Research watch
Source-linked updates centered on wireless communications, physical-layer security, reinforcement learning, and convex optimization, with related work from advisors and selected emerging topics.
Updates shown: 63 updates
MOBILITY-AWARE BEAMFORMING
Keep the null useful as the channel moves
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An open-access study extends null-space expansion from fully digital arrays to phase-only analog beamforming and tests its response to mobility and phase quantization.
AERIAL NETWORK CONTROL
Place, power, or switch off
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A public preprint compares genetic search and proximal policy optimization for jointly placing, powering, and activating flying base stations under one simulated network model.
FULL-DUPLEX ISAC
Move isolation into the spectrum plan
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An open-access FR3 prototype separates sensing and communications by frequency, replacing active digital self-interference cancellation with more spectrum and RF hardware.
NEAR-FIELD BEAM TRAINING
Search angle and range in stages
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A public research record uses movable antenna positions and a hierarchical codebook to reduce joint angle–distance beam-training overhead in near-field systems.
SPATIAL–POLARIZATION DESIGN
Direction gain can create polarization loss
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A public preprint jointly optimizes rotatable antennas, polarization states, beamforming, and a dual-polarized RIS for symbiotic radio links.
MEASURED 5G RECEIVERS
Adapt the receiver to the radio site
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A public research record compares site-specific fine-tuning across neural, model-driven neural, and model-based receivers using measured dual-layer 5G NR uplinks.
FLUID ANTENNA SYSTEMS
Select ports and pilots from one belief
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A public preprint jointly selects fluid-antenna ports and pilot measurements from a spatiotemporal belief over unobserved channels.
LARGE-SCALE CONNECTIVITY
Density creates a connectivity phase transition
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A public preprint uses percolation theory to analyze when direct, gateway-assisted, and hybrid HAPS deployments form large-scale continuous coverage.
5G NR V2X SENSING
Add for velocity, subtract for clock drift
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A public preprint combines downlink and uplink carrier-frequency-offset estimates to separate radial Doppler from oscillator mismatch in a 5G NR V2X link.
EDGE CONTROL
Send an update when it changes the decision
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A public preprint co-designs remote-state updates and selective task offloading around realized edge-service utility rather than freshness alone.
MIMO-OFDM ISAC
Multiple streams reshape the sensing floor
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A public research record analyzes how multiple beamformed OFDM data streams reshape delay–Doppler sensing floors and filter tradeoffs in MIMO ISAC.
HIGH-MOBILITY CHANNELS
A generative prior for sparse OTFS estimation
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A public preprint applies a sparse Bayesian generative model to OTFS channel estimation for high-mobility wireless links.
PHYSICAL-LAYER SECURITY
Active surfaces meet selectable antenna ports
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A public preprint combines an active intelligent surface with selectable fluid-antenna ports and jointly optimizes them for secure wireless transmission.
SEMANTIC RF SENSING
Channel gains become scene captions
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A public preprint maps RF channel gains to natural-language scene descriptions and routes different sensing requests through prompt-conditioned adaptation modules.
CELL-FREE MMWAVE
Lower-band CSI guides high-band beams
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A public preprint uses a graph neural network to infer cell-free millimeter-wave beamforming from sub-6 GHz channel information.
CHANNEL MODELING
Large apertures create delay spread
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A public preprint shows how differential waveguide delays can make large pinching-antenna systems frequency-selective and distort frequency-flat rate estimates.
ADVISOR RESEARCH
Detection when radar and RIS phases are uncertain
Advisors' work
Prof. Paschalis C. Sofotasios and coauthors develop practical detectors for RIS-assisted radar-communication coexistence when interference phase and channel information are uncertain.
SECURE WIRELESS
Security roles reshape PASS control
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A public preprint frames pinching-antenna security around receiver roles, then jointly controls beams, artificial noise, and antenna positions.
PINCHING ANTENNAS
Sense, move, reconnect
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A sensing-assisted pinching-antenna prototype detects indoor blockers, moves along a dielectric waveguide, and restores a line-of-sight path.
EVENT-DRIVEN ISAC
One spike-based receiver, two radio tasks
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A spiking neural receiver jointly demodulates data and detects a passive target from a standardized UWB waveform while exposing the energy and accuracy costs of wideband RIS dispersion.
OFFLINE NETWORK CONTROL
Coordinate in training, act alone
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X-CODE reshapes an offline multi-agent training set with explainability signals so independently executing slice controllers can avoid resource conflicts without exchanging messages at deployment time.
