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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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Sixu Xiao , Yong Zeng , Haotian Rong , Yanqun Tang

The efficient construction of accurate channel knowledge maps (CKMs) is crucial for unleashing the full potential of environment-aware wireless networks, yet it remains a difficult ill-posed problem due to the sparsity of available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ziyu Huang , Yong Zeng , Shen Fu , Xiaoli Xu , Hongyang Du

Channel knowledge map (CKM) provides certain levels of channel state information (CSI) for an area of interest, serving as a critical enabler for environment-aware communications by reducing the overhead of frequent CSI acquisition.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Yancheng Wang , Wei Guo , Chuan Huang , Guanying Chen , Ye Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising technology to enable environment-aware wireless communications and sensing with greatly enhanced performance, by offering location-specific channel prior information for future wireless networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Shen Fu , Yong Zeng , Zijian Wu , Di Wu , Shi Jin , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Xiqi Gao

Channel knowledge map (CKM), which aims to directly reflect the intrinsic channel properties of the local wireless environment, is a novel technique for achieving environmentaware communication. In this paper, to alleviate the large…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Zhuoyin Dai , Di Wu , Zhenjun Dong , Kun Li , Dingyang Ding , Sihan Wang , Yong Zeng

This article proposes the concept of channel knowledge map (CKM) as an enabler towards environment-aware wireless communications. CKM is a site-specific database, tagged with the locations of the transmitters and/or receivers, that contains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu

This paper presents a novel two-stage method for constructing channel knowledge maps (CKMs) specifically for A2G (Aerial-to-Ground) channels in the presence of non-cooperative interfering nodes (INs). We first estimate the interfering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Le Zhao , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Jingxuan Huang , Yuan Li , Yan Zhang

In 6G mobile communications, acquiring accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) becomes increasingly challenging due to the growing antenna array size and bandwidth. To alleviate the CSI feedback burden, the channel knowledge map…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Shengli Liu , 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

In millimeter-wave communications, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems use large antenna arrays to achieve high gain and spectral efficiency. These massive MIMO systems employ hybrid beamformers to reduce power consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising paradigm shift towards environment-aware communication and sensing by providing location-specific prior channel knowledge before real-time communication. Although CKM is particularly appealing for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Zhuoyin Dai , Di Wu , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

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…

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Efficient resource allocation with hybrid precoder design is essential for massive MIMO systems operating in millimeter wave (mmW) domain. Owing to a higher energy efficiency and a lower complexity of a partially connected hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Salman Khalid , Waqas bin Abbas , Farhan Khalid

This paper proposes a deep learning-based beamforming design framework that directly maps a target beam pattern to optimal beamforming vectors across multiple antenna array architectures, including digital, analog, and hybrid beamforming.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hongpu Zhang , Shu Sun , Hangsong Yan , Jianhua Mo

Medical image segmentation is an essential prerequisite for developing healthcare systems, especially for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. On various medical image segmentation tasks, the u-shaped architecture, also known as U-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jieneng Chen , Yongyi Lu , Qihang Yu , Xiangde Luo , Ehsan Adeli , Yan Wang , Le Lu , Alan L. Yuille , Yuyin Zhou

This paper presents an online method for joint channel estimation and decoding in massive MIMO-OFDM systems using complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs). The study evaluates the performance of various CVNNs, such as the complex-valued…

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

The focus of this paper is on multi-user MIMO transmissions for millimeter wave systems with a hybrid precoding architecture at the base-station. To enable multi-user transmissions, the base-station uses a cell-specific codebook of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Miguel R. Castellanos , Vasanthan Raghavan , Jung H. Ryu , Ozge H. Koymen , Junyi Li , David J. Love , Borja Peleato

The Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) maps position information to channel state information, leveraging environmental knowledge to reduce signaling overhead in sixth-generation networks. However, constructing a reliable CKM demands substantial…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ting Wang , Chiya Zhang , Chang Liu , Zhuoyuan Hao , Rubing Han , Weizheng Zhang , Chunlong He

When Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) perform high-precision communication tasks, such as searching for users and providing emergency coverage, positioning errors between base stations and users make it challenging to deploy trajectory…

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