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38 papers
Goal-Oriented Communication and Control Co-Design via Semantic Push-Pull in Industrial IoT
Muhammad Azeem Khan, Yuriy Zacchia Lun, Aamir Mahmood +3
Emerging 6G industrial IoT architectures require wireless networked control systems capable of stabilizing diverse control loops over tightly constrained radio resources. Conventio…
React or Predict? A Spectral Rule for Wireless Threshold Detection
Aamir Mahmood, Nho Duc Tran
A wireless sensor must alert a remote monitor before a monitored process crosses a safety threshold; an alarm arriving afterward may be too late. The sensor can react to its curren…
Average Finite-Blocklength Packet Error Rate over Nakagami- Fading via a Logistic--Lerch Approximation
Aamir Mahmood
Evaluating the average packet error rate (PER) of finite-blocklength (FBL) coded transmission over fading requires integrating the block-error waterfall, given by the normal approx…
Predictive Triggering for Outage-Resilient Threshold Decisions over Short-Packet Links
Nho-Duc Tran, Aamir Mahmood, Mikael Gidlund
Remote threshold decisions require more than accurate state estimates: the posterior must support reliable alarm/no-alarm decisions and, when possible, anticipate early critical de…
Lightweight Non-Line-of-Sight Channel Detection for ML-assisted Bluetooth Direction Finding
Hamed Talebian, Aamir Mahmood, Mehdi Haghshenas +3
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) direction-finding is promising for indoor industrial localization, but its accuracy degrades in multipath environments where reflections and scattering b…
Integrating HAPS, LEO, and Terrestrial Networks: A Cost-Performance Study for IoT Connectivity
Jean Michel de Souza Sant'Ana, Felipe Augusto Tondo, Nurul Huda Mahmood +1
This work evaluates the potential of High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites as alternative or complementary systems to enhance Internet of Thin…
L-Moment-Based LOS and NLOS Channel Characterization via Four-parameter Kappa Distribution for AoA BLE CTE Measurements
Hamed Talebian, Aamir Mahmood, Mikael Gidlund
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) CTE transmissions provide in-phase and quadrature (IQ) samples whose empirical statistics are strongly governed by the propagation regime. in particular,…
Learning-Based Sensor Scheduling for Delay-Aware and Stable Remote State Estimation
Nho-Duc Tran, Aamir Mahmood, Mikael Gidlund
Unpredictable sensor-to-estimator delays fundamentally distort what matters for wireless remote state estimation: not just freshness, but how delay interacts with sensor informativ…
Towards Ultra-Reliable 6G in-X Subnetworks: Dynamic Link Adaptation by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Fateme Salehi, Aamir Mahmood, Sarder Fakhrul Abedin +2
6G networks are composed of subnetworks expected to meet ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements for mission-critical applications such as industrial control…
A Robust 5G Terrestrial Positioning System with Sensor Fusion in GNSS-denied Scenarios
Hamed Talebian, Nazrul Mohamed Nazeer, Darius Chmieliauskas +5
This paper presents a terrestrial localization system based on 5G infrastructure as a viable alternative to GNSS, particularly in scenarios where GNSS signals are obstructed or una…
On Energy-Efficient Passive Beamforming Design of RIS-Assisted CoMP-NOMA Networks
Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Aamir Mahmood +4
This paper investigates the synergistic potential of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to enhance the energy efficiency and perfor…
Ultra-High Reliability by Predictive Interference Management Using Extreme Value Theory
Fateme Salehi, Aamir Mahmood, Sinem Coleri +1
Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) require innovative approaches to modeling channel and interference dynamics, extending beyond traditional average estimates to enc…
Efficient Multi-Source Localization in Near-Field Using only Angular Domain MUSIC
Mehdi Haghshenas, Aamir Mahmood, Mikael Gidlund
The localization of multiple signal sources using sensor arrays has been a long-standing research challenge. While numerous solutions have been developed, signal space methods like…
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory and Phase Shift Optimization of Aerial RIS in CoMP-NOMA Networks
Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Aamir Mahmood +4
This paper explores the potential of aerial reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (ARIS) to enhance coordinated multi-point non-orthogonal multiple access (CoMP-NOMA) networks. We co…
Balancing AoI and Rate for Mission-Critical and eMBB Coexistence with Puncturing, NOMA,and RSMA in Cellular Uplink
Farnaz Khodakhah, Aamir Mahmood, Čedomir Stefanović +3
Through the lens of average and peak age-of-information (AoI), this paper takes a fresh look into the uplink medium access solutions for mission-critical (MC) communication coexist…
Indoor Positioning in 5G-Advanced: Challenges and Solution towards Centimeter-level Accuracy with Carrier Phase Enhancements
Jakub Nikonowicz, Aamir Mahmood, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf +2
After robust connectivity, precise positioning is evolving into an innovative component of 5G service offerings for industrial use-cases and verticals with challenging indoor radio…
Industry 5.0 is Coming: A Survey on Intelligent NextG Wireless Networks as Technological Enablers
Shah Zeb, Aamir Mahmood, Sunder Ali Khowaja +5
Industry 5.0 vision, a step toward the next industrial revolution and enhancement to Industry 4.0, envisioned the new goals of resilient, sustainable, and human-centric approaches…
Industrial Digital Twins at the Nexus of NextG Wireless Networks and Computational Intelligence: A Survey
Shah Zeb, Aamir Mahmood, Syed Ali Hassan +3
By amalgamating recent communication and control technologies, computing and data analytics techniques, and modular manufacturing, Industry~4.0 promotes integrating cyber-physical…
Edge Intelligence in Softwarized 6G: Deep Learning-enabled Network Traffic Predictions
Shah Zeb, Muhammad Ahmad Rathore, Aamir Mahmood +3
The 6G vision is envisaged to enable agile network expansion and rapid deployment of new on-demand microservices (e.g., visibility services for data traffic management, mobile edge…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Backscatter Communication: A New Frontier for Enabling 6G IoT Networks
Sarah Basharat, Syed Ali Hassan, Aamir Mahmood +2
Backscatter Communication (BackCom), which is based on passive reflection and modulation of an incident radio-frequency (RF) wave, has emerged as a cutting-edge technological parad…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Potentials, Applications, and Challenges for 6G Wireless Networks
Sarah Basharat, Syed Ali Hassan, Haris Pervaiz +3
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), with the potential to realize a smart radio environment, have emerged as an energy-efficient and a cost-effective technology to support…
Energy efficiency of slotted LoRaWAN communication with out-of-band synchronization
Luca Beltramelli, Aamir Mahmood, Patrik Österberg +3
Although the idea of using wireless links for covering large areas is not new, the advent of LPWANs has recently started changing the game. Simple, robust, narrowband modulation sc…
Synchronous LoRa Communication by Exploiting Large-Area Out-of-Band Synchronization
Luca Beltramelli, Aamir Mahmood, Paolo Ferrari +3
Many new narrowband low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) (e.g., LoRaWAN, Sigfox) have opted to use pure ALOHA-like access for its reduced control overhead and asynchronous transmi…
Autonomous Interference Mapping for Industrial IoT Networks over Unlicensed Bands
Simone Grimaldi, Aamir Mahmood, Syed Ali Hassan +2
The limited coexistence capabilities of current Internet-of-things (IoT) wireless standards produce inefficient spectrum utilization and mutual performance impairment. The entity o…