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Main Authors: Wang, Weijia, You, Changsheng, Shao, Xiaodan, Zhang, Rui
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03745
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author Wang, Weijia
You, Changsheng
Shao, Xiaodan
Zhang, Rui
author_facet Wang, Weijia
You, Changsheng
Shao, Xiaodan
Zhang, Rui
contents In this letter, we study an efficient multi-beam training method for multiuser millimeter-wave communication systems. Unlike the conventional single-beam training method that relies on exhaustive search, multi-beam training design faces a key challenge in balancing the trade-off between beam training overhead and success beam-identification rate, exacerbated by severe inter-beam interference. To tackle this challenge, we propose a new two-stage multi-beam training method with two distinct multi-beam patterns to enable fast and accurate user angle identification. Specifically, in the first stage, the antenna array is divided into sparse subarrays to generate multiple beams (with high array gains), for identifying candidate user angles. In the second stage, the array is redivided into dense subarrays to generate flexibly steered wide beams, for which a cross-validation method is employed to effectively resolve the remaining angular ambiguity in the first stage. Last, numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves the success beam-identification rate compared to existing multi-beam training methods, while retaining or even reducing the required beam training overhead.
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spellingShingle Two-stage Multi-beam Training for Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Communications
Wang, Weijia
You, Changsheng
Shao, Xiaodan
Zhang, Rui
Signal Processing
In this letter, we study an efficient multi-beam training method for multiuser millimeter-wave communication systems. Unlike the conventional single-beam training method that relies on exhaustive search, multi-beam training design faces a key challenge in balancing the trade-off between beam training overhead and success beam-identification rate, exacerbated by severe inter-beam interference. To tackle this challenge, we propose a new two-stage multi-beam training method with two distinct multi-beam patterns to enable fast and accurate user angle identification. Specifically, in the first stage, the antenna array is divided into sparse subarrays to generate multiple beams (with high array gains), for identifying candidate user angles. In the second stage, the array is redivided into dense subarrays to generate flexibly steered wide beams, for which a cross-validation method is employed to effectively resolve the remaining angular ambiguity in the first stage. Last, numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves the success beam-identification rate compared to existing multi-beam training methods, while retaining or even reducing the required beam training overhead.
title Two-stage Multi-beam Training for Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Communications
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03745