Wireless Communications

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Wireless communications studies how transmitters and receivers exchange information despite noise, interference, mobility, and limited spectrum and power. Physical-layer work develops channel estimation, beamforming, modulation, coding, and signal detection, using tools such as ray tracing, deep learning, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. At the network level, researchers use optimization, bandits, and reinforcement learning for scheduling, routing, handover, and resource allocation across cellular, Wi-Fi, satellite, and UAV systems; newer work also explores integrated sensing and communication and semantic transmission. Results are tested in standards-based channel simulations, ray-traced environments, and real testbeds, but generalization across hardware and settings, deployment cost, and the gap between simulated and operational performance remain central challenges.

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  1. Quantifying the Relay-Coverage Trade-off in Mobile Multihop Flooding

    Oct 29, 2026Johannes F. Loevenich, Thies Möhlenhof, Roberto Rigolin F. LopesWireless CommunicationsCommunication Topology Optimization

    Thales Deutschland, cortAIx Labs, Germany · Institute of Computer Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany

  2. SatOps-Decision: Low-Latency Discriminative Decisions for Onboard Satellite Communication Operations

    Oct 28, 2026Lifan Mei, Yuxuan Li, Jiaxian Tu +1LLM Decision-MakingEfficient Language Model Inference

    Academy of AIAT, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Amazon, Inc.

  3. Federated Learning for Semantic Communications over Multiple Access Channels

    Oct 27, 2026Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Yi ShiSemantic CommunicationWireless Communications

    Nexcepta, Gaithersburg, MD, USA · Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, USA

  4. RAG-CSI: Global Local Retrieval via Joint State and Dynamics Matching for CSI Prediction

    Oct 27, 2026Xinyue Jiang, Tong Li, Shiceng Zhang +2Channel State PredictionWireless Communications

    College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China. · Xidian University, Xian, China. · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518066, China.

  5. Learning Representative Port Subsets for Efficient Fluid Antenna Systems

    Oct 24, 2026Quan Zhou, Ming ZengWireless CommunicationsCoreset Selection

    National University of Singapore · Université Laval

  6. Learning Nonlinear Waveform Fusion Across Scales for Integrated Sensing and Communication

    Oct 23, 2026Jiayu Liu, Kai Wan, Shuo Shao +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

  7. Agent AI Zarządzający Siecią Open RAN Zorientowana na Użytkownika

    Oct 20, 2026Marcin HoffmannOpen Radio Access NetworkWireless Communications

    Politechnika Poznaska, Pozna · Rimedo Labs, Pozna

  8. Physics-Driven Framework for QoS-Constrained Satellite System with Non-Linear PA Distortion

    Oct 19, 2026Hamza Ahmed Qureshi, Abuzar Babikir Mohammad Adam, Vu Nguyen Ha +2Wireless CommunicationsWireless Resource Allocation

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  9. CorteXforge: Scenario-Based RF Dataset Generation on Real Testbeds

    Oct 19, 2026Andréa Joly, Leonardo S Cardoso, Jean-Marie GorceSynthetic Data GenerationWireless Communications

    CITI · Inria, INSA Lyon, CITI, UR3720, 69621 Villeurbanne, France

  10. X-RIC: An Agentic RAN-Intelligent Controller Benchmark for Enhancing Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 15, 2026Adhwaa Al-Chaab, Ayman Younis, Dario PompiliNetwork SlicingAgentic RL

    †Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, NJ, USA

  11. Fault Detection and Bit-Error Rate Diagnostics in Optical Wireless Links Using Edge-AI

    Oct 15, 2026Sarthak Bhattarai, Sheshadri Shikhar Bandyopadhyay, Suprabh Dhakal +1Fault DiagnosisWireless Communications

    Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University Lalitpur, Nepal

  12. O-RAN-Native Jamming Detection Under Network Heterogeneity

    Oct 14, 2026Sneihil Gopal, Fernando J. Cintrón, Richard A. RouilWireless CommunicationsAnomaly Detection

    PREP Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA · Department of Physics, Georgetown University, USA · National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

  13. Comparative Evaluation of Deep-Learning based DoA Estimators for Real-Time ISAC Beamforming

    Oct 14, 2026Anjali K. S., Manoj Kumar Panda, Chandramani SinghDirection-of-Arrival EstimationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India · Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  14. FlowSep-RF: Rectified Flow Matching for Single-Channel Radio-Frequency Signal Separation

    Oct 14, 2026Mohamed Kamel, Tamer NadeemWireless CommunicationsRectified Flow

    Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

  15. Digital Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full-Duplex Systems Based on Transformer Neural Operators

