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Accurate Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation is critical for applications in robotics and communication, but high costs and complexity of coherent multi-channel receivers hinder accessibility. This work proposes a cost-effective DoA…
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The study and benchmarking of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) models has become a trend in many industries, including aerospace engineering and communications. Recent studies in these fields propose these kinds of models to address…
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Cognitive Radio (CR) is a paradigm shift in wireless communications to resolve the spectrum scarcity issue with the ability to self-organize, self-plan and self-regulate. On the other hand, wireless devices that can learn from their…
Accurate, real-time wireless signal prediction is essential for next-generation networks. However, existing vision-based frameworks often rely on computationally intensive models and are also sensitive to environmental interference. To…
Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems can bring substantial improvement in spectral efficiency and/or energy efficiency, due to the excessive degrees-of-freedom and huge array gain. However, large-scale…