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Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a pivotal technology for environment-aware wireless communications and sensing, which provides a priori location-specific channel knowledge to facilitate network optimization. Efficient CKM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Zixiang Ren , Juncong Zhou , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Yong Zeng , Han Hu , Juyong Zhang , Rui Zhang

Accurate localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments remains challenging even with both angle-of-arrival (AoA) and time-of-arrival (ToA) measurements. In complex urban scenarios, the absence of line-of-sight (LoS) paths and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Chentao Hong , Di Wu , Liang Wu , Zaichen Zhang , 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

This paper studies a multi-UAV wireless network, in which multiple UAV users share the same spectrum to send individual messages to their respectively associated ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV users aim to optimize their locations to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional (3D) communication coverage for the UAVs in the sky is a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

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

In this paper, we study the path planning for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to minimize its flying distance from given initial to final locations, while ensuring a target link quality in terms of the large-scale channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

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

In this paper, a novel machine learning (ML) framework is proposed for enabling a predictive, efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (BSs), to provide on-demand wireless service to cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Qianqian Zhang , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Accurate and efficient acquisition of wireless channel state information (CSI) is crucial to enhance the communication performance of wireless systems. However, with the continuous densification of wireless links, increased channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Yuelong Qiu , Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Yanqun Tang , Nan Cheng , Chenhao Qi

In this paper, we study the trajectory optimization of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to sense the location of a target while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Environment-aware communication and sensing is one of the promising paradigm shifts towards 6G, which fully leverages prior information of the local wireless environment to optimize network performance. One of the key enablers for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Di Wu , Zijian Wu , Yuelong Qiu , Shen Fu , Yong Zeng

5G enabled maritime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is one of the important applications of 5G wireless network which requires minimum latency and higher reliability to support mission-critical applications. Therefore, lossless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Iftikhar Rasheed , Muhammad Asif , Asim Ihsan , Wali Ullah Khan , Manzoor Ahmed , Khaled Rabie

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has received widespread attention as an emerging enabling technology for environment-aware wireless communications. It involves the construction of databases containing location-specific channel knowledge, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Jue Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a novel technique for achieving environment awareness, and thereby improving the communication and sensing performance for wireless systems. A fundamental problem associated with CKM is how to construct a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Shiyu Wang , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

This paper investigates the construction of channel knowledge map (CKM) from sparse channel measurements. Dif ferent from conventional two-/three-dimensional (2D/3D) CKM approaches assuming fixed base station configurations, we present a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Juncong Zhou , Chao Hu , Guanlin Wu , Zixiang Ren , Han Hu , Juyong Zhang , Rui Zhang , Jie Xu

The ability to construct channel knowledge map (CKM) with high precision is essential for environment awareness in 6G wireless systems. However, most existing CKM construction methods formulate the task as an image super-resolution or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Yunzhe Zhu , Xuewen Liao , Zhenzhen Gao , Linzhou Zeng , Yong Zeng

Cellular networks are promising to support effective wireless communications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will help to enable various long-range UAV applications. However, these networks are optimized for terrestrial users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Yang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Lataief

In this paper, the problem of joint caching and resource allocation is investigated for a network of cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that service wireless ground users over the LTE licensed and unlicensed (LTE-U) bands. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin