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. Explainable and Hardware-Efficient Jamming Detection for 5G Networks Using the Convolutional Tsetlin Machine

    Mar 7, 2026Vojtech Halenka, Mohammadreza Amini, Per-Arne Andersen +2Wireless CommunicationsEdge Inference

    Center of Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

  2. Deep Learning-Driven Friendly Jamming for Secure Multicarrier ISAC Under Channel Uncertainty

    Mar 5, 2026Bui Minh Tuan, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Diep N. Nguyen +5Wireless CommunicationsIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia · the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, D02PN40, Ireland · Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X), VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam +3

  3. Enhancing User Throughput in Multi-panel mmWave Radio Access Networks for Beam-based MU-MIMO Using a DRL Method

    Mar 3, 2026Ramin Hashemi, Vismika Ranasinghe, Teemu Veijalainen +2Millimeter-Wave CommunicationsWireless Communications

    Nokia, Espoo, Finland · Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  4. The Vienna 4G/5G Drive-Test Dataset

    Mar 3, 2026Wilfried Wiedner, Lukas Eller, Mariam Mussbah +4Wireless CommunicationsRadio Propagation Modeling

    Institute of Telecommunications, TU Wien, Gusshausstraße 25, 1040 Vienna, Austria · Christian Doppler Laboratory for Digital Twin assisted AI for sustainable Radio Access Networks, TU Wien

  5. Joint Optimization of Model Partitioning and Resource Allocation for Anti-Jamming Collaborative Inference Systems

    Mar 3, 2026Mengru Wu, Jiawei Li, Jiaqi Wei +3Distributed InferenceEdge Computing

    College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China · School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China · Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, WC1E 7JE London, U.K. +2

  6. How Small Can 6G Reason? Scaling Tiny-to-Small Language Models for AI-Native Networks

    Mar 2, 2026Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Abderrahmane Lakas, Merouane Debbah6G NetworksSmall Language Models

    Department of Computer and Network Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, UAE · Research Institute for Digital Future, Khalifa University, UAE

  7. Federated Agentic AI for Wireless Networks: Fundamentals, Approaches, and Applications

    Mar 2, 2026Lingyi Cai, Yu Zhang, Ruichen Zhang +5Wireless CommunicationsAgentic RL

    Research Center of 6G Mobile Communications, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA 6027, and the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2033, Australia +2

  8. Communication-Efficient Quantum Federated Learning over Large-Scale Wireless Networks

    Mar 1, 2026Shaba Shaon, Christopher G. Brinton, Dinh C. NguyenQuantum Federated LearningWireless Resource Allocation

    ECE Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA · Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

  9. WirelessAgent++: Automated Agentic Workflow Design and Benchmarking for Wireless Networks

    Feb 28, 2026Jingwen Tong, Zijian Li, Fang Liu +2Wireless Local Area NetworksAgentic Workflows

    College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR

  10. Agentic AI-RAN: Enabling Intent-Driven, Explainable and Self-Evolving Open RAN Intelligence

    Feb 27, 2026Zhizhou He, Yang Luo, Xinkai Liu +4Network SlicingWireless Communications

    5G/6GIC, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK · 6G Research Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  11. Agentic AI for Intent-driven Optimization in Cell-free O-RAN

    Feb 26, 2026Mohammad Hossein Shokouhi, Vincent W. S. WongWireless CommunicationsIntent-Based Networking

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  12. Attention-Based SINR Estimation in User-Centric Non-Terrestrial Networks

    Feb 24, 2026Bruno De Filippo, Alessandro Guidotti, Alessandro Vanelli-CoralliWireless CommunicationsWireless Resource Allocation

    Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering (DEI), Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy · National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Bologna, Italy

  13. Learning During Detection: Continual Learning for Neural OFDM Receivers via DMRS

    Feb 23, 2026Mohanad Obeed, Ming JianWireless CommunicationsOnline Continual Learning

    Advanced Wireless Technology Lab, Huawei Technologies Canada Co. Ltd, ON K2K 3J1, Canada

  14. Metasurfaces-Integrated Wireless Neural Networks for Lightweight Over-The-Air Edge Inference

    Feb 22, 2026Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Paolo Di Lorenzo +1Wireless CommunicationsEdge Inference

    Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 16122 Athens, Greece · National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Parma, Italy · DIAG Department, Sapienza University of Rome, via Ariosto 25, Rome, Italy +1

