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. ZoomSpec: A Physics-Guided Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Wideband Spectrum Sensing

    Apr 15, 2026Zhentao Yang, Yixiang Luomei, Zhuoyang Liu +2Wireless CommunicationsFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

    Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  2. Applied AI-Enhanced RF Interference Rejection

    Apr 14, 2026Rahul Jain, Pierre Trepagnier, Rick Gentile +2Autoregressive TransformerWireless Communications

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA 02421, USA

  3. Token Encoding for Semantic Recovery

    Apr 14, 2026Jingzhi Hu, Ouya Wang, Geoffrey Ye LiSemantic CommunicationWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

  4. Rapid LoRA Aggregation for Wireless Channel Adaptation in Open-Set Radio Frequency Fingerprinting

    Apr 14, 2026Mingxi Zhang, Renjie Xie, Jincheng Wang +2RF Fingerprint IdentificationOpen-Set Recognition

    School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China · School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · National Mobile Communications Research Lab, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

  5. A Geometric Algebra-informed NeRF Framework for Generalizable Wireless Channel Prediction

    Apr 13, 2026Jingzhou Shen, Luis Lago Enamorado, Shiwen Mao +1Wireless CommunicationsRadio Propagation Modeling

    Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, US · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, US

  6. Efficient Transceiver Design for Aerial Image Transmission and Large-scale Scene Reconstruction

    Apr 13, 2026Zeyi Ren, Jialin Dong, Wei Zuo +4Aerial 3D ReconstructionWireless Communications

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  7. The AI Telco Engineer: Toward Autonomous Discovery of Wireless Communications Algorithms

    Apr 11, 2026Fayçal Aït Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Sebastian Cammerer +3Automated Algorithm DiscoveryWireless Communications

    All authors are with NVIDIA.

  8. Plasticity-Enhanced Multi-Agent Mixture of Experts for Dynamic Objective Adaptation in UAVs-Assisted Emergency Communication Networks

    Apr 10, 2026Wen Qiu, Zhiqiang He, Wei Zhao +1UAV CommunicationReinforcement Learning

    Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan. · Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications, Japan. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University of Technology, China. +1

  9. RL-ASL: A Dynamic Listening Optimization for TSCH Networks Using Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 8, 2026F. Fernando Jurado-Lasso, J. F. JuradoIndustrial Internet of ThingsWireless Communications

    independent researcher, based in Cali, Colombia · Department of Basic Science, Faculty of Engineering and Administration, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Palmira, Palmira 763531, Colombia

  10. Joint Interference Detection and Identification via Adversarial Multi-task Learning

    Apr 8, 2026H. Xu, L. Hu, B. He +1Automatic Modulation ClassificationMulti-Task Learning

    College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410003, P. R. China

  11. Energy Saving for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Apr 8, 2026Qichen Wang, Keyu Li, Ozan Alp Topal +3Wireless Communications

    Department of Communication Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden · Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkiye · Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark

  12. Reinforcement Learning with Reward Machines for Sleep Control in Mobile Networks

    Apr 8, 2026Kristina Levina, Nikolaos Pappas, Athanasios Karapantelakis +2Wireless CommunicationsReinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden · Ericsson Research

  13. Learning to Focus: CSI-Free Hierarchical MARL for Reconfigurable Reflectors

    Apr 6, 2026Hieu Le, Mostafa Ibrahim, Oguz Bedir +2Reconfigurable Intelligent SurfacesHierarchical RL

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA · Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA · School of Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA

  14. Bypassing the CSI Bottleneck: MARL-Driven Spatial Control for Reflector Arrays

    Apr 6, 2026Hieu Le, Oguz Bedir, Mostafa Ibrahim +2Wireless CommunicationsReconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA · Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA · School of Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA +1

  15. Greedy and Transformer-Based Multi-Port Selection for Slow Fluid Antenna Multiple Access

    Apr 6, 2026Darian Perez-Adan, Jose P. Gonzalez-Coma, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez +1Wireless CommunicationsWireless Resource Allocation

    Department of Computer Engineering, University of A Coruña, CITIC, A Coruña, Spain · Defense University Center at the Spanish Naval Academy, Marín, Spain · Dept. Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC-UGR), University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

  16. Out-of-Air Computation: Enabling Structured Function Extraction from Wireless Superposition

    Apr 5, 2026Seyed Mohammad Azimi-AbarghouyiJoint Source-Channel CodingWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  17. When Does Multimodal AI Help? Diagnostic Complementarity of Vision-Language Models and CNNs for Spectrum Management in Satellite-Terrestrial Networks

