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With low-altitude economies emerging as a pivotal sector, this study explores an integrated sensing, communication, and computation system over low-altitude wireless networks. A full-duplex autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) operates as an…

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Optical information processing and computing can potentially offer enhanced performance, scalability and energy efficiency. However, achieving nonlinearity-a critical component of computation-remains challenging in the optical domain. Here…

Cloud-based computing technology is one of the most significant technical advents of the last decade and extension of this facility towards access networks by aggregation of cloudlets is a step further. To fulfill the ravenous demand for…

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Optical communication is the standard for high-bandwidth information transfer in today's digital age. The increasing demand for bandwidth has led to the maturation of coherent transceivers that use phase- and amplitude-modulated optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 John Crossman , Spencer Dimitroff , Lukasz Cincio , Mohan Sarovar

We propose an all-optical networking solution for a wide area network (WAN) based on the notion of multipoint-to-multipoint lightpaths that, for short, we call "multipaths". A multipath concentrates the traffic of a group of source nodes on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Davide Cuda , Raluca-Maria Indre , Esther Le Rouzic , James Roberts

Efficient network management in optical backbone networks is crucial for handling continuous traffic growth. In this work, we address the challenges of managing dynamic traffic in C- and C+L-band optical backbone networks while exploring…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved into a critical technology; however, electrical hardware struggles to keep pace with the exponential growth of AI models. Free space optical hardware provides alternative approaches for…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Xue Dong , Kai Lion , Fei Xia , YoonSeok Baek , Ziao Wang , Niao He , Sylvain Gigan

Electrons and photons offer complementary strengths for information processing. Photons are excellent for communication, while electrons are superior for computation and memory. Cognition requires distributed computation to be communicated…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Jeffrey M. Shainline

Optical neural networks have long cast attention nowadays. Like other optical structured neural networks, fiber neural networks which utilize the mechanism of light transmission to compute can take great advantages in both computing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Yubin Zang , Zuxing Zhang , Simin Li , Fangzheng Zhang , Hongwei Chen

Multipathing in communication networks is gaining momentum due to its attractive features of increased reliability, throughput, fault tolerance, and load balancing capabilities. In particular, wireless environments and datacenters are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Sana Habib , Junaid Qadir , Anwaar Ali , Durdana Habib , Ming Li , Arjuna Sathiaseelan

As the explosive growth of visual data increasingly strains the latency and energy limits of conventional electronic computing, optical analog computing has re-emerged as a disruptive paradigm for zero-power, speed-of-light information…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tingting Liu , Jumin Qiu , Xintong Shi , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao

Future wireless networks are expected to support diverse mobile services, including artificial intelligence (AI) services and ubiquitous data transmissions. Federated learning (FL), as a revolutionary learning approach, enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zehong Lin , Hang Liu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In large-scale distributed LLM training, communication between devices becomes the key performance bottleneck. Chiplet technology can integrate multiple dies into a package to scale-up node performance with higher bandwidth. Meanwhile,…

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Ophthalmic image segmentation serves as a critical foundation for ocular disease diagnosis. Although fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly employed for segmentation, they are constrained by inductive biases and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zunjie Xiao , Xiaoqing Zhang , Risa Higashita , Jiang Liu

Modern integrated circuits are essentially two-dimensional (2D). Partial three-dimensional (3D) integration and 3D-transistor-level integrated circuits have long been anticipated as routes to improve the performance, cost and size of…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-21 Logan G. Wright , William H. Renninger , Frank W. Wise

This paper proposes a new class of hardware accelerators to alleviate bottlenecks in the acquisition, analytics, storage and computation of information carried by wideband streaming signals.

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Bahram Jalali , Ata Mahjoubfar

To facilitate the development of Internet of Things (IoT) services, tremendous IoT devices are deployed in the wireless network to collect and pass data to the server for further processing. Aiming at improving the data sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaoyang Li , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang , Zhisheng Niu

Software-implementation, via neural networks, of brain-inspired computing approaches underlie many important modern-day computational tasks, from image processing to speech recognition, artificial intelligence and deep learning…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-19 J. Feldmann , N. Youngblood , C. D. Wright , H. Bhaskaran , W. H. P. Pernice

Fiber-optical networks are a crucial telecommunication infrastructure in society. Wavelength division multiplexing allows for transmitting parallel data streams over the fiber bandwidth, and coherent detection enables the use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Lars Lundberg , Mikael Mazur , Ali Mirani , Benjamin Foo , Jochen Schröder , Victor Torres-Company , Magnus Karlsson , Peter A. Andrekson

Mobile devices increasingly require the parallel execution of several computing tasks offloaded at the wireless edge. Existing communication systems only support parallel transmissions at the bit level, which fundamentally limits the number…

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