SEMANTIC-AIDED DECODING
Let parity checks police the language model
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An LLM proposes character repairs for corrupted text, but LDPC parity constraints decide which suggestions become soft reliability updates for a conventional decoder.
ISAC SENSING PRIVACY
Shape the echoes an eavesdropper sees
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AmbSentry coordinates passive ambient IoT reflections with base-station beamforming to degrade unauthorized sensing while preserving legitimate communication and sensing constraints.
PINCHING-ANTENNA CONTROL
Serve users while the antenna moves
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A new pinching-antenna model compares stopping at selected positions with serving users continuously while the radiating element moves along its waveguide.
LEARNED CHANNEL STRUCTURE
Predict the field, then recover CSI
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A JEPA-based model predicts a shared propagation representation across CSI resolutions and uses it as a prior for reconstruction from sparse current pilots.
AGENTIC ISAC
Evaluate the loop, not the label
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A survey organizes agentic integrated sensing and communication as a six-stage loop and finds a large gap between claimed autonomy and reported evaluation.
NEAR-FIELD CHANNEL ESTIMATION
Use geometry before adding pilots
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A channel-map framework combines movable planar arrays, near-field geometry, and structured estimators to trade environmental knowledge for lower estimation cost.
MULTI-TIER OFFLOADING
Expose exact structure before coding
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An exact difference-of-convex representation replaces exponential-cone approximations with SOCP-compatible subproblems for space–air–ground offloading.
WIRELESS EDGE INFERENCE
Choose a decoding mode per user
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BALANCE jointly schedules users and edge compute while assigning autoregressive or speculative decoding under latency and memory constraints.
INTELLIGENT RAN CONTROL
Coordinate decisions across layers
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A dissertation-wide systems view connects programmable RAN control, reinforcement learning, RIS-assisted links, and terrestrial–non-terrestrial resource allocation.
EARLY URLLC FEEDBACK
Predict failure before full decoding
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A lightweight hybrid predictor estimates 5G uplink CRC outcomes directly from the received grid to support earlier URLLC link decisions.
5G ISAC TESTBED
Reuse the uplink as a radar
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An end-to-end O-RAN simulation testbed repurposes 5G uplink reference signals for low-altitude UAV detection and three-dimensional tracking.
ANTI-JAMMING RESILIENCE
Detect, misdirect, suppress, recover
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Seven works treat anti-jamming as a chain spanning defense models, detection, direction estimation, decoys, programmable links, resource allocation, and application performance.
CONVEX OPTIMIZATION
Structure survives the nonconvex model
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Six works show how convex subproblems, fractional programming, successive approximations, manifold methods, and physical models cooperate in practical wireless optimization.
ENERGY-CONSTRAINED WIRELESS
Energy autonomy is an end-to-end problem
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Seven works connect battery-free interfaces, exposure-aware backscatter, measured power transfer, programmable apertures, SWIPT, and wireless-powered edge computing.
MÉROUANE DEBBAH
Redesign the receiver, the channel, and the task together
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Twelve works made public in 2024–2025 connect new receiver physics, shape-adaptive arrays, secure propagation design, hybrid AI inference, edge control, and network fundamentals.
ONLINE EDGE OPTIMIZATION
Act now without pretending to know the future
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Seven works connect Lyapunov control, privacy-aware IIoT offloading, UAV edge service, federated-learning timescales, spatiotemporal scheduling, learned offloading, and computation reuse.
PASCHALIS C. SOFOTASIOS
Measure first, then make the model earn its assumptions
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Seven works connect channel measurement and generalized fading analysis with energy-aware communication, learned modulation, STAR-RIS multiple access, and adaptive vehicular security.
PHYSICAL-LAYER SECURITY
Security starts with the threat model
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Nine works show how geometry, programmable surfaces, sensing and semantic objectives, learned beamforming, and measurements reshape physical-layer security.
PINCHING ANTENNAS
Link-level hardware evidence, bounded claim
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Reviews geometry-aware directional radiation and a 60 GHz video prototype without turning one link-level demonstration into field-maturity evidence.
PINCHING ANTENNAS
Mobility becomes part of learning
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Introduces finite antenna speed into federated-learning device selection and placement, while keeping convergence and age gains labeled as simulation results.
