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Flying Networks (FNs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide on-demand wireless connectivity when network coverage is insufficient or the communications infrastructure is compromised, such as in disaster management scenarios.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ruben Queiros , Megumi Kaneko , Helder Fontes , Rui Campos

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

We study federated learning (FL), where power-limited wireless devices utilize their local datasets to collaboratively train a global model with the help of a remote parameter server (PS). The PS has access to the global model and shares it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the key technologies for the upcoming 6th Generation (6G) communications, which can improve the signal strength at the receivers by adding artificial propagation paths. In the context of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yi Yu , Rita Ibrahim , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

In beam-based massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, signals are processed spatially in the radio-frequency (RF) front-end and thereby the number of RF chains can be reduced to save hardware cost, power consumptions and pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Chen , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Positioning is expected to be a core function in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) to support communication and location-based services, such as autonomous driving, traffic control, etc. With the advent of low-cost reflective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Hui Chen , Pinjun Zheng , Musa Furkan Keskin , Tareq Al-Naffouri , Henk Wymeersch

High-frequency bands such as millimeter-wave and terahertz require narrow beams due to path loss and shadowing. Beam alignment (BA) methods allow the transceivers to adjust the directions of these beams efficiently by exploiting the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ozlem Yildiz , Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip

Communication in high frequencies such as millimeter wave and terahertz suffer from high path-loss and intense shadowing which necessitates beamforming for reliable data transmission. On the other hand, at high frequencies the channels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Abbas Khalili , Sundeep Rangan , Elza Erkip

Two subspace fitting approaches are proposed for wideband near-field localization. Unlike in conventional far-field systems, where distance and angle can be estimated separately, spherical wave propagation in near-field systems couples…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Ruiyun Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Yuanwei Liu , Zehui Xiong , Zhiyong Feng

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

A recent way to model and analyze downlink cellular networks is by using random spatial models. Assuming user equipment (UE) distribution to be uniform, the analysis is performed at a typical UE located at the origin. While this method of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Harpreet S. Dhillon , Radha Krishna Ganti , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper investigates the design of channel estimation and 3D localization algorithms in a challenging scenario, where a sub-connected planar extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communicates with multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Songyan Xue , Giuseppe Caire

Ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO) technology is a key enabler for 6G networks, offering exceptional high data rates in millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) frequency bands. The deployment of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

We consider a full-duplex (FD) multiuser system where an FD base station (BS) is designed to simultaneously serve both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) users in the presence of half-duplex eavesdroppers (Eves). The problem is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Oh-Soon Shin

This paper proposes a robust beamforming (BF) scheme to enhance physical layer security (PLS) of the downlink of a multibeam satellite system in the presence of either uncoordinated or coordinated eavesdroppers (Eves). Specifically, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jian Zhang , Min Lin , Jian Ouyang , Wei-Ping Zhu , Tomaso de Cola

Ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO) is the enabler of Terahertz (THz) communications in next-generation wireless networks. In THz UM-MIMO systems, a new paradigm of cross-field communications spanning from near-field to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Emil Björnson

Base station (BS) deployment remains a critical task with successive wireless communication generations and increasing data rates demands, while the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure is often underrated, yielding potential health…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Xueyun Long , Yueheng Li , Mario Pauli , Benjamin Nuss , Thomas Zwick

The next-generation (6G) wireless networks are expected to provide not only seamless and high data-rate communications, but also ubiquitous sensing services. By providing vast spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), ultra-massive multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Ruoxiao Cao , Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Shenghui Song , Kaibin Huang , Jun Zhang , Yi Gong , Khaled B. Letaief

Most localization methods for mixed far-field (FF) and near-field (NF) sources are based on uniform linear array (ULA) rather than sparse linear array (SLA). In this paper, we propose a localization method for mixed FF and NF sources based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Xiaohuan Wu , Wei-Ping Zhu , Jun Yan

This work investigates the degrees of freedom (DoF) of a downlink cache-aided cellular network where the locations of base stations (BSs) are modeled as a grid topology and users within a grid cell can only communicate with four nearby BSs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Youlong Cao , Meixia Tao