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Accurate localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments remains challenging even with both angle-of-arrival (AoA) and time-of-arrival (ToA) measurements. In complex urban scenarios, the absence of line-of-sight (LoS) paths and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Chentao Hong , Di Wu , Liang Wu , Zaichen Zhang , Yong Zeng

The rapid advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the evolution toward the sixth generation (6G) have positioned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as critical enablers of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). This work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Haijia Jin , Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui

In low altitude UAV communications, accurate channel estimation remains challenging due to the dynamic nature of air to ground links, exacerbated by high node mobility and the use of large scale antenna arrays, which introduce hybrid near…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenli Yuan , Kan Yu , Xiaowu Liu , Kaixuan Li , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

In 6G mobile communications, acquiring accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) becomes increasingly challenging due to the growing antenna array size and bandwidth. To alleviate the CSI feedback burden, the channel knowledge map…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Shengli Liu , Guanding Yu

Timely information delivery in low-altitude networks is critical for many time-sensitive applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, inspection, and surveillance. The key challenge lies in balancing three competing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bowen Li , Jiping Luo , Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as key enablers for low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), particularly when terrestrial networks are unavailable. In such scenarios, the environmental topology is typically unknown; hence,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Jihao Luo , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Le Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Guangxu Zhu , Dusit Niyato

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) are rapidly expanding with the growing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for logistics, surveillance, and emergency response. Reliable connectivity remains a critical yet challenging task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nguyen Duc Minh Quang , Chang Liu , Huy-Trung Nguyen , Shuangyang Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wei Xiang

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Yuelong Qiu , Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Yanqun Tang , Nan Cheng , Chenhao Qi

In this paper, a novel machine learning (ML) framework is proposed for enabling a predictive, efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (BSs), to provide on-demand wireless service to cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Qianqian Zhang , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

The Channel Knowledge Map (CKM) maps position information to channel state information, leveraging environmental knowledge to reduce signaling overhead in sixth-generation networks. However, constructing a reliable CKM demands substantial…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ting Wang , Chiya Zhang , Chang Liu , Zhuoyuan Hao , Rubing Han , Weizheng Zhang , Chunlong He

Radio maps are essential for enhancing wireless communications and localization. However, existing methods for constructing radio maps typically require costly calibration processes to collect location-labeled channel state information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zheng Xing , Junting Chen

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has been recently proposed to enable environment-aware communications by utilizing historical or simulation generated wireless channel data. This paper studies the construction of one particular type of CKM,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to perform data-driven air-to-ground (A2G) channel estimation for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless network. First, an effective channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Qianqian Zhang , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

Prediction of wireless channel gain (CG) across space is a necessary tool for many important wireless network design problems. In this paper, we develop prediction methods that use environment-specific features, namely building maps and CG…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

This article introduces a control-oriented low-altitude wireless network (LAWN) that integrates near-ground communications and remote estimation of the internal system state. This integration supports reliable networked control in dynamic…

5G enabled maritime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is one of the important applications of 5G wireless network which requires minimum latency and higher reliability to support mission-critical applications. Therefore, lossless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Iftikhar Rasheed , Muhammad Asif , Asim Ihsan , Wali Ullah Khan , Manzoor Ahmed , Khaled Rabie

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms utilizing collaborative beamforming (CB) in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) demonstrate significant potential for enhanced communication range, energy efficiency, and signal directivity through the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Chenbang Liu , Jiahui Li , Guannan Qu , Shuang Liang , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Juncong Zhou , Chao Hu , Guanlin Wu , Zixiang Ren , Han Hu , Juyong Zhang , Rui Zhang , Jie Xu

We consider a scenario where an UAV-mounted flying base station is providing data communication services to a number of radio nodes spread over the ground. We focus on the problem of resource-constrained UAV trajectory design with (i)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

Accurate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation is critical for next-generation wireless systems, enabling enhanced communication and sensing performance. Traditional model-based channel estimation methods suffer, however,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Seyed Alireza Javid , Nuria González-Prelcic