Top Research Papers on Wireless Communication

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This special issue features a collection of inter-related papers with the intention to cover all necessary multidisciplinary challenges to realize optical wireless networks.

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Federated learning and wireless communications, including basic principles of federated learning, efficient communications for training a federatedLearning model, and federatedlearning for intelligent wireless applications.

The digital version of metasurface, information metAsurface (IM), is systematically introduced with its application in wireless communications and the basic concepts and principles of IMs and their programmable features are presented.

An SVC network based on keypoint transmission is established, which dramatically reduces transmission resources while only losing detailed expressions, and the proposed wireless semantic communication system can remarkably improve transmission efficiency.

A novel FL framework is introduced, called collaborative FL, which enables edge devices to implement FL with less reliance on a central controller, and a number of communication techniques are proposed so as to improve CFL performance.

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The hardware architecture and channel characterization for MA systems are presented, based on which the variation of the channel gain with respect to the MA's position is illustrated, and the performance advantages of MAs over conventional fixed-position antennas are analyzed.

A detailed survey of features and techniques that can be used in the Physical-Layer Authentication schemes, and divides the existing PLA schemes into two categories: passive and active schemes.

The research on optical wireless communication (OWC) has been going on for more than two decades. Particularly, visible light communication (VLC), as a means of OWC combining communication with illumination, has been regarded as a promising indoor high-speed wireless approach for short-distance access. Recently, lightwave, millimeter-wave (mmWave), terahertz (THz) and other spectrum mediums are considered as potential candidates for beyond fifth-generation/sixth-generation (B5G/6G) mobile communication networks. On the basis of previous studies, this review focuses on revealing how the researc...

This article begins with an overview of the salient characteristics in the modeling of 6G wireless channels, then discusses the advancement of channel modeling and characteristics analysis for next-generation communication systems, and outlines the research challenges.

A prototype of PoM wireless communications based on a digital coding metasurface that can dynamically control the polarization of electromagnetic waves in a certain frequency band is demonstrated.

The concept of massive access wireless communication and of the contemporary research on this important topic are presented, which exhibits a clean break with current networks by potentially supporting millions of devices in each cellular network.

Significant technological breakthroughs to achieve connectivity goals within 6G include: a network operating at the THz band with much wider spectrum resources, intelligent communication environments that enable a wireless propagation environment with active signal transmission and reception, and pervasive artificial intelligence.

Underwater wireless communication (UWC) networks have attracted substantial attention in recent years. UWC can facilitate critical emerging services including communications for: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), environmental monitoring, surveillance, navigation, and exploration. Most UWC devices are battery-powered, where recharging/swapping batteries is not straightforward. Since the reliability of a UWC network depends on limited energy storage, energy-efficient communication is critical for its operation. Whilst communication range and data rate ...

A comprehensive review/survey about the key enabling technologies for 6G networks, which include a discussion about the main operation principles of each technology, envisioned potential applications, current state-of-the-art research, and the related technical challenges are presented.

Terahertz (THz) technology is probably best known to the public as a powerful tool for imaging, since it has been applied in security and medical scanning, resulting in numerous impressive images that would be unobtainable using other technologies. With the roll-out of 5G mobile networks, research into 6G wireless communications is heating up. It is envisioned that THz technology will be used for 6G and future wireless communications. In this paper, we review how THz technology has been employed for imaging and wireless communications, identify state-of-the-art developments in the field, and t...

A thorough treatment of UAV wireless communications and networking research challenges and opportunities, Featuring discussion of practical applications including drone delivery systems, public safety, IoT, virtual reality, and smart cities, is provided.

A new type of RIS is proposed, called active RIS, where each RE is assisted by active loads (negative resistance), that reflect and amplify the incident signal instead of only reflecting it with the adjustable phase shift as in the case of a passive RIS.

A comprehensive survey of existing works on the application of blockchain and AI to 6G wireless communications is provided to shed new light on the research of this newly emerging area and serve as a roadmap for future studies.