    Apr 4, 2026Yuanhang LiVLM EvaluationWireless Communications

  18. Full 3D Radiation Pattern Approximation in Multi-Rotor UAVs

    Apr 3, 2026Martin Zoula, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Jan Faigl +2Wireless CommunicationsSpherical Harmonics

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague · Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

  19. Adaptive Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission Leveraging Mixture-of-Experts Mechanism

    Apr 3, 2026Haowen Wan, Qianqian YangAdaptive Model RoutingSparse Mixture-of-Experts

    Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  20. Agentic AI-Empowered Wireless Agent Networks With Semantic-Aware Collaboration via ILAC

    Apr 1, 2026Zhouxiang Zhao, Jiaxiang Wang, Zhaohui Yang +4Wireless CommunicationsMulti-Agent Communication

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, and also with Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Info. Proc., Commun. & Netw. (IPCAN), Hangzhou 310027, China · Department of Engineering, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Data Science and Computing, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA +1

  21. Communications-Aware NMPC for Multi-Rotor Aerial Relay Networks Under Jamming Interference

    Mar 30, 2026Giuseppe Silano, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Davide Liuzza +2UAV Trajectory OptimizationWireless Communications

    Department of Power Generation Technologies and Materials, Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico S.p.A., 20134 Milan, Italy. · Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 12135 Prague, Czech Republic. · College of Computing, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, 11103, Morocco. +2

  22. Diffusion-Based Generative Priors for Efficient Beam Alignment in Directional Networks

    Mar 30, 2026Esraa Fahmy Othman, Lina Bariah, Merouane DebbahMillimeter-Wave CommunicationsWireless Communications

    Research Institute for Digital Future, Khalifa University, 127788 Abu Dhabi, UAE

  23. ML-Enabled Open RAN: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Mar 27, 2026Mira Chandra Kirana, Patatchona Keyela, Fatemeh Rostamian +2Open Radio Access NetworkWireless Communications

    The Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3T 1J4

  24. Trustworthy AI-Driven Dynamic Hybrid RIS: Joint Optimization and Reward Poisoning-Resilient Control in Cognitive MISO Networks

    Mar 27, 2026Deemah H. Tashman, Soumaya CherkaouiWireless CommunicationsReconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    LINCS Laboratory, Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3T 1J4

  25. SAFT: Sensitivity-Aware Filtering and Transmission for Adaptive 3D Point Cloud Communication over Wireless Channels

    Mar 27, 2026Huda Adam Sirag Mekki, Hui Yuan, Mohanad M. G. Hassan +2Joint Source-Channel CodingWireless Communications

    School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Ji’nan, 250061, China · Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and System Control, Ministry of Education, Ji’nan, 250061, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

  26. Online Learning for Dynamic Constellation Topologies

    Mar 26, 2026João Norberto, Ricardo Ferreira, Cláudia SoaresCombinatorial OptimizationWireless Communications

    NOVA School of Science and Technology, Caparica, Portugal

  27. CSI-tuples-based 3D Channel Fingerprints Construction Assisted by MultiModal Learning

    Mar 26, 2026Chenjie Xie, Li You, Ruirong Chen +2Wireless CommunicationsRadio Propagation Modeling

    National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211111, China · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518129, China

  28. A Wireless World Model for AI-Native 6G Networks

    Mar 26, 2026Ziqi Chen, Yi Ren, Yixuan Huang +5Wireless Foundation ModelsWireless Communications

    China Mobile Research Institute, No. 32 Xuan Wu Men West Street, Beijing, 100053, China.

  29. Dual-Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Handover Optimization

    Mar 25, 2026Matteo Salvatori, Filippo Vannella, Sebastian Macaluso +5Wireless CommunicationsDecentralized MARL

    Telefónica Research, Barcelona, 08019, Spain · Innocube PC, 55534 Thessaloniki, Greece · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, 67100, Greece

  30. Cluster-Specific Predictive Modeling: A Scalable Solution for Resource-Constrained Wi-Fi Controllers

    Mar 23, 2026Gianluca Fontanesi, Luca Barbieri, Lorenzo Galati Giordano +2Time Series ForecastingModel Selection

    Radio Systems Research, Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany · Nokia Spain, Madrid