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Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) is an emerging data-driven toolbox that captures our awareness of the wireless channel and enables efficient communication and resource allocation beyond the state of the art. In this work, we consider CKM for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ladan Khaloopour , Matthias Hollick , Vahid Jamali

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising paradigm shift towards environment-aware communication and sensing by providing location-specific prior channel knowledge before real-time communication. Although CKM is particularly appealing for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Zhuoyin Dai , Di Wu , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

The channel knowledge map (CKM) enables efficient construction of high-fidelity mapping between spatial environments and channel parameters via electromagnetic information analysis. Nevertheless, existing studies are largely confined to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Haohan Wang , Xu Shi , Hengyu Zhang , Yashuai Cao , Sufang Yang , Jintao Wang , Kaibin Huang

The substantial communication resources consumed by conventional pilot-based channel sounding impose an unsustainable overhead, presenting a critical scalability challenge for the future 6G networks characterized by massive channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Yancheng Wang , Chuan Huang , Songyang Zhang , Guanying Chen , Wei Guo , Shenglun Lan , Lexi Xu , Xinzhou Cheng , Xiongyan Tang , Shuguang Cui

Channel knowledge map (CKM) emerges as a promising framework to acquire location-specific channel information without consuming wireless resources, creating new horizons for advanced wireless network design and optimization. Despite its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xu Shi , Haohan Wang , Yashuai Cao , Hengyu Zhang , Sufang Yang , Jintao Wang

The construction of channel gain map (CGM) is essential for realizing environment-aware wireless communications expected in 6G, for which a fundamental problem is how to predict the channel gains at unknown locations effectively by a finite…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jiayi Chen , Ruifeng Gao , Jue Wang , Shu Sun , Yi Wu

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is emerging as a critical enabler for environment-aware 6G networks, offering a site-specific database to significantly reduce pilot overhead. However, existing CKM construction methods typically rely on sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Le Zhao , Yining Wang , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei , Yong Zeng

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a promising technique to leverage prior propagation knowledge in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), yet state-of-the-art grid-based CKM construction methods struggle to support efficient LAWN…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Le Zhao , Zesong Fei , Wenge Shi , Xinyi Wang , Jingxuan Huang , Jihao Luo , Yong Zeng

Channel knowledge maps (CKMs) provide a site-specific, location-indexed knowledge base that supports environment-aware communications and sensing in 6G networks. In practical deployments, CKM observations are often noisy and irregular due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Sixu Xiao , Yong Zeng , Haotian Rong , Yanqun Tang

Hybrid analog/digital beamforming is a promising technique to realize millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems cost-effectively. However, existing hybrid beamforming designs mainly rely on real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a novel approach for achieving environment-aware communication and sensing. This paper presents an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-based CKM prototype system, demonstrating the mutualistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Chaoyue Zhang , Zhiwen Zhou , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Zaichen Zhang , Shi Jin

In 6G mobile communications, acquiring accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) becomes increasingly challenging due to the growing antenna array size and bandwidth. To alleviate the CSI feedback burden, the channel knowledge map…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Shengli Liu , Guanding Yu

This paper introduces a novel channel knowledge map (CKM)-assisted dual-domain tracking and predictive beamforming scheme for high-mobility wireless networks. The central premise is that the CKM integrates both the coordinate and beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Ruolin Du , Zhiqiang Wei , Zai Yang , Lei Yang , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a crucial technology for next-generation communication, enabling the construction of high-fidelity mappings between spatial environments and channel parameters via electromagnetic information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Haohan Wang , Xu Shi , Hengyu Zhang , Yashuai Cao , Jintao Wang

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising technology to enable environment-aware wireless communications and sensing. Link state map (LSM) is one particular type of CKM that aims to learn the location-specific line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuhang Yang , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

As one of the key usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) provides an efficient framework to achieve simultaneous wireless sensing and communication. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Di Wu , Zhuoyin Dai , Yong Zeng

To alleviate the pilot and CSI-feedback burden in 6G, channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a promising approach that predicts CSI solely from user locations. Nevertheless, accurate location information is rarely available in current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

This paper presents a novel two-stage method for constructing channel knowledge maps (CKMs) specifically for A2G (Aerial-to-Ground) channels in the presence of non-cooperative interfering nodes (INs). We first estimate the interfering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Le Zhao , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Jingxuan Huang , Yuan Li , Yan Zhang

The advancement of advanced air mobility (AAM) in recent years has given rise to the concept of low-altitude economy (LAE). However, the diverse flight activities associated with the emerging LAE applications in urban scenarios confront…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Yonghao Wang , Ruoguang Li , Di Wu , Jiaqi Chen , Yong Zeng

With 5G deployment and the evolution toward 6G, mobile networks must make decisions in highly dynamic environments under strict latency, energy, and spectrum constraints. Achieving this goal, however, depends on prior knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lei Li , Yanqing Xu , Ye Xue , Feng Yin , Chao Shen , Rui Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang