Initial access & beam alignment for mmWave and terahertz communications

W Attaoui, K Bouraqia, E Sabir - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The initial access in Millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G communications is very challenging and
time consuming. In general, mmWave and terahertz communications require the use of …

A probabilistic analysis of link duration in vehicular ad hoc networks

G Yan, S Olariu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past decade has witnessed a phenomenal market penetration of wireless
communications and a steady increase in the number of mobile users. Unlike wired …

Path planning for UAVs under communication constraints using SPLAT! and MILP

EI Grøtli, TA Johansen - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2012 - Springer
We will in this paper address the problem of offline path planning for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs). Our goal is to find paths that meet mission objectives, are safe with respect …

Vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity analysis for vehicular ad-hoc networks

G Yan, DB Rawat - Ad Hoc Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) is
of importance in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in which vehicles enlisted with …

On connectivity of wireless sensor networks with directional antennas

Q Wang, HN Dai, Z Zheng, M Imran, AV Vasilakos - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we investigate the network connectivity of wireless sensor networks with
directional antennas. In particular, we establish a general framework to analyze the network …

Sidelobe control in collaborative beamforming via node selection

MFA Ahmed, SA Vorobyov - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative beamforming (CB) is a power efficient method for data communications in
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which aims at increasing the transmission range in the …

Enhanced dynamic spectrum access in multiband cognitive radio networks via optimized resource allocation

P Bhardwaj, A Panwar, O Ozdemir… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the constrained resource allocation problems arising in the context
of spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks utilizing a multi-dimensional formulation …

On modeling eavesdrop** attacks in wireless networks

X Li, J Xu, HN Dai, Q Zhao, CF Cheang… - Journal of Computational …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper concerns the eavesdrop** attacks from the eavesdroppers' perspective, which
is new since most of current studies consider the problem from the good nodes' perspective …

Achieving small-world properties using bio-inspired techniques in wireless networks

R Agarwal, A Banerjee, V Gauthier… - The Computer …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
It is highly desirable and challenging for a wireless ad hoc network to have self-organization
properties in order to achieve wide network characteristics. Studies have shown that Small …

A Q-learning-based approach for distributed beam scheduling in mmwave networks

X Zhang, S Sarkar, A Bhuyan… - … on Dynamic Spectrum …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of distributed downlink beam scheduling and power allocation for
millimeter-Wave (mmWave) cellular networks where multiple base stations (BSs) belonging …