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Despite the popularity of reinforcement learning (RL) in wireless networks, existing approaches that rely on model-free RL (MFRL) and model-based RL (MBRL) are data inefficient and short-sighted. Such RL-based solutions cannot generalize to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Lingyi Wang , Rashed Shelim , Walid Saad , Naren Ramakrishnan

Creating a digital world that closely mimics the real world with its many complex interactions and outcomes is possible today through advanced emulation software and ubiquitous computing power. Such a software-based emulation of an entity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Batool Salehi , Utku Demir , Debashri Roy , Suyash Pradhan , Jennifer Dy , Stratis Ioannidis , Kaushik Chowdhury

Innovation in the physical layer of communication systems has traditionally been achieved by breaking down the transceivers into sets of processing blocks, each optimized independently based on mathematical models. Conversely, deep learning…

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Network digital twin (NDT) models are virtual models that replicate the behavior of physical communication networks and are considered a key technology component to enable novel features and capabilities in future 6G networks. In this work,…

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Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. However, most of the existing codebooks adopt pre-defined beams that focus mainly on improving the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Yu Zhang , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Network digital twins (NDTs) facilitate the estimation of key performance indicators (KPIs) before physically implementing a network, thereby enabling efficient optimization of the network configuration. In this paper, we propose a…

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Digital twins are becoming an important tool for designing, developing, testing, and optimizing next-generation wireless communication systems. Over the past decade, system softwarization has become a reality, and wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Anil Gurses , Mihail L. Sichitiu

Digital Twins (DTs) are set to become a key enabling technology in future wireless networks, with their use in network management increasing significantly. We developed a DT framework that leverages the heterogeneity of network access…

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This paper explores a novel research direction where a digital twin is leveraged to assist the beamforming design for an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. In this setup, a base station designs joint communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Shuaifeng Jiang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Creating functional Digital Twins, simulatable 3D replicas of the real world, is a central challenge in computer vision. Current methods like NeRF produce visually rich but functionally incomplete twins. The key barrier is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhe Chen , Peilin Zheng , Wenshuo Chen , Xiucheng Wang , Yutao Yue , Nan Cheng

Digital twins (DTs) constitute a critical link between the real-world and the metaverse. To guarantee a robust connection between these two worlds, DTs should maintain accurate representations of the physical applications, while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Omar Hashash , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad

The ability to train ever-larger neural networks brings artificial intelligence to the forefront of scientific and technical discoveries. However, their exponentially increasing size creates a proportionally greater demand for energy and…

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) has been widely adopted in the design of intelligent communication systems thanks to its strong learning ability and low testing complexity. However, most current offline DNN-based methods still suffer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this work, we consider a mobile edge computing system with both ultra-reliable and low-latency communications services and delay tolerant services. We aim to minimize the normalized energy consumption, defined as the energy consumption…

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Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the application of deep neural networks (DNNs) for receiver design, which can potentially be applied in complex environments without relying on knowledge of the channel model. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tomer Raviv , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Yonina C. Eldar , Nir Shlezinger

Digital network twins (DNTs), by representing a physical network using a virtual model, offer significant benefits such as streamlined network development, enhanced productivity, and cost reduction for next-generation (nextG) communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zifan Zhang , Zhiyuan Peng , Hanzhi Yu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

Existing communication systems exhibit inherent limitations in translating theory to practice when handling the complexity of optimization for emerging wireless applications with high degrees of freedom. Deep learning has a strong potential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Tugba Erpek , Timothy J. O'Shea , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi , T. Charles Clancy

Joint base station (BS) association and beam selection in multi-UAV aerial corridors constitutes a challenging radio resource management (RRM) problem. It is driven by high-dimensional action spaces, need for substantial overhead to acquire…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Pulok Tarafder , Zoheb Hassan , Imtiaz Ahmed , Danda B. Rawat , Kamrul Hasan , Cong Pu

We introduce a novel physical layer scheme for single user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communications based on unsupervised deep learning using an autoencoder. This method extends prior work on the joint optimization of physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Timothy J. O'Shea , Tugba Erpek , T. Charles Clancy

The stringent performance requirements of future wireless networks, such as ultra-high data rates, extremely high reliability and low latency, are spurring worldwide studies on defining the next-generation multiple-input multiple-output…

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