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Practical Hardware-Efficient ISAC: Enabling Multi-Target Sensing With Few RF Chains
Zhenkun Zhang, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +3
Hybrid analog--digital arrays reduce hardware cost in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), but spatial compression and beam-dependent scan responses complicate multi-targe…
Adaptive Antenna Element Activation for Multiuser Uniform Spherical Arrays
Ao Li, Cunhua Pan, Wang Liu +2
Uniform spherical arrays provide full-space coverage. However, owing to directional element patterns, full-array transmission activates many elements that contribute little to a gi…
AFDM-ISAC With Fractional Delay-Doppler Coupling
Shaohua Li, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a promising chirp-based multicarrier waveform for high-mobility integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). Accurate angle, delay,…
A Measurement-Based Parameterization of Physics Reflection Models for Terahertz Communication
Taihao Zhang, Chenzhou Lin, Cunhua Pan +6
The accurate modeling of reflection coefficients is pivotal for developing reliable channel models in emerging terahertz (THz) communications. This study establishes a 300400…
Coverage Analysis of Rydberg Atom Quantum Receiver Arrays: A Stochastic Geometry Approach
Dongnan Xia, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +3
Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQRs) offer quantum-limited sensitivity and broadband tunability. It is not obvious whether this device-level advantage also improves network rel…
CAT-MoEformer: Context-Aware Temporal MoE Transformer for Beam Prediction
Changkai Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +1
This paper proposes CAT-MoEformer, a context-aware transformer with scene-conditioned mixture-of-experts (MoE) feed-forward networks, for proactive mmWave beam prediction from comp…
Channel Estimation for Beyond Diagonal RIS-Aided Multi-User mmWave Systems
Linyu Peng, Tian Qiu, Cunhua Pan +3
Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) represents a promising architecture for advancing millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. However, its intricate inter-…
Near-field Channel Estimation for XL-RIS-aided mmWave MIMO Systems
Erkang Dong, Taihao Zhang, Cunhua Pan +2
Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (XL-RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. However, the exceedingly lar…
CRS-LLM: Cooperative Beam Prediction with a GPT-Style Backbone and Switch-Gated Fusion
Fangzhi Li, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication depends on highly directional beamforming, while fast mobility, blockage, and rapid geometry changes in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) scenarios…
Robust Cross-Domain WiFi Fall Detection via Physics-Driven Attention-Enhanced Transformers
Yingzhe Wang, Cunhua Pan, Ruijing Liu +4
Device-free fall detection utilizing WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) has emerged as a promising, privacy-preserving solution for elderly health monitoring in the Internet of T…
Ground Reflection-Aided TomoSAR Imaging with 5G NR Signals
Qiuyuan Yang, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +1
Tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) enables three-dimensional imaging by resolving targets along the elevation dimension, which is essential for environment reconstructi…
Spherical Antenna Arrays for Future Communications: Principles, Applications, and Research Directions
Cunhua Pan, Xianzhe Chen, Hong Ren +1
With the development of 6G technologies, traditional uniform linear arrays (ULAs) and uniform planar arrays (UPAs) can hardly meet the demands of three-dimensional (3D) full-space…
A BEV-Fusion Based Framework for Sequential Multi-Modal Beam Prediction in mmWave Systems
Jiaming Zeng, Cunhua Pan, Haoyang Weng +3
Beam prediction is critical for reducing beam-training overhead in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, especially in high-mobility vehicular scenarios. This paper presents a BEV-Fusi…
Tensor Train Decomposition-based Channel Estimation for MIMO-AFDM Systems with Fractional Delay and Doppler
Ruizhe Wang, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising chirp-based multicarrier technology for high-speed communication systems. To fully exploit the diversity ga…
Subspace Fusion Sensing for Cooperative ISAC
Yining Xu, Cunhua Pan, Jun Tang +2
This paper proposes a subspace fusion sensing algorithm for cooperative integrated sensing and communication. First, we stack the received signals from access points (APs) into a t…
WiFi-based Cross-Domain Gesture Recognition Using Attention Mechanism
Ruijing Liu, Cunhua Pan, Jiaming Zeng +4
While fulfilling communication tasks, wireless signals can also be used to sense the environment. Among various types of sensing media, WiFi signals offer advantages such as widesp…
A Cyclic Shift Embedded Pilot based Channel Estimation for Multi-User MIMO-OTFS systems with fractional delay and Doppler
Ruizhe Wang, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +2
Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been proposed to meet the demand for reliable communication in high-mobility scenarios for future wireless networks. However,…
Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided MU-MIMO mmWave Systems with Direct Channel Links
Taihao Zhang, Zhendong Peng, Cunhua Pan +2
In this paper, we propose a three-stage unified channel estimation strategy for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…
Theoretical and Empirical Study of Spatial Power Focusing Effect for Sparse Arrays at Terahertz Band
Yongchao He, Taihao Zhang, Cunhua Pan +5
This work investigates the spatial power focusing effect for large-scale sparse arrays at terahertz (THz) band, combining theoretical analysis with experimental validation. Specifi…
A Two-Stage ISAC Framework for Low-Altitude Economy Based on 5G NR Signals
Haisu Wu, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +5
The evolution of next-generation wireless networks has spurred the vigorous development of the low-altitude economy (LAE). To support this emerging field while remaining compatible…
4D Imaging in ISAC Systems: A Framework Based on 5G NR Downlink Signals
Haoyang Weng, Haisu Wu, Hong Ren +2
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, supporting spectrum sharing and hardware integration. Beyond c…
UAV SAR Imaging with 5G NR OFDM Signals in NLOS Environments
Qiuyuan Yang, Cunhua Pan, Ruidong Li +4
The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) has significant potential for future wireless systems, enabling efficient spectrum utilization and novel application scenarios.…
Cooperative ISAC for LAE: Joint Trajectory Planning, Power allocation, and Dynamic Time Division
Fangzhi Li, Zhichu Ren, Cunhua Pan +4
To enhance the performance of aerial-ground networks, this paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-UAV systems. In our model, ground base…
Mutual Coupling Aware Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multi-User mmWave Systems
Tian Qiu, Ruidong Li, Cunhua Pan +4
This paper proposes a three-stage uplink channel estimation protocol for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input sing…