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Current maritime communications mainly rely on satellites having meager transmission resources, hence suffering from poorer performance than modern terrestrial wireless networks. With the growth of transcontinental air traffic, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dong Liu , Jiankang Zhang , Jingjing Cui , Soon-Xin Ng , Robert G. Maunder , Lajos Hanzo

This paper presents a novel approach for the joint design of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and a transmitter-receiver pair that are trained together as a set of deep neural networks (DNNs) to optimize the end-to-end…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Aylin Yener

This paper introduces a deep learning approach to dynamic spectrum access, leveraging the synergy of multi-modal image and spectrum data for the identification of potential transmitters. We consider an edge device equipped with a camera…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) is an emerging design that consists of multiple layers of metasurfaces. A SIM enables holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) precoding in the wave domain, which results in the reduction of…

Existing communication systems aim to reconstruct the information at the receiver side, and are known as reconstruction-oriented communications. This approach often falls short in meeting the real-time, task-specific demands of modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yufeng Diao , Yichi Zhang , Changyang She , Philip Guodong Zhao , Emma Liying Li

We develop data-driven algorithms for reachability analysis and control of systems with a priori unknown nonlinear dynamics. The resulting algorithms not only are suitable for settings with real-time requirements but also provide provable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Franck Djeumou , Abraham P. Vinod , Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot , Ufuk Topcu

Object-goal navigation is a crucial engineering task for the community of embodied navigation; it involves navigating to an instance of a specified object category within unseen environments. Although extensive investigations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Leyuan Sun , Asako Kanezaki , Guillaume Caron , Yusuke Yoshiyasu

In post-disaster space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs), terrestrial infrastructure is often impaired, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must rapidly restore connectivity for mission-critical ground terminals in cluttered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Liangshun Wu , Wen Chen , Shunqing Zhang , Yajun Wang , Kunlun Wang

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for edge inference, where a low-end edge device transmits the extracted feature vector of a local data sample to a powerful edge server for processing. It is critical to encode the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Machine learning (ML) applications for wireless communications have gained momentum on the standardization discussions for 5G advanced and beyond. One of the biggest challenges for real world ML deployment is the need for labeled signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Brenda Vilas Boas , Wolfgang Zirwas , Martin Haardt

Future wireless systems are trending towards higher carrier frequencies that offer larger communication bandwidth but necessitate the use of large antenna arrays. Existing signal processing techniques for channel estimation do not scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Akash Doshi , Manan Gupta , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Beamforming techniques are proposed for a joint multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) radar-communication (RadCom) system, where a single device acts both as a radar and a communication base station (BS) by simultaneously communicating with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Ang Li , Huafei Sun , Lajos Hanzo

The development of emerging applications, such as autonomous transportation systems, are expected to result in an explosive growth in mobile data traffic. As the available spectrum resource becomes more and more scarce, there is a growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Wanting Yang , Zi Qin Liew , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuefen Chi , Xianbin Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

Learning world models offers a promising avenue for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning with sparse rewards. By allowing agents to plan actions or exploratory goals without direct interaction with the environment, world models enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yuanlin Duan , Wensen Mao , He Zhu

Tokens are becoming the basic units through which foundation models represent and process information for understanding and inference. However, traditional wireless communication, centered on bit-level fidelity, faces a mismatch between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sige Liu , Kezhi Wang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

We consider stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) as a tool to improve the performance of bistatic integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) schemes. To that end, we optimize the SIMs and design a radar parameter estimation (RPE)…

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

The emergence of dense, mission-driven aerial networks supporting the low-altitude economy presents unique communication challenges, including extreme channel dynamics and severe cross-tier interference. Traditional reactive communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Junting Chen , Bowen Li , Hao Sun , Shuguang Cui , Nikolaos Pappas