PINCHING ANTENNAS
A recent access-control preprint
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Studies blockage-aware EDMA with outage constraints, PGD, and SCA, clearly limiting near-optimality to the preprint’s tested numerical settings.
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Learn only what structure cannot settle
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Ten works distinguish policy learning, game-guided control, learned physical-layer solvers, foundation models, and analytical online optimization across wireless systems.
SAMI MUHAIDAT
Intelligence belongs where the uncertainty enters
Advisors' work
Eight works place learning and optimization at distinct interfaces, from adaptive network defense and spatial modulation to edge training, semantic coding, and structured signal detection.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
The radio becomes part of the algorithm
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Ten works connect continuous and shape-changing apertures, unconventional receivers, pinching-antenna sensing, wireless foundation models, uncertainty, and task-aware links.
EDGE + NON-TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS
Remove the work the network never needed
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Five works involving Dr. Xingqiu He connect computation reuse, age-aware scheduling, green O-RAN, semantic satellite slicing, and planned mobility.
WIRELESS AI
Keep the model, preserve the structure
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Six works involving Dr. Yuzhi Yang connect edge-cloud generative AI, semantic sensing, RIS-assisted computation, channel estimation, beam control, and hybrid receivers.
RECENT ADVISOR WORK
Geometry reaches the hardware bench
Advisors' work
Highlights Zhiguo Ding’s geometry-aware channel model and 60 GHz prototype while distinguishing link-level hardware evidence from scalable network validation.
ZHIGUO DING
Access design becomes energy accounting
Advisors' work
Seven works connect NOMA, ambient backscatter, continuous apertures, wireless power, reconfigurable surfaces, edge computing, and federated learning through joint resource accounting.
RECENT ADVISOR WORK
Replacing ideal motion with a constraint
Advisors' work
Summarizes finite-speed pinching-antenna federated learning, where coalition selection and branch-and-bound placement are evaluated only through simulation.
RECENT ADVISOR WORK
Blockage-aware access design
Advisors' work
Summarizes outage-constrained pinching-antenna EDMA under blockage, scattering, and attenuation, with approximation and simulation limits kept visible.
DISTRIBUTED + GPU SYSTEMS
Move state without stopping useful work
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Three publications involving Zhuobin Huang remove state-transfer and GPU-recovery stalls by redesigning the boundary between runtimes and operating systems.
PROFESSOR RESEARCH
AI-native wireless at several scales
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Tracks automated 6G security, diffusion receivers, and compact-model reasoning while separating dataset, simulation, and proof-of-concept evidence from deployment claims.
ADVISOR RESEARCH
Security under explicit assumptions
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Examines learned jamming, sensing imperfections, and RIS time reversal through public numerical evidence, with hardware and field-validation limits stated explicitly.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Foundation before hype
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Builds a careful pinching-antenna baseline from waveguide modeling, placement rules, and secrecy design, all bounded by analytical or simulated evidence.
ADVISOR RESEARCH
Resilience across network layers
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Connects adversarial links, automated security, LEO routing, slice risk, and RIS while keeping every reported gain tied to its evaluation setting.
FIELD RETROSPECTIVE
From links to LEO infrastructure
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Compares resilience at three layers: learned anti-jamming links, smart-jamming-aware LEO routes, and cross-slice service-chain placement under modeled risk.
COLLABORATOR RESEARCH
Stress-testing learned defenses
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Shows how black-box jammers, baited rewards, and sensing errors can undermine learned defenses across three public simulation studies.
FIELD UPDATE
Energy and latency in one queueing model
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Explains a Lyapunov-based online scheduler for wireless-powered edge computing and separates its stated latency-energy guarantees from simulation-only validation.
COLLABORATOR RESEARCH
Optimization across edge and orbit
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Pairs queue-aware wireless-powered edge scheduling with predictive LEO handover, highlighting optimization structure and the absence of operational deployment evidence.
COLLABORATOR RESEARCH
Generative models meet signal processing
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Follows a path from energy-aware edge scheduling to diffusion receivers that model uneven pilot reliability, with results limited to public simulations.
ADVISOR RESEARCH
An early pinching-antenna research arc
Advisors' work
Traces pinching antennas from a waveguide system model through closed-form placement and secrecy control, before the field’s latest prototype claims.
COLLABORATOR RESEARCH
Systems evidence from SIGCOMM
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Explains CEIO’s NIC-side credits and elastic buffering, including reported throughput and tail-latency gains from a bounded two-server 200 Gb/s testbed.
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