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Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a promising technique to leverage prior propagation knowledge in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), yet state-of-the-art grid-based CKM construction methods struggle to support efficient LAWN…

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Channel knowledge map (CKM) is a promising paradigm for environment-aware communications by establishing a deterministic mapping between physical locations and channel parameters. Existing CKM construction methods focus on quasi-static…

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Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a crucial technology for next-generation communication, enabling the construction of high-fidelity mappings between spatial environments and channel parameters via electromagnetic information…

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Channel knowledge map (CKM) emerges as a promising framework to acquire location-specific channel information without consuming wireless resources, creating new horizons for advanced wireless network design and optimization. Despite its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xu Shi , Haohan Wang , Yashuai Cao , Hengyu Zhang , Sufang Yang , Jintao Wang

Channel knowledge map (CKM) exploits environ-ment information to assist channel estimation during communi-cation. For clustered channels, which represent a typical type ofwireless propagation environment, there has been no researchdevoted…

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Accurate and efficient acquisition of wireless channel state information (CSI) is crucial to enhance the communication performance of wireless systems. However, with the continuous densification of wireless links, increased channel…

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This paper investigates the construction of channel knowledge map (CKM) from sparse channel measurements. Dif ferent from conventional two-/three-dimensional (2D/3D) CKM approaches assuming fixed base station configurations, we present a…

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This paper introduces a novel channel knowledge map (CKM)-assisted dual-domain tracking and predictive beamforming scheme for high-mobility wireless networks. The central premise is that the CKM integrates both the coordinate and beam…

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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

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is emerging as a critical enabler for environment-aware 6G networks, offering a site-specific database to significantly reduce pilot overhead. However, existing CKM construction methods typically rely on sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Le Zhao , Yining Wang , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei , Yong Zeng

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…

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Millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is expected to achieve enormous transmission rate, provided that the transmit and receive beams are properly aligned with the MIMO channel. However,…

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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…

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Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) is an emerging data-driven toolbox that captures our awareness of the wireless channel and enables efficient communication and resource allocation beyond the state of the art. In this work, we consider CKM for…

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Hybrid analog/digital beamforming is a promising technique to realize millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems cost-effectively. However, existing hybrid beamforming designs mainly rely on real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

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

The advancement of advanced air mobility (AAM) in recent years has given rise to the concept of low-altitude economy (LAE). However, the diverse flight activities associated with the emerging LAE applications in urban scenarios confront…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Yonghao Wang , Ruoguang Li , Di Wu , Jiaqi Chen , Yong Zeng

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-gain maps provide the channel gain between any two locations in a geographical region. They find numerous applications, from resource allocation and interference control to path planning for autonomous vehicles. Channel-gain map…

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Millimeter wave channels exhibit structure that allows beam alignment with fewer channel measurements than exhaustive beam search. From a compressed sensing (CS) perspective, the received channel measurements are usually obtained by…

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