In this paper,an integrated substrate gap waveguide(ISGW)filtering antenna is proposed at millimeter wave band,whose surface wave and spurious modes are simultaneously suppressed.A secondorder filtering response is ob...In this paper,an integrated substrate gap waveguide(ISGW)filtering antenna is proposed at millimeter wave band,whose surface wave and spurious modes are simultaneously suppressed.A secondorder filtering response is obtained through a coupling feeding scheme using one uniform impedance resonator(UIR)and two stepped-impedance resonators(SIRs).To increase the stopband width of the antenna,the spurious modes are suppressed by selecting the appropriate sizes of the ISGW unit cell.Furthermore,the ISGW is implemented to improve the radiation performance of the antenna by alleviating the propagation of surface wave.And an equivalent circuit is investigated to reveal the working principle of ISGW.To demonstrate this methodology,an ISGW filtering antenna operating at a center frequency of 25 GHz is designed,fabricated,and measured.The results show that the antenna achieves a stopband width of 1.6f0(center frequency),an out-of-band suppression level of 21 dB,and a peak realized gain of 8.5 dBi.展开更多
Millimeter Wave(mmWave)communication has been widely acknowledged as an attractive solution to address high-speed transmission of massive data in 5G and beyond 5G systems due to the promising spectrum availability.How...Millimeter Wave(mmWave)communication has been widely acknowledged as an attractive solution to address high-speed transmission of massive data in 5G and beyond 5G systems due to the promising spectrum availability.However,mmWave signals are highly susceptible to blockage and may suffer from rapidly changing channels.Thus,directional/beam tracking becomes imperative yet essential for robust mmWave communications.To address this challenge,we propose a robust beam tracking scheme for mmWave Heterogeneous Networks(HetNets)with multi-connectivity.Different from most existing schemes,the proposed beam tracking scheme is effective for outage events.We first discuss theμWave-assisted beam tracking procedure with and without candidate beams,and then analyze the inherent correlation between mmWave link quality and the operating beamwidth and occlusion range to derive the optimal beamwidth.Theoretical and numerical results show that the proposed beam tracking scheme can improve the robustness of mmWave communications while guaranteeing the rate performance.展开更多
The optical communication technology features low cost,wide band,low loss,and anti-electromagnetic interference performance.By combining the optical communication technology with the radio millimeter wave communicatio...The optical communication technology features low cost,wide band,low loss,and anti-electromagnetic interference performance.By combining the optical communication technology with the radio millimeter wave communication system,the Millimeter Wave Radio over Fiber (MM-RoF) system boasts a lot of advantages,including wide band,small size,light weight,low cost,low loss,and resistance of electromagnetic interference as well as high transmission quality.The MM-RoF technology solves the problems faced by traditional microwave transmission system at the millimeter wave band,namely,high loss and inability to resist interference efficiently.Meanwhile,it puts an end to the bottleneck of millimeter wave electronic devices and thus is deemed as with great potentials.The MM-ROF technology that supports multiple formats and services signifies one of the significant trends for future development of the MM-RoF system.展开更多
The demand for wireless data has been driving network capacity to double about every two years for the past 50 years, if not 100 years, and this has come to be known as Cooper's Law. In recent years, this trend has a...The demand for wireless data has been driving network capacity to double about every two years for the past 50 years, if not 100 years, and this has come to be known as Cooper's Law. In recent years, this trend has accelerated as a greater proportion of the population adopts wireless devices with ever greater capabilities, including tablets that support HD video and other advanced capabilities.展开更多
Device-to-Device(D2D)communication-enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks(HCNs)have been a promising technology for satisfying the growing demands of smart mobile devices in fifth-generation mobile networks.The intro...Device-to-Device(D2D)communication-enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks(HCNs)have been a promising technology for satisfying the growing demands of smart mobile devices in fifth-generation mobile networks.The introduction of Millimeter Wave(mm-wave)communications into D2D-enabled HCNs allows higher system capacity and user data rates to be achieved.However,interference among cellular and D2D links remains severe due to spectrum sharing.In this paper,to guarantee user Quality of Service(QoS)requirements and effectively manage the interference among users,we focus on investigating the joint optimization problem of mode selection and channel allocation in D2D-enabled HCNs with mm-wave and cellular bands.The optimization problem is formulated as the maximization of the system sum-rate under QoS constraints of both cellular and D2D users in HCNs.To solve it,a distributed multiagent deep Q-network algorithm is proposed,where the reward function is redefined according to the optimization objective.In addition,to reduce signaling overhead,a partial information sharing strategy that does not observe global information is proposed for D2D agents to select the optimal mode and channel through learning.Simulation results illustrate that the proposed joint optimization algorithm possesses good convergence and achieves better system performance compared with other existing schemes.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key research and development program of China(No.2021YFB 2900401)the national natural science foundation of China(No.62361057,No.61861046)+1 种基金the key natural science foundation of Shenzhen(No.JCYJ20220818102209020)the key research and development program of Shenzhen(No.ZDSYS20210623091807023).