  15. LWM-Temporal: Sparse Spatio-Temporal Attention for Wireless Channel Representation Learning

    Feb 22, 2026Sadjad Alikhani, Akshay Malhotra, Shahab Hamidi-Rad +1Spatio-Temporal AttentionWireless Communications

  16. Heterogeneity-agnostic AI/ML-assisted beam selection for multi-panel arrays

    Feb 21, 2026Ibrahim Kilinc, Robert W. HeathWireless CommunicationsRadio Propagation Modeling

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

  17. Rethinking Beam Management: Generalization Limits Under Hardware Heterogeneity

    Feb 20, 2026Nikita Zeulin, Olga Galinina, Ibrahim Kilinc +2Wireless CommunicationsOOD Generalization

    Tampere University, Tampere, Finland · University of California San Diego, CA, USA

  18. Voice-Driven Semantic Perception for UAV-Assisted Emergency Networks

    Feb 19, 2026Nuno Saavedra, Pedro Ribeiro, André Coelho +1Spoken Language UnderstandingWireless Communications

    INESC TEC and Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

  19. Agentic Wireless Communication for 6G: Intent-Aware and Continuously Evolving Physical-Layer Intelligence

    Feb 19, 2026Zhaoyang Li, Xingzhi Jin, Junyu Pan +2Wireless Communications6G Networks

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

  20. RSS map-assisted MIMO channel estimation in the upper mid-band under pilot constraints

    Feb 18, 2026Alireza Javid, Nuria González-PrelcicChannel EstimationWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA

  21. Data-Driven Optimization of Multi-Generational Cellular Networks: A Performance Classification Framework for Strategic Infrastructure Management

    Feb 16, 2026Maryam Sabahat, M. Umar KhanWireless Communications

    Department of Mathematics, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. · Department of Computer Engineering, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

  22. Secure and Energy-Efficient Wireless Agentic AI Networks

    Feb 16, 2026Yuanyan Song, Kezhi Wang, Xinmian XuWireless Resource AllocationWireless Communications

    Department of Computer Science, Brunel University of London, UB8 3PH, UK · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  23. RF-GPT: Teaching AI to See the Wireless World

    Feb 16, 2026Hang Zou, Yu Tian, Bohao Wang +4Wireless CommunicationsLanguage Modeling

    Research Institute for Digital Future, Khalifa University, 127788 Abu Dhabi, UAE · College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China · Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, F-54000 Nancy, France

  24. Toward Autonomous O-RAN: A Multi-Scale Agentic AI Framework for Real-Time Network Control and Management

    Feb 15, 2026Hojjat Navidan, Mohammad Cheraghinia, Jaron Fontaine +5Multi-Agent OrchestrationLanguage Model-Based Control

    IDLab, Department of Information Technology at Ghent University - imec, Ghent, Belgium · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, USA

  25. Scalable Cross-Attention Transformer for Cooperative Multi-AP OFDM Uplink Reception

    Feb 4, 2026Xavier Tardy, Grégoire Lefebvre, Apostolos Kountouris +2TransformerCross-Attention

    IETR - UMR CNRS 6164, CentraleSup´elec, avenue de la Boulaie - CS 47601 35576 CESSON-SEVIGNE Cedex, France · Orange Research, Grenoble, France

  26. CoCo-Fed: A Unified Framework for Memory- and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning at the Wireless Edge

    Jan 2, 2026Zhiheng Guo, Zhaoyang Liu, Zihan Cen +5Wireless CommunicationsFederated Learning

    School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China · Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QJ, U.K. · Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

  27. Agentic AI for ISAC: Analysis, Framework, and Case Study

    Dec 17, 2025Wenwen Xie, Geng Sun, Chuang Zhang +2Integrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea

  28. FuseFi: Combining Irregularly Sampled CSI from Diverse Communication Packets and Frequency Bands for Wi-Fi Sensing

    Dec 14, 2025Gaofeng Dong, Kang Yang, Mani SrivastavaIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  29. Over-the-Air Federated Learning: Rethinking Edge AI Through Signal Processing

    Dec 3, 2025Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi, Carlo Fischione, Kaibin HuangFederated Learning AggregationCommunication-Efficient Distributed Training

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  30. Self-Localizing MIMO Beam Mapping with Continuously Evolving Channel Memory

    Nov 21, 2025Wangqian Chen, Junting Chen, Shuguang CuiWireless CommunicationsWireless Localization

    School of Science and Engineering, and the Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii-Shenzhen), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, China