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. Spectral- and Energy-efficient Multi-BS Multi-RIS Pinching-antenna Systems: A GNN-based Approach

    May 2, 2026Changpeng He, Yang Lu, Wei Chen +3Reconfigurable Intelligent SurfacesWireless Communications

    State Key Laboratory of Advanced Rail Autonomous Operation, and also with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China · School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China · School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London +2

  2. Adaptive 3D-RoPE: Physics-Aligned Rotary Positional Encoding for Wireless Foundation Models

    May 1, 2026Chenyu Zhang, Xinchen Lyu, Chenshan Ren +4Rotary Positional EmbeddingsWireless Foundation Models

    National Engineering Research Center for Mobile Network Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · Department of Broadband Communication, Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China · Key Laboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China +1

  3. LLM-assisted gNB Parameter Configuration for Radio Access Network

    May 1, 2026Yao-Cong Dong, Maria Amparo Canaveras Galdon, Ari Uskudar +3LLM Fine-TuningWireless Communications

    Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · NVIDIA, USA · Colorado State University, USA

  4. Fairness-Guided DQN-Based TXOP Control for NR-U/Wi-Fi Coexistence

    May 1, 2026Po-Heng Chou, Yi-Fang Yu, Shou-Yu Chen +1Wireless CommunicationsWireless Resource Allocation

    Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), Academia Sinica (AS), Taipei 11529, Taiwan · Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei 10610 Taiwan

  5. Soft Graph Diffusion Transformer for MIMO Detection

    May 1, 2026Nan Jiang, Jiadong Hong, Lei Liu +3Diffusion TransformerWireless Communications

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Theory Lab, Central Research Institute, 2012 Labs, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, China

  6. Toward Scalable SDN for LEO Mega-Constellations: A Graph Learning Approach

    Apr 30, 2026Sivaram Krishnan, Bassel Al Homssi, Zhouyou Gu +3Graph Neural NetworksWireless Communications

    School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5000, Australia

  7. Recent Advances in mm-Wave and Sub-THz/THz Oscillators for FutureG Technologies

    Apr 29, 2026Baktash Behmanesh, Ahmad RezvanitabarWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, Lund, 221 00, Sweden · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  8. CellTwin: Reproducible Cellular Network Emulation via High Resolution, in situ Measurement-Driven ML

    Apr 28, 2026Haoran Wan, Yaxiong Xie, Kyle JamiesonWireless CommunicationsWireless Resource Allocation

    Princeton University · University at Buffalo, SUNY

  9. Lightweight Quantum Agent for Edge Systems: Joint PQC and NOMA Resource Allocation

    Apr 28, 2026Yongtao Yao, Wenjing Xiao, Miaojiang Chen +5Edge ComputingWireless Communications

    School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, and also with the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Nanning 530004, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China · College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China +3

  10. Multi-Periodogram Velocity Estimation with Irregular Reference Signals for Robot-Aided ISAC

    Apr 28, 2026Yi Geng, Pan Cao, Ting Zeng +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

    Cictmobile, China · University of Hertfordshire, UK · Beihang University, China +1

  11. SPAT: A Semantic Port-Aware Adaptive-Rate Transmission Protocol for Semantic Communication

    Apr 28, 2026Yunhao Wang, Shuai Ma, Bin Shen +4Semantic CommunicationWireless Communications

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China · Department of Networked Intelligence, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518066, China · School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China +3

  12. EVT-Based Generative AI for Tail-Aware Channel Estimation

    Apr 27, 2026Parmida Valiahdi, Niloofar Mehrnia, Walid Saad +1Synthetic Data AugmentationWireless Communications

    ∗Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey · †Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Virginia, United States

  13. Machine-Learning-Based Classification of Radio Frequency Building Loss

    Apr 27, 2026Jiayi Tan, Neelabhro Roy, James Gross +2Wireless CommunicationsRadio Propagation Modeling

    Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  14. Selective Depthwise Separable Convolution for Lightweight Joint Source-Channel Coding in Wireless Image Transmission

    Apr 24, 2026Ming Ye, Kui Cai, Cunhua Pan +3Deep Joint Source-Channel CodingWireless Communications

    Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372 · National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

  15. Learning Coverage- and Power-Optimal Transmitter Placement from City Maps: A Comparative Study of Direct and Indirect Neural Approaches

