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We show that coupling among multiple resonances can be conveniently introduced and controlled by boundary wave scattering. We demonstrate this principle in optical microcavities of quasi-circular shape, where the couplings of multiple modes…

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Wireless communication is susceptible to eavesdropping attacks because of its broadcast nature. This paper illustrates how interference can be used to counter eavesdropping and assist secrecy. In particular, a wire-tap channel with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks may include new passive technologies, such as ambient backscatter communication or the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to avoid the emission of waves and the corresponding energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Philippe Ratajczak , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

While scattered light conveys most of the information we perceive, scattering may also distort that information before it reaches our detectors. The problem is acute in many applications, such as in high-resolution microscopy of biological…

Scattering often limits the controlled delivery of light in applications such as biomedical imaging, optogenetics, optical trapping, and fiber-optic communication or imaging. Such scattering can be controlled by appropriately shaping the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alex Turpin , Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

Accessing sub-wavelength information about a scene from the far-field without invasive near-field manipulations is a fundamental challenge in wave engineering. Yet it is well understood that the dwell time of waves in complex media sets the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Michael del Hougne , Sylvain Gigan , Philipp del Hougne

Rapid emergence of smart mobility necessitates high-volume bursty data transmission over a single link between a target vehicle and its designated edge computing-enabled Base Station (BS) or Roadside Unit (RSU), which must be completed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qianyao Ren , Qingxiao Huang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Phone Lin , Yuguang Fang

Continued progress towards energy-neutral Internet of Things (IoT) nodes expose the wireless communication link as the dominant energy bottleneck. While low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies achieve long-range communication with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Tijl Schepens , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely adopted in wireless systems due to its flexibility, mobility, and agility. Nevertheless, a limited onboard battery greatly hinders UAV to prolong the serving time from communication tasks that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Hieu Tran-Dinh , Sumit Gautam , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication. Powering this massive number of embedded devices is a key challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

We realize scattering states in a lossy and chaotic two-dimensional microwave cavity which follow bundles of classical particle trajectories. To generate such particlelike scattering states we measure the system's transmission matrix and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Julian Böhm , Andre Brandstötter , Philipp Ambichl , Stefan Rotter , Ulrich Kuhl

Wavefront shaping (WFS) has emerged as powerful tool to control the propagation of diverse wave phenomena (light, sound, microwaves, ...) in disordered matter for applications including imaging, communication, energy transfer,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Philipp del Hougne , K. Brahima Yeo , Philippe Besnier , Matthieu Davy

Imaging through scattering media is a fundamental and pervasive challenge in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to astronomy. A promising strategy to overcome this challenge is wavefront modulation, which induces measurement diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mingyang Xie , Haiyun Guo , Brandon Y. Feng , Lingbo Jin , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher A. Metzler

We review our recent theoretical results on multiple scattering of waves in nonlinear disordered media. In particular, we discuss angular correlations of scattered waves, coherent backscattering cone, and the new phenomenon of temporal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Skipetrov , R. Maynard

Recent theoretical and experimental advances have shed light on the existence of so-called `perfectly transmitting' wavefronts with transmission coefficients close to 1 in strongly backscattering random media. These perfectly transmitting…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

It is straightforward to calculate the conductance of a quantum device once all its scattering centers are fully specified. However, to do this in reverse, i.e., to find information about the composition of scatterers in a device from its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 S. Mukim , F. P. Amorim , A. R. Rocha , R. B. Muniz , C. Lewenkopf , M. S. Ferreira

Diffuse phonon scattering strongly affects the phonon transport through a disordered interface. The often-used diffuse mismatch model assumes that phonons lose memory of their origin after being scattered by the interface. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Qichen Song , Gang Chen

We derive analytically, and validate numerically, the dispersion renormalization and attenuation of acoustic waves propagating through quenched disordered media in the long-wavelength limit. We consider weak spatial fluctuations in elastic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-12 Bingyu Cui , Yuqi Wang