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Cooperative positioning with multiple low earth orbit (LEO) satellites is promising in providing location-based services and enhancing satellite-terrestrial communication. However, positioning accuracy is greatly affected by inter-beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hongtao Xv , Yaohua Sun , Yafei Zhao , Mugen Peng , Shijie Zhang

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks connect millions of devices on Earth and offer various services, such as data communications, remote sensing, and data harvesting. As the number of services increases, LEO satellite networks will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Chang-Sik Choi

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite based non-terrestrial networks are a key theme of the upcoming 6G networks. These space networks are proposed to be used for high-mobility use-cases like airplanes and vehicles. The initial access process…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Ashutosh Balakrishnan , Pierre Popineau , Philippe Martins

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received great interest due to their scalability, energy efficiency, and low-cost deployment. By utilizing multi-hop communication, WSNs can cover a wide area using low transmission power without the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xinlei Liu , Andrey Belogaev , Jonathan Oostvogels , Bingwu Fang , Danny Hughes , Maarten Weyn , Jeroen Famaey

We develop a technique for blind signal identification of the Starlink downlink signal in the 10.7 to 12.7 GHz band and present a detailed picture of the signal's structure. Importantly, the signal characterization offered herein includes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Todd E. Humphreys , Peter A. Iannucci , Zacharias Komodromos , Andrew M. Graff

This paper considers symbol-level precoding (SLP) for multiuser multi-input single-output (MISO) downlink transmission with the aid of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Specifically, by assuming one-bit transmitted signals at the base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Silei Wang , Qiang Li , Mingjie Shao

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that has recently tackled a lot of interest in both academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Donatella Darsena , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

A pilot-assisted transmission (PAT) scheme is proposed for short blocklengths, where the pilots are used only to derive an initial channel estimate for the list construction step. The final decision of the message is obtained by applying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi

Uplink sensing is still a relatively unexplored scenario in integrated sensing and communication which can be used to improve positioning and sensing estimates. We introduce a pilot-based maximum likelihood, and a maximum a posteriori…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Enrique T. R. Pinto , Markku Juntti

Snapshot is a fundamental notion proposed for routing in mobile low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks which is characterized with predictable topology dynamics. Its distribution has a great impact on the routing performance and on-board…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Zhu Tang , Zhenqian Feng , Wanrong Yu , Baokang Zhao , Chunqing Wu

In wireless networks, Spectrum Efficiency (SE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) can be affected by the channel estimation that needs to be well designed in practice. In this paper, considering channel estimation error and non-ideal backhaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Yuhao Zhang , Qimei Cui , Ning Wang

In this paper, we investigate symbol-level precoding (SLP) and efficient decoding techniques for downlink transmission, where we focus on scenarios where the base station (BS) transmits multiple QAM constellation streams to users equipped…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 X. Tong , A. Li , L. Lei , X. Hu , F. Dong , S. Chatzinotas , C. Masouros

Detecting spoofing attacks to Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite systems is a cornerstone to assessing the authenticity of the received information and guaranteeing robust service delivery in several application domains. The solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jos Wigchert , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

This paper investigates the massive connectivity of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) for seamless global coverage. We propose to integrate the grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) paradigm with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingyu Zhou , Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Zhenyu Xiao , Symeon Chatzinotas , Jinhong Yuan , Björn Ottersten

End-to-end latency in large low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellations is dominated by propagation delay, making total delay roughly proportional to the network diameter, the longest shortest path in hops. Current inter-satellite link (ISL)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Arman Mollakhani , Jerayu Tiamraj , Shu-Jie Cao , Dongning Guo

A mega-constellation of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites has the potential to enable long-range communication with low latency. Integrating this with burgeoning unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted non-terrestrial networks will be a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ju-Hyung Lee , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Chai Ko

The aim of this paper is to enhance the quality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM estimation in dedicated vehicular communication transmission V2X networks. Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment WAVE as also known IEEE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Aymen Sassi , Faiza Charfi , Lotfi Kamoun , Yassin Elhillali , Atika Rivenq

Satellite quantum communications have rapidly evolved in the past few years, culminating in the proposal, development, and deployment of satellite missions dedicated to quantum key distribution and the realization of fundamental tests of…

The highly dynamic nature of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks introduces challenges that existing transport protocols fail to address, including non-congestive latency variation and loss, transient congestion hotspots, and frequent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Aiden Valentine , Ian Wakeman , George Parisis

This paper proposes a parametric channel estimation algorithm applicable to uplink of OFDMA systems with pseudo-random subchannelization. It exploits the hopping pilots to facilitate ESPRIT to estimate the delay subspace of the multipath…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-05 Xiaochuan Zhao , Tao Peng , Wenbo Wang