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Channel knowledge map (CKM) is viewed as a digital twin of wireless channels, providing location-specific channel knowledge for environment-aware communications. A fundamental problem in CKM-assisted communications is how to construct the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wenjun Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Boyu Teng , Hao Wang , Jing Qian

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has recently emerged to facilitate the placement and trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. This paper investigates a CKM-assisted multi-UAV wireless network, by focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng

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

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

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) is a novel approach for achieving environment-aware communication and sensing. This paper presents an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-based CKM prototype system, demonstrating the mutualistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Chaoyue Zhang , Zhiwen Zhou , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Zaichen Zhang , Shi Jin

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

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) 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

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

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising technology to enable environment-aware wireless communications and sensing. Link state map (LSM) is one particular type of CKM that aims to learn the location-specific line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuhang Yang , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

In the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems, millimeter (mmWave) wave technology is a promising solution for offering additional bandwidth resources and mitigating spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Jiawei Zhang , Shihan Wang , Jienan Chen , Fan Wu , Jiyun Tao , Zheqi Gu

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

As one of the key usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) provides an efficient framework to achieve simultaneous wireless sensing and communication. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Di Wu , Zhuoyin Dai , Yong Zeng

Semantic knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xudong Long , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Yubin Zhao

Predictive millimeter-wave (mmWave) beamforming is a promising technique to enable low-latency and high-rate ground-air communications for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the high vulnerability of mmWave to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shiqi Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , 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

Achieving ubiquitous high-accuracy localization is crucial for next-generation wireless systems, yet remains challenging in multipath-rich urban environments. By exploiting the fine-grained multipath characteristics embedded in channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Tong An , Huan Lu , Jiayang Shi , Kai Yu , Rongrong Zhu , Bin Zheng , Jiwei Zhao , Haibo Zhou

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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