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The listen before talk (LBT) mechanism is often used in dynamic spectrum access (DSA) schemes, which requires secondary users (SUs) to perform spectrum sensing before accessing a channel so as to avoid transmission collisions with primary users (PUs). In the scenario of DSA with multiple PU channels, channel sensing order according to the idle probabilities of PU channels is important for SUs to improve the spectrum efficiency. However, conventional DSA schemes are sluggish in updating the estim...

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) technique, which modulates data symbols in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, presents a potential solution for supporting reliable information transmission in high-mobility vehicular networks. In this paper, we study the issues of DD channel estimation for OTFS in the presence of fractional Doppler. We first propose a channel estimation algorithm with both low complexity and high accuracy based on the unitary approximate message passing (UAMP), which exploits ...

Grant-free random access is promising in achieving massive connectivity with sporadic transmissions in massive machine type communications (mMTC) for internet of things (IoT) applications, where the hand-shaking between the access point (AP) and users is skipped, leading to high multiple access efficiency. In grant-free random access, the AP needs to identify the active users and perform channel estimation and signal detection. Conventionally, pilot signals are required for the AP to achieve use...

This paper studies the channel estimation for wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems equipped with hybrid analog/digital transceivers operating in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) or terahertz (THz) bands. By exploiting the low-rank property of the concatenated channel matrix of the delay taps, we formulate the channel estimation problem as a low-rank matrix sensing (LRMS) problem and solve it using a low-complexity generalized conditional gradient-alternating minimization (GCG-ALTMI...

Achieving reliable underwater acoustic (UWA) communications is challenging due to the rapid changes of UWA channels and presence of impulsive noise. The soft decision feedback equalization (SDFE) has attracted much attention due to its capability of tackling the rapid changes of UWA channels. However, the existing SDFE exhibits error floor and even divergence due to the presence of severe impulsive noise. To overcome this problem, an improved SDFE (ISDFE) is proposed, which incorporates impulsiv...

/PRNewswire/ -- Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced that it will be showcasing its Lab to Live test and optimization solutions across...

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is very promising for wireless networks to achieve high energy efficiency, extended coverage, improved capacity, massive connectivity, etc. To unleash the full potentials of RIS-aided communications, acquiring accurate channel state information is crucial, which however is very challenging. For RIS-aided multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communications, the existing channel estimation methods have computational complexity growing rapidly with the ...

The President's Page - September 2022

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as a promising candidate for energy-efficient solutions in future wireless networks. Their dynamic and low-power configuration enables coverage extension, massive connectivity, and low-latency communications. Due to a large number of unknown variables referring to the RIS unit elements and the transmitted signals, channel estimation and signal recovery in RIS-based systems are the ones of the most critical technical challen...

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