Beamforming is a signal processing technique used to focus radio frequency (RF) energy in a specific direction, enhancing the performance of wireless communication links. Beamforming is employed to improve signal quality, increase coverage, and optimize the use of the available spectrum. This technique is particularly relevant in scenarios where it’s important to establish a strong and reliable connection between a transmitter and a receiver. The adaptability and efficiency of beamforming make it a key component in the evolution of wireless technologies.

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Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensor as an Acoustic Communication Receiver Array

A novel acoustic transmission technique using distributed acoustic sensors is introduced. By choosing better incident angles for smaller fading and employing an 8- channel beamformer, over 10KB data is transmitted at a 6.4kbps data rate.

OFDM Signal Transmission Using Distributed Fiber-Optic Acoustic Sensing

Acoustic data transmission with the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal has been demonstrated using a Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) based on Phase-sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry (?-OTDR).

Shaping mmWave Wireless Channel via Multi-Beam Design using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is considered as a key enabler towards the realization of next-generation wireless networks, due to the abundance of available spectrum at mmWave frequencies. However, mmWave suffers from high free-space path-loss and poor scattering resulting in mostly line-of-sight (LoS) channels which result in a lack of coverage. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), as a new paradigm, have the potential to fill the coverage holes by shaping the wireless channel. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for designing RIS with elements arranged in a uniform planar array (UPA) structure. In what we refer to as multi-beamforming, We propose and design RIS such that the reflected beam comprises multiple disjoint lobes. Moreover, the beams have optimized gain within the desired angular coverage with fairly sharp edges avoiding power leakage to other regions. We provide a closed-form low-complexity solution for the multi-beamforming design. We confirm our theoretical results by numerical analysis.