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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…

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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

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

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 covariance matrix (CCM) is one critical parameter for designing the communications systems. In this paper, a novel framework of the deep learning (DL) based CCM estimation is proposed that exploits the perception of the transmission…

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We introduce a novel neural network, SkyReconNet, which combines the expanded receptive fields of dilated convolutional layers along with standard convolutions, to capture both the global and local features for reconstructing the missing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Reyhan D. Lambaga , Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

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…

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Radio maps reflect the spatial distribution of signal strength and are essential for applications like smart cities, IoT, and wireless network planning. However, reconstructing accurate radio maps from sparse measurements remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chuyun Deng , Na Liu , Wei Xie , Lianming Xu , Li Wang

Millimeter wave channels exhibit structure that allows beam alignment with fewer channel measurements than exhaustive beam search. From a compressed sensing (CS) perspective, the received channel measurements are usually obtained by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Yuyang Wang , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we propose a model-driven channel estimation method utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) derived from image super-resolution (SR). Instead of completely abandoning traditional communication modules as data-driven…

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We propose a network for semantic mapping called the Dense Dilated Convolutions Merging Network (DDCM-Net) to provide a deep learning approach that can recognize multi-scale and complex shaped objects with similar color and textures, such…

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Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is an MRI phase-based post-processing method that quantifies tissue magnetic susceptibility distributions. However, QSM acquisitions are relatively slow, even with parallel imaging. Incoherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Yang Gao , Martijn Cloos , Feng Liu , Stuart Crozier , G. Bruce Pike , Hongfu Sun

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

The semi-airborne transient electromagnetic method (SATEM) is capable of conducting rapid surveys over large-scale and hard-to-reach areas. However, the acquired signals are often contaminated by complex noise, which can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shuang Wang , Ming Guo , Xuben Wang , Fei Deng , Lifeng Mao , Bin Wang , Wenlong Gao

We describe a new class of subsampling techniques for CNNs, termed multisampling, that significantly increases the amount of information kept by feature maps through subsampling layers. One version of our method, which we call checkered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shayan Sadigh , Pradeep Sen

Gaussian random matrix (GRM) has been widely used to generate linear measurements in compressed sensing (CS) of natural images. However, there actually exist two disadvantages with GRM in practice. One is that GRM has large memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Wenxue Cui , Feng Jiang , Xinwei Gao , Wen Tao , Debin Zhao

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 present a deep learning (DL) algorithm for channel estimation in communication systems. We consider the time-frequency response of a fast fading communication channel as a two-dimensional image. The aim is to find the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mehran Soltani , Vahid Pourahmadi , Ali Mirzaei , Hamid Sheikhzadeh

Millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is expected to achieve enormous transmission rate, provided that the transmit and receive beams are properly aligned with the MIMO channel. However,…

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