IEEE JSTSP Article

Millimeter wave technology is an essential component of most solutions that address the coverage and throughput demands of next-generation cellular networks. To overcome the high propagation losses however, it is necessary to deploy large antenna arrays for spatial localization of energy by beamforming. 

Energy-efficient, highly integrated lens antenna arrays (LAAs) have found widespread applications in wideband millimeter wave or terahertz communications, localization and tracking, and wireless power transfer. Accurate estimation of angle-of-arrival (AoA) is key to those applications, but has been hindered by a spatial-wideband effect in wideband systems. 

This paper presents a time-frequency masking based online multi-channel speech enhancement approach that uses a convolutional recurrent neural network to estimate the mask. The magnitude and phase components of the short-time Fourier transform coefficients for multiple time frames are provided as an input such that the network is able to discriminate between the directional speech...

This paper presents a time-frequency masking based online multi-channel speech enhancement approach that uses a convolutional recurrent neural network to estimate the mask. The magnitude and phase components of the short-time Fourier transform coefficients for multiple time frames are provided as an input such that the network is able to discriminate between the directional speech...

The seven papers in this special issue cover various far-field speech processing techniques including speech enhancement, separation and recognition, and their integration. In most of the methods, multichannel speech processing is an essential component to achieve state-of-the-art performance.

In this paper, we propose a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme with beamwidth control for hybrid millimeter wave communication systems and study the resource allocation design to maximize the system energy efficiency. In particular, NOMA transmission allows more than one user to share a single radio frequency chain, which is beneficial to enhance the system energy efficiency. More importantly, the proposed beamwidth control can increase the number of served NOMA groups by widening the beamwidth that can further exploit the energy efficiency gain brought by NOMA.

Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is promising for increasing connectivity and capacity. But there has been little consideration on the quality of service of NOMA; let alone that in generic fading channels. This paper establishes closed-form upper bounds for the delay violation probability of downlink Nakagami- mand Rician NOMA channels, by exploiting stochastic network calculus (SNC).

The significant advances of cellular systems and mobile Internet services have yielded a variety of computation intensive applications, resulting in great challenge to mobile terminals (MTs) with limited computation resources. Mobile edge computing, which enables MTs to offload their computation tasks to edge servers located at cellular base stations (BSs), has provided a promising approach to address this challenging issue.

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is one of the promising radio access techniques for next generation wireless networks. Opportunistic multi-user scheduling is necessary to fully exploit multiplexing gains in NOMA systems, but compared with traditional scheduling, inter-relations between users’ throughputs induced by multi-user interference poses new challenges in the design of NOMA schedulers.