translating CS to practical mmWave radios, however, can be challenging due to carrier frequency offset (CFO). Standard sparse recovery techniqu…
Millimeter wave multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) achieves the best performance when reliable channel state information is used to design the beams. Most channel estimation methods proposed in the literature, however, ignore practical hardware impairments such as carrier frequency offset (CFO) a…
Millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceivers employ narrow beams to obtain a large array-gain, rendering them sensitive to changes in the angles of arrival and departure of the paths. Since the singular vectors that span the channel subspace are used to design the prec…
The millimeter wave WLAN standard can be used for joint communication-radar by exploiting the waveform preamble as a radar pulse. The velocity estimation accuracy with this approach, however, is limited due to the short integration time. A physical increase in the radar pulse integration duration, h…
The high hardware complexity of a massive MIMO base station, which requires hundreds of radio chains, makes it challenging to build commercially. One way to reduce the hardware complexity and power consumption of the receiver is to lower the resolution of the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). We…
Compressed beam-selection (CBS) exploits the limited scattering of the millimeter wave (mmWave) channel using compressed sensing and finds the best beam-pair with limited overhead. The CBS procedure can further benefit from the knowledge of some additional structure in the channel. As mmWave systems…
This paper investigates the processing of delay and Doppler information with IEEE 802.11p OFDM signaling for multi-target detection. We study the feasibility of extending IEEE 802.11p short-range communication (DSRC) in vehicles to automotive radio detection and ranging (radar) functionality. By exp…
Hybrid analog/digital precoding in the downlink of multiuser massive MIMO systems can reduce the number of RF chains hence reducing total cost and improving power efficiency. Having few RF chains, however, makes it difficult for a base station to acquire instantaneous channel state information acros…
The IEEE 802.11ad waveform can be used for automotive radar by exploiting the Golay complementary sequences in the preamble of a frame. The performance of radar, however, is limited by the preamble structure. In this paper, we propose an adaptive preamble design that permits a trade-off between rada…
Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ large antennas at both the transmitter and receiver for directional beamforming. Hybrid analog/digital MIMO architectures have been proposed previously for leveraging both array gain and multiplexing gain, while reducing the power consumption in an…
This paper addresses the problem of designing thinned arrays with minimized side lobe levels for antenna selection in millimeter wave MIMO systems. We propose a new optimization solution based on compressed sensing techniques and convex optimization relaxation which we show to be a heuristic that so…
Auxiliary beam pairs are proposed in millimeter-wave cellular systems for closed-loop hybrid precoding. Pairs of custom designed analog beams are formed to help acquire channel information. It is shown via simulations that auxiliary beam pairs have lower complexity and better achievable rates with a…
Hybrid analog/digital precoding allows millimeter wave MIMO systems to leverage large antenna array gains while permitting low cost and power consumption hardware. Most prior work has focused on hybrid precoding for narrow-band mmWave systems. MmWave systems, however, will likely operate on wideband…
We investigate the performance of wideband massive MIMO base stations that use one-bit ADCs for quantizing the uplink signal. Our main result is to show that the many taps of the frequency-selective channel make linear combiners asymptotically consistent and the quantization noise additive and Gauss…
In this paper we analyze the mean squared error (MSE) for one-bit compressed sensing schemes based on measurement matrices that correspond to unit norm tight frames. We show that, as in the unquantized case, sensing with unit norm tight frames improves the MSE in the reconstruction of sparse vectors…
Antenna subset modulation (ASM) is a physical layer security technique that is well suited for millimeter wave communication systems. The key idea is to vary the radiation pattern at the symbol rate by selecting one from a subset of patterns with a similar main lobe and different side lobes. This pa…
High resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an important problem in many array signal processing applications. This paper proposes an augmented covariance estimator for DOA estimation. The new method exploits the periodicity of the covariance lags when the DOAs are assumed on a discrete…
Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ directional beamforming with large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. Acquiring channel knowledge to design these beamformers, however, is challenging due to the large antenna arrays and small signal-to-noise ratio before beamfo…
Wireless communication at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies is attractive for cellular, local area, and ad hoc networks due to the potential for channels with large bandwidths. As a byproduct of directional beamforming and propagation differences, some studies have claimed that mmWave networks wi…