    Apr 23, 2026Çağkan YaparWireless CommunicationsMulti-Objective Optimization

  16. Null-Space Flow Matching for MIMO Channel Estimation in Latency-Constrained Systems

    Apr 23, 2026Junjie Zhao, Guangming Liang, Dongzhu Liu +1Flow MatchingEfficient Inference

    College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University · School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow · School of Natural and Computing Science, University of Aberdeen

  17. MambaCSP: Hybrid-Attention State Space Models for Hardware-Efficient Channel State Prediction

    Apr 23, 2026Aladin Djuhera, Haris Gacanin, Holger BocheEfficient Neural Network InferenceSelective SSMs

    Technical University Munich, Germany · RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  18. Optimal Routing for Federated Learning over Dynamic Satellite Networks: Tractable or Not?

    Apr 21, 2026Yi Zhao, Di Yuan, Tao Deng +2Wireless CommunicationsFederated Learning

    Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, 75105 Uppsala, Sweden · School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China · Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +1

  19. Deep Learning for Multi-Antenna Modulation Recognition of Radio Signals

    Apr 20, 2026Tao Chen, Shilian Zheng, Jiepeng Chen +3Wireless Communications

    College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Quzhou University, Quzhou 324000, China · National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Space Security, Jiaxing 314033, China · Institute of Cyberspace Security, and also with the College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou2026 310023, China

  20. LLM-AUG: Robust Wireless Data Augmentation with In-Context Learning in Large Language Models

    Apr 20, 2026Pranshav Gajjar, Manan Tiwari, Sayanta Seth +1Distribution Shift RobustnessSynthetic Data Augmentation

    NextG Wireless Lab, North Carolina State University, NC

  21. Path-Based Quantum Meta-Learning for Adaptive Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    Apr 20, 2026Noha Hassan, Xavier Fernando, Halim YanikomerogluAdaptive Model RoutingReconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada · Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  22. AirFM-DDA: Air-Interface Foundation Model in the Delay-Doppler-Angle Domain for AI-Native 6G

    Apr 19, 2026Kejia Bian, Meixia Tao, Jianhua Mo +2Wireless Foundation ModelsRepresentation Learning

    School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai 200231, China

  23. E2E-WAVE: End-to-End Learned Waveform Generation for Underwater Video Multicasting

    Apr 18, 2026Khizar Anjum, Tingcong Jiang, Dario PompiliSemantic CommunicationWireless Communications

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

  24. Planar Gaussian Splatting with Bilinear Spatial Transformer for Wireless Radiance Field Reconstruction

    Apr 17, 2026Jinghan Zhang, Xitao Gong, Qi Wang +2Wireless CommunicationsGaussian Splatting

    Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  25. Impact of Nonlinear Power Amplifier on Massive MIMO: Machine Learning Prediction Under Realistic Radio Channel

    Apr 17, 2026Marcin Hoffmann, Paweł KryszkiewiczWireless CommunicationsWireless Resource Allocation

    Institute of Radiocommunications, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland · Rimedo Labs, Poznań Poland

  26. Cross-Modal Generation: From Commodity WiFi to High-Fidelity mmWave and RFID Sensing

    Apr 17, 2026Zhixiong Yang, Long Jing, Yao Li +3Synthetic Data GenerationWireless Communications

    Tsinghua University Beijing, China

  27. A Q-learning-based QoS-aware multipath routing protocol in IoMT-based wireless body area network

    Apr 16, 2026Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Roohallah Alizadehsani, Amin Beheshti +7Wireless Communications

    School of Engineering and Technology, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam · Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia · School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia +6

  28. Multi-User mmWave Beam and Rate Adaptation via Combinatorial Satisficing Bandits

    Apr 16, 2026Emre Özyıldırım, Barış Yaycı, Umut Eren Akturk +1Multi-Armed BanditsCombinatorial Semi-Bandits

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye

  29. Learning Ad Hoc Network Dynamics via Graph-Structured World Models

    Apr 16, 2026Can Karacelebi, Yusuf Talha Sahin, Elif Surer +1World Model LearningWorld Models

    Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye · Türk Telekom, Ankara, Turkiye · Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye

  30. Aerial Multi-Functional RIS in Fluid Antennas-Aided Full-Duplex Networks: A Self-Optimized Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Apr 15, 2026Li-Hsiang Shen, Yu-Quan ZhengHybrid Action Space RLWireless Communications

    Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan 320317, Taiwan