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most citedChannel Estimation for mmWave MIMO-OFDM Systems in High-Mobility Scenarios: Instantaneous Model or Statistical Model?

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eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.AS2026

An Optical Pathway to Movable Rydberg Atomic Quantum Receivers

Qihao Peng, Qu Luo, Lixia Xiao +6

This paper develops an optically movable Rydberg atomic quantum receiver (RAQR), in which the probe and coupling beams are steered within each vapor cell to dynamically reconfigure…

cs.IT2026

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,…

eess.SP2026

Flexible Wideband Filtering Monopole Antenna With Stable High Omnidirectionality

Runkai Song, Fan Qin, Chao Gu +3

This article presents a wideband flexible filtering monopole antenna with symmetric structure for stable high omnidirectionality. It is based on a monopole antenna, which is printe…

eess.SP2026

Toward Alias-Free Channel Extrapolation in Upper Mid-Band Systems: A Spatial-Frequency-Temporal Tensor Learning Approach

Jiawei Zhuang, Hongwei Hou, Yafei Wang +4

Upper mid-band massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) offers a favorable capacity-coverage trade-off for next-generation wireless systems, but its large antenna arrays, wide…

eess.SP2026

Cell-Level Channel Shaping for Rydberg Atomic Quantum Receivers in Satellite Uplinks With Doppler-Enabled Superheterodyne Reception

Qihao Peng, Qu Luo, Kezhi Wang +4

In this paper, we propose a self-superheterodyne Rydberg uniform array receiver for satellite uplink communications, in which the Doppler shift naturally induced by satellite motio…

eess.IV2026

Explainable Task-Oriented Token Communication for AI-Native 6G Networks

Feibo Jiang, Lei Mao, Li Dong +3

The integration of Foundation Models (FMs) and wireless communications is driving the evolution of image communication from bit-accurate transmission toward task-oriented transmiss…

eess.SP2026

A Hybrid Near-field Indoor Channel Model for THz Bands Based on Surface Scattering Characteristics

Yongchao He, Taihao Zhang, Cunhua Pan +6

Terahertz (THz) communication and extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) are essential for achieving ultra-high data rates in future 6G systems. However, at sub-millimeter wavelength…

eess.SP2026

Beyond the RF Paradigm: Rydberg Atomic Receivers for Next-Generation IoT

Qihao Peng, Qu Luo, Dongnan Xia +11

Next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) is evolving toward a ubiquitous, ultra-low-power, and multi-band heterogeneous networking paradigm that seamlessly integrates terrestrial,…

eess.IV2026

RFDT-Channel: RGB-LiDAR-Based RF Digital Twin Scene Construction for 28 GHz Indoor Ray-Tracing Channel Simulation

Chengyang Yao, Cunhua Pan, Jiaming Zeng +5

Real-scene indoor millimeter-wave simulation requires efficient modeling of radio frequency (RF)-computable geometry and electromagnetic material properties. To address the low eff…

eess.SP2026

Channel Measurements and Characterization with Phase Drift Compensation for Outdoor 330-360 GHz MIMO Communications

Tian Qiu, Taihao Zhang, Cunhua Pan +5

In this paper, an outdoor channel measurement campaign at 330-360 GHz employing a 128 * 4 virtual antenna array (VAA)-based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration is c…

eess.SP2026

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…

quant-ph2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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-…

eess.SP2026

Signal-Dependent Shot Noise Modeling of Rydberg Atomic Quantum Receivers: A Design Perspective

Qihao Peng, Qu Luo, Tierui Gong +8

In this paper, we develop a communication-oriented complex baseband equivalent model for superheterodyne Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQRs). The model explicitly captures pho…

cs.IT2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

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…

eess.SP2026

Enhancing AAV-Enabled Secure Communications via Synthetic Aperture Beamforming

Bin Qiu, Wenchi Cheng, Hongxiang He +1

In this paper, we consider a synthetic aperture secure beamforming approach for a virtual multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) broadcast channel in the presence of hybrid wiretapp…