This survey provides a comprehensive review in the domain of physical layer authentication (PLA) in wireless communication systems, including the concepts, several key techniques of typical PLA architectures as well as future challenges and research trends in more sophisticated communication systems.

This paper provides a tutorial overview of IRS-aided wireless communications, and elaborate its reflection and channel models, hardware architecture and practical constraints, as well as various appealing applications in wireless networks.

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal prorogation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements, IRS is capable of dynamically altering wireless channels to enhance the communication performance. It is thus expected that the new IRS-aided hybrid wireless network comprising both active and passive components will be highly promising to achieve a sustainable capacity growth cost-effectively in the future. Despite its great potential, IRS faces new challenges to be effi...

An overview of the technology platforms that make up 5G and the role of ceramic oxide and nitride materials in enabling this technology are examined and its historical use in wireless telephony and its projected future use in 5G systems are examined.

This study observed that while numerous works focused on cellular technologies to enable connectivity for aerial platforms, a single wireless technology is not sufficient to meet the stringent connectivity demands of the aerial use cases, especially for the piloting operations.

Some of the prominent challenges and possible solutions which are at the forefront of current research, and which will contribute to the architecture of wireless platforms beyond 5G are discussed.

A pair of dominant methodologies of using DL for wireless communications are investigated, including DL-based architecture design, which breaks the classical model-based block design rule of wireless communications in the past decades.

Nine challenges to be addressed by the interdisciplinary areas of AI/ML and wireless communications, with particular focus on the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks are presented, including computation in AI, distributed neural networks and learning, and semantic communications.

The review mainly focuses on future challenges and guidelines for designing MXene-based materials for industrial application and foundational research and the relationship governing the structural design and the effectiveness for wireless communication, EMI shielding, and EM wave absorption.

Near-field communication emerged as a high-security, wireless, short-range, data exchange technology nearly two decades ago; its ability to simultaneously transfer power and data between devices offers exciting opportunities for the design of miniature, battery-free and disposable sensing systems in health care and food quality monitoring.

A spatial modulation module is proposed to scale the latent representations according to channel state information, which enhances the ability of a single model to deal with various channel conditions, and attains better performance for different image resolutions, distortion metrics, and channel conditions.

A novel centralized fusion algorithm is designed to determine the fusion weight during the global update, which aims to make full use of the fresh information contained in the uploaded local models while avoiding the biased convergence.

An overview of the recent developments in UWOC systems, covering aspects about the system transmitters and receivers, advanced modulation formats and underwater channels and some key technologies to improve transmission capacity are classified and summarized to provide guidance for system design.

An efficient algorithm is proposed to obtain a high-quality solution by jointly designing the pilot sequences, power-splitting ratio, and training patterns and reveals that the STAR-RIS under the TS protocol achieves a smaller channel estimation error than the ES case.

Three fundamental physical-layer challenges for the incorporation of RISs into wireless networks, namely, channel state information acquisition, passive information transfer, and low-complexity robust system design are focused on.

This letter investigates the use of active elements in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to overcome the double-fading problem introduced in the RIS-aided link in a wireless communications system and proposes a practical design for active RIS.

It is proved that GNNs achieve near-optimal performance in wireless networks with much fewer training samples than traditional neural architectures and proposed design guidelines are proposed, which includes graph modeling, neural architecture design, and theory-guided performance enhancement.

A unified framework of the blockchain radio access network (B-RAN) is proposed as a trustworthy and secure paradigm for 6G networking by utilizing blockchain technologies with enhanced efficiency and security.

To exploit the full potential of symbiotic radio, a systematic view is provided and three fundamental tasks in SR are addressed, enhancing the backscattering link via active load; achieving highly reliable communications through joint decoding; and capturing PTx’s RF signals using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.

This article comprehensively survey key technologies in 6G THz wireless communication systems, focusing on THz channel modeling, multibeam antenna design, front-end chip design, baseband signal processing, and resource management.