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Learning or Modeling? Virtual XL-RIS Observation Reconstruction for Near-Field Sensing

Tuo Wu, Jie Tang, Jiacheng Wang +5

A passive extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) offers a position-sensitive aperture for near-field sensing, but its element-wise signals are not direct…

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Sparse Channel Acquisition in Aging Fluid Antenna Systems: A Reliability-Calibrated Posterior Reconstruction Approach

Xiaokai Song, Jie Tang, Tuo Wu +5

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) exploit port-domain diversity within a compact aperture, but their gain can be lost if the receiver has to scan too many ports before data transmission…

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Reconfiguring Sparse Apertures: Partial-Mobility Planar FAS for 2-D DOA Estimation

Xiaokai Song, Tuo Wu, Jie Tang +3

Classical sparse arrays enlarge the sensing aperture under limited element and radio-frequency (RF) chain budgets, but their fixed geometries impose a persistent tradeoff between w…

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Electromagnetic Twin: From Sparse Measurements to Persistent Wireless Intelligence

Tuo Wu, Lifeng Mai, Jie Tang +7

Radio maps and channel knowledge maps provide reusable propagation knowledge, but a stored map can become locally outdated after persistent changes to doors, partitions, furniture,…

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Electromagnetic-Twin Channel Estimation: From Sparse Pilots to Persistent CSI

Tuo Wu, K. C. Ho

Each repeated pilot block is typically treated as a separate channel-estimation problem, although much of the angle--delay state persists across updates. This paper defines an elec…

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From Sparse Probes to Sum-Rate Maximization: Electromagnetic Twin Beamforming

Tuo Wu, Kangda Zhi, Jie Tang +3

Probing every candidate location at each wireless-map update is costly. This letter develops electromagnetic-twin (ET) beamforming that converts sparse spatial probes into a sum-ra…

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Electromagnetic Twin: Completing the Wireless World from Sparse Channel Evidence

Tuo Wu, Jie Tang, Kangda Zhi +5

Acquiring dense channel information over many locations and beams incurs considerable pilot and processing overhead. Radio maps and channel knowledge maps (CKMs) reduce this overhe…

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Unlocking Downlink NOMA with FARIS: Joint Clustering and Surface Configuration Design

Hong-Bae Jeon, Tuo Wu

This paper investigates a fluid active reconfigurable intelligent surface (FARIS)-aided downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. We formulate a network sum-rate maxim…

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CSI Reconstruction in Fluid Antenna Systems Without Spatial Covariance Priors

Zhentian Zhang, Kaitao Meng, Tuo Wu +6

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) exploit many candidate ports for spatial diversity, but hardware constraints allow channel observations at only a few active ports. Whether full-port C…

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Outage Analysis and Fairness Design for Spatially Correlated FAS-Enabled RSMA Systems

Jinyuan Liu, Yong Liang Guan, Tuo Wu +3

Sixth-generation (6G) systems target higher reliability, denser connectivity, and tighter interference control. {Within this context, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is envis…

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How Many Independent Modes Does a Fluid Antenna Have? A Closed-Form Outage Analysis via Equivalent Degrees of Freedom

Tuo Wu, Junteng Yao, Kai-Kit Wong +5

In a fluid antenna system (FAS), a single reconfigurable antenna is able to activate one of correlated ports to exploit spatial diversity. However, outage analysis is challengi…

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Sparse Fluid Antenna Arrays: Continuous Position Design Beyond Classical DOF Limits

Tuo Wu, Jie Tang, Ye Tian +3

Fluid antenna system (FAS), which continuously repositions a single physical element across a deployment region , breaks this limit by freeing antenna positions from the di…

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Near-Field Communications with Different Array Geometries: Rayleigh Distance, Channel Estimation, and Transmission Design

Kangda Zhi, Yi Song, Tianyu Yang +5

This work establishes a framework of near-field communication under different array geometries of extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO). We first formulate…

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Hybrid Architecture Gets Fluid: A New Paradigm for Direction-of-arrival Estimation in 6G Networks

Ye Tian, Jiaji Ren, Tuo Wu +5

High-precision direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, as a key sensing capability for 6G-enabled applications such as autonomous driving and extended reality, is increasingly depen…

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DOA Estimation for Low-Altitude Networks: HAD Architectures, Methods, and Challenges

Ye Tian, Tuo Wu, Jintao Wu +4

With the rapid expansion of low-altitude economy (LAE) services and the growing demand for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in air-ground networks, reliable direction-of…

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Fundamental Analysis of Scalable Fluid Antenna Systems: Identifiability Limits, Information Theory, and Joint Processing

Tuo Wu, Kai-Kit Wong, Jie Tang +8

Unlike fixed-position arrays with static observation entropy, the scalable fluid antenna system (S-FAS) can dynamically adjust its aperture to form different observation spaces wit…

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A Gaussian Process Framework for Outage Analysis in Continuous-Aperture Fluid Antenna Systems

Tuo Wu, Jianchao Zheng

This paper develops a comprehensive analytical framework for the outage probability of fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided communications by modeling the antenna as a continuous apert…

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Karhunen-Loève Expansion for Fluid Antenna Systems: Information-Theoretic Optimal Channel Compression and Outage Analysis

Tuo Wu

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) achieve spatial diversity by dynamically switching among densely packed ports, but the resulting spatially correlated Rayleigh channels render exact…

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Near-Field NLOS Localization via Position-Unknown HRIS:From Self-Localization to Target Positioning

Hua Chen, Linke Yu, Tuo Wu +4

Current reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field (NF) localization methods assume the RIS position is known a priori, and it has limited their practical applicabil…

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Physical Layer Security for FAS-Aided Short-Packet Systems: A Variable Block-Correlation Approach

Jianchao Zheng, Tuo Wu, Kai-Kit Wong +5

This paper presents a comprehensive physical layer security (PLS) framework for fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided short-packet communications under the variable block-correlation mo…

cs.IT2026

Artificial Noise Versus Artificial Noise Elimination: Redefining Scaling Laws of Physical Layer Security

Hong Niu, Tuo Wu, Xia Lei +4

Artificial noise (AN) is a key physical-layer security scheme for wireless communications over multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. Recently, artificial noise eliminati…

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Fluid Antennas Meet Intelligent Surfaces: Security Analysis of NOMA Systems Under Hardware Impairments

Tuo Wu, Jianchao Zheng, Xiazhi Lai +3

The revolutionary convergence of fluid antenna systems (FAS) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) creates unprecedented opportunities for secure wireless communications, y…

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Taming the Bessel Landscape: Joint Antenna Position Optimization for Spatial Decorrelation in Fluid MIMO Systems

Tuo Wu, Kai-Kit Wong, Baiyang Liu +2

When the concept of fluid antenna system (FAS) is applied to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, this gives rise to MIMO-FAS, a.k.a.~fluid MIMO. Under rich scattering, t…

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Beyond : Can Arbitrary EMVS Arrays Achieve Unambiguous NLOS Localization?

Hua Chen, Zhenhao Yu, Tuo Wu +5

Conventional radar array design mandates interelement spacing not exceeding half a wavelength () to avoid spatial ambiguity, fundamentally limiting array aperture and angular…