文摘In this paper,an integrated substrate gap waveguide(ISGW)filtering antenna is proposed at millimeter wave band,whose surface wave and spurious modes are simultaneously suppressed.A secondorder filtering response is obtained through a coupling feeding scheme using one uniform impedance resonator(UIR)and two stepped-impedance resonators(SIRs).To increase the stopband width of the antenna,the spurious modes are suppressed by selecting the appropriate sizes of the ISGW unit cell.Furthermore,the ISGW is implemented to improve the radiation performance of the antenna by alleviating the propagation of surface wave.And an equivalent circuit is investigated to reveal the working principle of ISGW.To demonstrate this methodology,an ISGW filtering antenna operating at a center frequency of 25 GHz is designed,fabricated,and measured.The results show that the antenna achieves a stopband width of 1.6f0(center frequency),an out-of-band suppression level of 21 dB,and a peak realized gain of 8.5 dBi.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62001071Macao Young Scholars Program under Grant AM2021018+2 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2020M683291the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission under Grant KJQN201900617 and KJQN202200617The work of G. Feng was partly supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant ZYGX2020ZB044.
文摘Millimeter Wave(mmWave)communication has been widely acknowledged as an attractive solution to address high-speed transmission of massive data in 5G and beyond 5G systems due to the promising spectrum availability.However,mmWave signals are highly susceptible to blockage and may suffer from rapidly changing channels.Thus,directional/beam tracking becomes imperative yet essential for robust mmWave communications.To address this challenge,we propose a robust beam tracking scheme for mmWave Heterogeneous Networks(HetNets)with multi-connectivity.Different from most existing schemes,the proposed beam tracking scheme is effective for outage events.We first discuss theμWave-assisted beam tracking procedure with and without candidate beams,and then analyze the inherent correlation between mmWave link quality and the operating beamwidth and occlusion range to derive the optimal beamwidth.Theoretical and numerical results show that the proposed beam tracking scheme can improve the robustness of mmWave communications while guaranteeing the rate performance.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.60736003the National Basic Research Program of China("973" Program)under Grant No.2006CB302800
文摘The optical communication technology features low cost,wide band,low loss,and anti-electromagnetic interference performance.By combining the optical communication technology with the radio millimeter wave communication system,the Millimeter Wave Radio over Fiber (MM-RoF) system boasts a lot of advantages,including wide band,small size,light weight,low cost,low loss,and resistance of electromagnetic interference as well as high transmission quality.The MM-RoF technology solves the problems faced by traditional microwave transmission system at the millimeter wave band,namely,high loss and inability to resist interference efficiently.Meanwhile,it puts an end to the bottleneck of millimeter wave electronic devices and thus is deemed as with great potentials.The MM-ROF technology that supports multiple formats and services signifies one of the significant trends for future development of the MM-RoF system.
文摘The demand for wireless data has been driving network capacity to double about every two years for the past 50 years, if not 100 years, and this has come to be known as Cooper's Law. In recent years, this trend has accelerated as a greater proportion of the population adopts wireless devices with ever greater capabilities, including tablets that support HD video and other advanced capabilities.
基金The work presented in this paper was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61801278,61972237 and 61901247)Shandong Provincial scientific research programs in colleges and universities(J18KA310)+1 种基金the Key Laboratory of Cognitive Radio and Information Processing,Ministry of Education(Guilin University of Electronic Technology)(CRKL190205)the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.ZR2019MF017)。
文摘Device-to-Device(D2D)communication-enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks(HCNs)have been a promising technology for satisfying the growing demands of smart mobile devices in fifth-generation mobile networks.The introduction of Millimeter Wave(mm-wave)communications into D2D-enabled HCNs allows higher system capacity and user data rates to be achieved.However,interference among cellular and D2D links remains severe due to spectrum sharing.In this paper,to guarantee user Quality of Service(QoS)requirements and effectively manage the interference among users,we focus on investigating the joint optimization problem of mode selection and channel allocation in D2D-enabled HCNs with mm-wave and cellular bands.The optimization problem is formulated as the maximization of the system sum-rate under QoS constraints of both cellular and D2D users in HCNs.To solve it,a distributed multiagent deep Q-network algorithm is proposed,where the reward function is redefined according to the optimization objective.In addition,to reduce signaling overhead,a partial information sharing strategy that does not observe global information is proposed for D2D agents to select the optimal mode and channel through learning.Simulation results illustrate that the proposed joint optimization algorithm possesses good convergence and achieves better system performance compared with other existing schemes.