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This work addresses channel estimation in multiple antenna multicell interference-limited networks. Channel state information (CSI) acquisition is vital for interference mitigation. Wireless networks often suffer from multicell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Maha Alodeh , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper studies the performance of a user positioning system using Channel State Information (CSI) of a Massive MIMO (MaMIMO) system. To infer the position of the user from the CSI, a Convolutional Neural Network is designed and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Sibren De Bast , Adrea P. Guevara , Sofie Pollin

Channel state information (CSI) is critical for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Pilot-based channel estimation methods suffer from high pilot overhead and low channel acquisition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Hongning Ruan , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zirui Chen , Ziqing Xing , Zhaohui Yang

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is viewed as a digital twin of wireless channels, providing location-specific channel knowledge for environment-aware communications. A fundamental problem in CKM-assisted communications is how to construct the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wenjun Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Boyu Teng , Hao Wang , Jing Qian

Recent localization frameworks exploit spatial information of complex channel measurements (CMs) to estimate accurate positions even in multipath propagation scenarios. State-of-the art CM fingerprinting(FP)-based methods employ…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Sebastian Kram , Christopher Kraus , Tobias Feigl , Maximilian Stahlke , Jörg Robert , Christopher Mutschler

We present a neural network architecture for jointly learning user locations and environment mapping up to isometry, in an unsupervised way, from channel state information (CSI) values with no location information. The model is based on an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Shreya Kadambi , Arash Behboodi , Joseph B. Soriaga , Max Welling , Roohollah Amiri , Srinivas Yerramalli , Taesang Yoo

Channel-state information (CSI)-based sensing will play a key role in future cellular systems. However, no CSI dataset has been published from a real-world 5G NR system that facilitates the development and validation of suitable sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Reinhard Wiesmayr , Frederik Zumegen , Sueda Taner , Chris Dick , Christoph Studer

Cognitive (Radio) (CR) Communications (CC) are mainly deployed within the environments of primary (user) communications, where the channel states and accessibility are usually stochastically distributed (benign or IID). However, many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Pan Zhou , Chenhui Hu , Tao Jiang , Dapeng Wu

We introduce a self-supervised framework for learning predictive and structured representations of wireless channels by modeling the temporal evolution of channel state information (CSI) in a compact latent space. Our method casts the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Salmane Naoumi , Mehdi Bennis , Marwa Chafii

In a wireless network, gathering information at the base station about mobile users based only on uplink channel measurements is an interesting challenge. Indeed, accessing the users locations and predicting their downlink channels would be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Luc Le Magoarou

In this paper, we critically review the potential of today's terrestrial wireless communication systems including wireless cellular technologies (GSM, UMTS, LTE, NR), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and wireless sensor networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Tomaž Javornik , Andrej Hrovat , Aleš Švigelj

Sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to have dense infrastructures, large antenna size, wide bandwidth, cost-effective hardware, diversified positioning methods, and enhanced intelligence. Such trends bring both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yong Zeng , Junting Chen , Jie Xu , Di Wu , Xiaoli Xu , Shi Jin , Xiqi Gao , David Gesbert , Shuguang Cui , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability of wireless channel reconfiguration through local antenna movement within a confined region at the transmitter/receiver. However, to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Yitai Huang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

The utilization of millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands in 5G networks poses new challenges to network planning. Vulnerability to blockages at mmWave bands can cause coverage holes (CHs) in the radio environment, leading to radio link failure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chethan K. Anjinappa , Ismail Guvenc

With the depletion of spectrum, wireless communication systems turn to exploit large antenna arrays to achieve the degree of freedom in space domain, such as millimeter wave massive multi-input multioutput (MIMO), reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Shun Zhang , Yushan Liu , Feifei Gao , Chengwen Xing , Jianping An , Octavia A. Dobre

Accurate channel estimation is critical to fully exploit the beamforming gains when communicating with extremely large aperture arrays. The propagation distances between the user and receiver, which potentially has thousands of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Channel charting (CC) has become a key technology for RF-based localization, enabling unsupervised radio fingerprinting, even in non line of sight scenarios, with a minimum of reference position labels. However, most CC models assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Jonas Pirkl , Jonathan Ott , Maximilian Stahlke , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Christopher Mutschler

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems offer significant potential to enhance wireless communication performance, yet accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) acquisition remains a key challenge. Existing works on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Yuanshuai Zheng , Junting Chen

Several studies have explored deep learning algorithms to predict large-scale signal fading, or path loss, in urban communication networks. The goal is to replace costly measurement campaigns, inaccurate statistical models, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Fabian Jaensch , Giuseppe Caire , Begüm Demir

We investigate how fully-passive electromagnetic skins (EMSs) can be engineered to enhance channel charting (CC) in dense urban environments. We employ two complementary state-of-the-art CC techniques, semi-supervised t-distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mahdi Maleki , Reza Agahzadeh Ayoubi , Marouan Mizmizi , Umberto Spagnolini