Danilo De Donno
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Towards Smart Fronthauling Management: Experimental Insights from a 5G Testbed
Towards Smart Fronthauling Management: Experimental Insights from a 5G Testbed Open
The fronthaul connection is a key component of Centralized RAN (C-RAN) architectures, consistently required to handle high capacity demands. However, this critical feature is at risk when the transport link relies on wireless technology. F…
View article: Meeting Future Mobile Traffic Needs by Peak-Throughput Design of Next-Gen RAN
Meeting Future Mobile Traffic Needs by Peak-Throughput Design of Next-Gen RAN Open
Growing congestion in current mobile networks necessitates innovative solutions. This paper explores the potential of mmWave 5G networks in urban settings, focusing on Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) and the Smart Radio Environment (S…
View article: Shaping Radio Access to Match Variable Wireless Fronthaul Quality in Next-Generation Networks
Shaping Radio Access to Match Variable Wireless Fronthaul Quality in Next-Generation Networks Open
The emergence of Centralized-RAN (C-RAN) has revolutionized mobile network infrastructure, offering streamlined cell-site engineering and enhanced network management capabilities. As C-RAN gains momentum, the focus shifts to optimizing fro…
View article: Exploring Upper-6GHz and mmWave in Real-World 5G Networks: A Direct on-Field Comparison
Exploring Upper-6GHz and mmWave in Real-World 5G Networks: A Direct on-Field Comparison Open
The spectrum crunch challenge poses a vital threat to the progress of cellular networks and recently prompted the inclusion of millimeter wave (mmWave) and Upper 6GHz (U6G) in the 3GPP standards. These two bands promise to unlock a large p…
View article: Shaping Next-Generation RAN Topologies to Meet Future Traffic Demands: A Peak Throughput Study
Shaping Next-Generation RAN Topologies to Meet Future Traffic Demands: A Peak Throughput Study Open
Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) Radio Access Networks (RANs) are a promising solution to tackle the overcrowding of the sub-6 GHz spectrum, offering wider and underutilized bands. However, they are characterized by inherent technical challenges,…
View article: A Clutter Loss Model for Satellite Communication Systems
A Clutter Loss Model for Satellite Communication Systems Open
Buildings and vegetation in the proximity of a terrestrial base station induce a significant additional loss, typically referred to as “clutter loss”, which sums up to free space loss and atmospheric attenuation. Clutter loss is essentiall…
View article: Network-Controlled Repeaters vs. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G mmW Coverage Extension
Network-Controlled Repeaters vs. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G mmW Coverage Extension Open
Network-controlled repeaters (NCR) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are being considered by the third generation partnership project (3GPP) as valid candidates for range extension in millimeter-wave (mmW, 30-300 GHz frequency)…
View article: Toward a Heterogeneous Smart Electromagnetic Environment for Millimeter-Wave Communications: An Industrial Viewpoint
Toward a Heterogeneous Smart Electromagnetic Environment for Millimeter-Wave Communications: An Industrial Viewpoint Open
Fifth generation (5G) and beyond communication systems open the door to millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency bands to leverage the extremely large operating bandwidths and deliver unprecedented network capacity. These frequency bands are aff…
View article: Planning Mm-Wave Access Networks With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Planning Mm-Wave Access Networks With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Open
With the capability to support gigabit data rates, millimetre-wave (mm-Wave) communication is unanimously considered a key technology of future cellular networks. However, the harsh propagation at such high frequencies makes these networks…
View article: Boosting 5G mm-Wave IAB Reliability with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Boosting 5G mm-Wave IAB Reliability with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Open
The introduction of the mm-Wave spectrum into 5G NR promises to bring about unprecedented data throughput to future mobile wireless networks but comes with several challenges. Network densification has been proposed as a viable solution to…
View article: Planning Mm-Wave Access Networks With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Planning Mm-Wave Access Networks With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Open
With the capability to support gigabit data rates, millimetre-wave (mm-Wave) communication is unanimously considered a key technology of future cellular networks. However, the harsh propagation at such high frequencies makes these networks…
