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The sixth generation (6G) era is envisioned to be a fully intelligent and autonomous era, with physical and digital lifestyles merged together. Future wireless network architectures should provide a solid support for such new lifestyles. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Chaowen Deng , Lu Yang , Hao Wu , Dmitry Zaporozhets , Miaomiao Dong , Bo Bai

The advent of multi-domain and multi-requirement digital services requires an underlying network ecosystem able to understand service-specific contexts. In this work, we propose Knowledge Centric Networking (KCN), a paradigm in which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Marinos Charalambides , Daphne Tuncer , Ning Wang , George Pavlou

Electromagnetic (EM) communication is nearing its physical and thermodynamic limits, where further performance gains through spectrum optimization alone have become increasingly unsustainable. Finite bandwidth, propagation loss at higher…

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This white paper explores the road to implementing broadband connectivity in future 6G wireless systems. Different categories of use cases are considered, from extreme capacity with peak data rates up to 1 Tbps, to raising the typical data…

Accurate channel state information (CSI) is critical to the performance of wireless communication systems, especially with the increasing scale and complexity introduced by 5G and future 6G technologies. While artificial intelligence (AI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiajia Guo , Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

To meet the robust and high-speed communication requirements of the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication system in complex scenarios, sensing- and artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital twin channel (DTC) techniques become a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Yichen Cai , Jianhua Zhang , Li Yu , Zhen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Lianzheng Shi , Yuelong Qiu , Yong Zeng

This letter studies the application of backscatter communications (BackCom) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (BAC-NOMA) to the envisioned sixth-generation (6G) ultra-massive machine type communications (umMTC). In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

In 5G networks, the number of connected devices, data rate and data volume per area, as well as the variety of QoS requirements, will attain unprecedented scales. The achievement of these goals will rely on new technologies and disruptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Malek Naoues , Quentin Bodinier , Jacques Palicot

This article aims at providing insights for a comprehensive understanding of terahertz (THz) propagation channels. Specifically, we discuss essential THz channel characteristics to be well understood for the success of THz communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Xuesong Cai , Xiang Cheng , Fredrik Tufvesson

Accurate channel state information (CSI) acquisition for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is essential for future mobile communication networks. Channel fingerprint (CF), also referred to as channel knowledge map, is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Xudong Li , Zhen Gao , Yuanwei Liu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

Accurate channel estimation is crucial for the improvement of signal processing performance in wireless communications. However, traditional model-based methods frequently experience difficulties in dynamic environments. Similarly,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Thien Hieu Hoang , Tri Nhu Do , Georges Kaddoum

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ping Zhang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Haixiao Gao , Nan Ma , Xiaoyun Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Channel charting is a recently proposed framework that applies dimensionality reduction to channel state information (CSI) in wireless systems with the goal of associating a pseudo-position to each mobile user in a low-dimensional space:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Paul Ferrand , Maxime Guillaud , Christoph Studer , Olav Tirkkonen

With recent advancements in the sixth generation (6G) communication technologies, more vertical industries have encountered diverse network services. How to reduce energy consumption is critical to meet the expectation of the quality of…

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This paper addresses the problem of optimizing communicated information among heterogeneous, resource-aware robot teams to facilitate their navigation. In such operations, a mobile robot compresses its local map to assist another robot in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Evangelos Psomiadis , Ali Reza Pedram , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Channel state information (CSI) has been a key component in traditional wireless communication systems. This might no longer hold in future networks supporting services with stringent quality of service constraints such as extremely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Onel L. A. López , Nurul H. Mahmood , Hirley Alves , Carlos M. Lima , Matti Latva-aho

In this article, we first present the vision, key performance indicators, key enabling techniques (KETs), and services of 6G wireless networks. Then, we highlight a series of general resource management (RM) challenges as well as unique RM…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Mehdi Rasti , Shiva Kazemi Taskou , Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

Wireless communication is rapidly evolving, and future wireless communications (6G and beyond) will be more heterogeneous, multi-layered, and complex, which poses challenges to traditional communications. Adaptive technologies in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Liangxin Qian , Ping Yang , Jun Zhao , Ze Chen , Wanbin Tang

Neural networks have been proposed recently for positioning and channel charting of user equipments (UEs) in wireless systems. Both of these approaches process channel state information (CSI) that is acquired at a multi-antenna base-station…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Eric Lei , Oscar Castañeda , Olav Tirkkonen , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

Noncoherent communication is a promising paradigm for future wireless systems where acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI) is challenging or infeasible. It provides methods to bypass the need for explicit channel estimation in…

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