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Accurate channel modeling has become critical for evaluating multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) performance, especially as 5G standardization matures and efforts toward 6G begin. Recent studies within the 3rd Generation Partnership…
Finetuning wireless receivers to a specific deployment scenario can yield significant error-rate performance improvements without increasing processing complexity. However, site-specific finetuning has so far only been demonstrated on…
Site-specific channel inference plays a critical role in the design and evaluation of next-generation wireless communication systems by considering the surrounding propagation environment. However, traditional methods are unscalable.…
3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Technical Report (TR) 38.901 channel models (Releases 15-19) are widely used for physical-layer design and system-level evaluation in dense urban outdoor-to-indoor (O2I) and indoor environments.…
Cyber-physical systems have recently been used in several areas (such as connected and autonomous vehicles) due to their high maneuverability. On the other hand, they are susceptible to cyber-attacks. Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting…
Recent research shows that integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into wireless communication systems can significantly improve spectral efficiency. However, most AI-based receiver studies rely on simulated radio channel data for both…
5G New Radio (NR) is a key enabler of accurate positioning in smart cities and smart factories. This paper presents the experimental results from three 5G positioning testbeds running open-source OpenAirInterface (OAI) gNB and Core Network…
To decrease the training overhead and improve the channel estimation accuracy in uplink cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), a superimposed-segment training design is proposed. The core idea of the proposal is that each mobile station…
Evaluating cellular systems, from 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G-Advanced to 6G, is challenging because the performance emerges from the tight coupling of propagation, beam management, scheduling, and higher-layer interactions. System-level…
The performance characterization of communication systems assisted by large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) significantly depends on the adopted models for the underlying channels. Under unrealistic channel models, the system…
5G for Railways (5G-R) is globally recognized as a promising next-generation railway communication system designed to meet increasing demands. Channel modeling serves as foundation for communication system design, with tapped delay line…
Cellular networks of massive MIMO base-stations employing TDD/OFDM and relying on uplink training for both downlink and uplink transmission are viewed as an attractive candidate for 5G deployments, as they promise high area spectral and…
This paper presents a novel and efficient wireless channel estimation scheme based on a tapped delay line (TDL) model of wireless signal propagation, where a data-driven machine learning approach is used to estimate the path delays and…
The growing performance demands and higher deployment densities of next-generation wireless systems emphasize the importance of adopting strategies to manage the energy efficiency of mobile networks. In this demo, we showcase a framework…
Ray tracing (RT) has recently gained renewed interest in wireless communications, driven by its integration into digital twin (DT) frameworks for site specific channel modeling. Several previous studies have validated RT at the channel…
In this paper, we present a new performance bound for uplink channel estimation (CE) accuracy in the Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system. The proposed approach is based on noise power prediction after the CE unit. Our…
Ultra-dense fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks leverage spectrum sharing and frequency reuse to enhance throughput, but face unpredictable in-band uplink (UL) interference challenges that significantly degrade Signal to Interference…
Communication-aware robot planning requires accurate predictions of wireless network performance. Current approaches rely on channel-level metrics such as received signal strength and signal-to-noise ratio, assuming these translate reliably…
5G cellular systems depend on the timely exchange of feedback control information between the user equipment and the base station. Proper decoding of this control information is necessary to set up and sustain high throughput radio links.…
Traditional approaches in the analysis of downlink systems decouple the precoding and the channel estimation problems. However, in cellular systems with mobile users, these two problems are in fact tightly coupled. In this paper, this…