View article: Beam Search Strategy for MillimeterWave Networks with Out-of-Band Input Data
Beam Search Strategy for MillimeterWave Networks with Out-of-Band Input Data Open
Beam training in dynamic millimeter-wave (mmwave) networks with mobile devices is highly challenging as devices must scan a large angular domain to maintain alignment of their directional antennas under mobility. Exploiting the fact that m…
View article: Beam Search Strategy for MillimeterWave Networks with Out-of-Band Input Data
Beam Search Strategy for MillimeterWave Networks with Out-of-Band Input Data Open
Beam training in dynamic millimeter-wave (mm-wave) networks with mobile devices is highly challenging as devices must scan a large angular domain to maintain alignment of their directional antennas under mobility. Exploiting the fact that …
View article: Beam-Sweeping Design Based on Nearest Users Position and Beam in 5G mmWave Networks
Beam-Sweeping Design Based on Nearest Users Position and Beam in 5G mmWave Networks Open
The beam sweeping procedure estimates the beamforming directions, or beams, to be used for downlink millimeter-wave cellular transmissions to an incoming user entering the cell. We propose three new approaches for the choice of the sequenc…
View article: Statistical Location and Rotation-Aware Beam Search for Millimeter-Wave Networks
Statistical Location and Rotation-Aware Beam Search for Millimeter-Wave Networks Open
Beam training in dynamic millimeter-wave (mm-wave) networks with mobile devices is highly challenging as devices must scan a large angular domain to maintain alignment of their directional antennas under mobility. Device rotation is partic…
View article: An IoT-aware Architecture to improve Safety in Sports Environments
An IoT-aware Architecture to improve Safety in Sports Environments Open
The introduction of Internet of Things enabling technologies into the sport and recreational activities domain provide an interesting research challenge. Their adoption could significantly improve the sport experience and also the safety l…
View article: Tracking mm-Wave channel dynamics: Fast beam training strategies under mobility
Tracking mm-Wave channel dynamics: Fast beam training strategies under mobility Open
In order to cope with the severe path loss, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems exploit highly directional communication. As a consequence, even a slight beam misalignment between two communicating devices (for example, due to mobility) can …
View article: Millimeter-Wave Beam Training Acceleration Through Low-Complexity Hybrid Transceivers
Millimeter-Wave Beam Training Acceleration Through Low-Complexity Hybrid Transceivers Open
Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication systems can provide much higher data rates than systems operating at lower frequencies, but achieving such rates over sufficiently large distances requires highly directional beamforming at both the …
View article: Tracking mm-Wave Channel Dynamics: Fast Beam Training Strategies under Mobility
Tracking mm-Wave Channel Dynamics: Fast Beam Training Strategies under Mobility Open
In order to cope with the severe path loss, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems exploit highly directional communication. As a consequence, even a slight beam misalignment between two communicating devices (for example, due to mobility) can …
View article: Speeding up mmWave beam training through low-complexity hybrid transceivers
Speeding up mmWave beam training through low-complexity hybrid transceivers Open
Millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless technologies are expected to become key enablers of multi-gigabit wireless access in next-generation cellular and local area networks. Due to unfavorable radio propagation, mmWave systems will exploit larg…
View article: Lightweight and Effective Sector Beam Pattern Synthesis With Uniform Linear Antenna Arrays
Lightweight and Effective Sector Beam Pattern Synthesis With Uniform Linear Antenna Arrays Open
In this letter, we present a lightweight and effective method for the synthesis of sector beam patterns by using uniform linear arrays. With the objective to approximate a desired array-factor response, we formulate an optimization problem…
View article: Hybrid analog-digital beam training for mmWave systems with low-resolution RF phase shifters
Hybrid analog-digital beam training for mmWave systems with low-resolution RF phase shifters Open
Millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless technologies are expected to exploit large-scale multiple-input multiple-output and adaptive antenna arrays at both the transmitter and receiver to deal with unfavorable radio propagation and realize suffi…