    Oct 14, 2026Zhijie Su, Shiquan Zhang, Qiaolin HeTransformer Neural OperatorWireless Communications

    Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

  16. Link Both Views: Cross-Image Routing Attention for Dual-Endpoint V2I Beam-Pair Power Prediction

    Oct 13, 2026Shiliang Lu, Lu Bai, Ziwei Huang +1Cross-View AttentionWireless Communications

    Joint SDU-NTU Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-FAIR), Shandong University, Jinan 250101, China · School of Software, Shandong University · State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  17. CALM-5G: Event-Level Conformal Risk Control for Predictive Service-Assurance Alarms

    Oct 13, 2026Ömer Faruk İşcanlı, Yağmur Sabucu SandalOnline CalibrationConformal Risk Control

    Siemens A.¸S., Istanbul, Türkiye

  18. RAN-JEPA: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Energy-efficient Mobile Network Control

    Oct 13, 2026Binghan Wu, Kai Zeng, Kai Yang +3Action-Conditioned World ModelsWireless Communications

    AsiaInfo Technologies, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, China +2

  19. Queue-Aware Token Communications: Bridging AI Representation and Wireless Service

    Oct 12, 2026Yuquan Xiao, Qinghe Du, Chaoyang Zhang +4Wireless CommunicationsToken Efficiency

    School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China. · State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China. · VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 02140 Espoo, Finland. +1

  20. RFWeave: Learning Wireless Propagation Across Scenes and Transceiver Configurations

    Oct 12, 2026Shurui Xu, Xiao Ye, Yijie Bian +5Radio Propagation ModelingWireless Communications

    Southeast University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  21. PRB-WM: Physics-Regularized Beta World Models for Predictive Link Adaptation on Real Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels

    Oct 12, 2026Shengjie Zhong, Zhongliang Zhao, Jingxuan Chen +5Wireless CommunicationsLatent World Models

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Department of Strategic and Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Peng Cheng Laboratory · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou +8

  22. RF Fingerprinting of DSP Implementations using Machine Learning: An Over-the-Air Case Study

    Oct 11, 2026Stefan SchollRF Fingerprint IdentificationWireless Communications

  23. Exposing AI Inference as a Telco Network API over the 5G User Plane

    Oct 10, 2026Rodrigo Moreira, Larissa Ferreira Rodrigues Moreira, Joberto S. B. Martins +2Edge InferenceSplit Inference

    Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Minas Gerais, Brazil · University of Salvador (UNIFACS), Salvador, Brazil · University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil +1

  24. Conflict-Aware Autonomous Resource Orchestration for 5G Edge Slicing Using Multi-Agent Systems and LLMs

    Oct 10, 2026Nathan R. Prediger, Rodrigo Moreira, Juliano Araujo Wickboldt +4Network SlicingEdge Computing

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil · Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Minas Gerais, Brazil · University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil +1

  25. Goal-Oriented Bundle Management and Flow Control for Deep-Space Communications via Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 9, 2026Sajjad Baghaee, Aimin Li, Shanmugarajan Balasubramanian +1Wireless CommunicationsAge of Information

    Communication Networks Research Group (CNG), Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye

  26. Neural Network Verification for Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding

    Oct 8, 2026Thanh Le, Hai Duong, Takeshi Matsumura +1Deep Joint Source-Channel CodingCertified Robustness

    Wireless Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan · George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

  27. Digital Twin for Pre-Deployment Validation of AI-Driven Safety-Critical Industrial Edge Control Loops

    Oct 8, 2026Sara Cavallero, Federico Tonini, Tony Chahoud +5Digital TwinsCyber-Physical Systems

    National Laboratory of Wireless Communications of CNIT (Wilab, CNIT), Italy · DEI, University of Bologna, Italy · WiLab CNIT, Italy +1

  28. SR-TTA: Spatial-Redundancy Test-Time Adaptation for Interference-Robust Respiration Sensing

    Oct 8, 2026Jingyuan Liu, Zheng Chang, Haoqiu Xiong +2Test-Time AdaptationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · WaveCoRe, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

  29. CityDeploy-Bench: Benchmarking Physics-Grounded Spatial Set Planning for Multi-Transmitter Network Deployment

    Oct 8, 2026Chenyang Yuan, Xiaoyuan ChengBenchmark DesignWireless Communications

    University of Sheffield · University College London

  30. Beyond LLM-GA: Secure Fluid Antenna Systems with ReEvo-Designed Memetic Algorithm

    Oct 7, 2026Hanyong Xu, Zhaolai Dang, Tong ZhangWireless CommunicationsMetaheuristic Optimization

    School of Information, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518055, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aerospace Communication and Networking Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China