Search Results for author: Christos Masouros

Found 39 papers, 3 papers with code

Frame Structure and Protocol Design for Sensing-Assisted NR-V2X Communications

no code implementations27 Dec 2023 Yunxin Li, Fan Liu, Zhen Du, Weijie Yuan, Qingjiang Shi, Christos Masouros

In this study, we propose novel frame structures that incorporate ISAC signals for three crucial stages in the NR-V2X system: initial access, connected mode, and beam failure and recovery.

Novel KLD-based Resource Allocation for Integrated Sensing and Communication

no code implementations3 Dec 2023 Yousef Kloob, Mohammad Al-jarrah, Emad Alsusa, Christos Masouros

In this paper, we introduce a novel resource allocation approach for integrated sensing-communication (ISAC) using the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) metric.

Securing the Sensing Functionality in ISAC Networks: An Artificial Noise Design

no code implementations2 Dec 2023 Jiaqi Zou, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu, Songlin Sun

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems employ dual-functional signals to simultaneously accomplish radar sensing and wireless communication tasks.

Intelligent Surface Empowered Integrated Sensing and Communication: From Coexistence to Reciprocity

no code implementations1 Nov 2023 Kaitao Meng, Qingqing Wu, Christos Masouros, Wen Chen, Deshi Li

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing interests for sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks.

Robust NOMA-assisted OTFS-ISAC Network Design with 3D Motion Prediction Topology

no code implementations21 Oct 2023 Luping Xiang, Ke Xu, Jie Hu, Christos Masouros, Kun Yang

This paper proposes a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-assisted orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS)-integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network, which uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as air base stations to support multiple users.

Fairness motion prediction +1

Robust Joint Active-Passive Beamforming Design for IRS-Assisted ISAC Systems

no code implementations2 Sep 2023 Mahmoud AlaaEldin, Emad Alsusa, Karim G. Seddik, Christos Masouros, Iman Valiulahi

A low complexity and efficient joint optimization of transmit beamforming at the BS and reflective beamforming at the IRS is proposed.

Energy-Efficient Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications Systems

no code implementations8 Jul 2023 Jiaqi Zou, Songlin Sun, Christos Masouros, Yuanhao Cui, Yafeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we investigate the design of energy-efficient beamforming for an ISAC system, where the transmitted waveform is optimized for joint multi-user communication and target estimation simultaneously.

Faster-Than-Nyquist Symbol-Level Precoding for Wideband Integrated Sensing and Communications

no code implementations26 Jun 2023 Zihan Liao, Fan Liu, Ang Li, Christos Masouros

In this paper, we present an innovative symbol-level precoding (SLP) approach for a wideband multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) downlink Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) system employing faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling.

Towards ISAC-Empowered Vehicular Networks: Framework, Advances, and Opportunities

no code implementations1 May 2023 Zhen Du, Fan Liu, Yunxin Li, Weijie Yuan, Yuanhao Cui, Zenghui Zhang, Christos Masouros, Bo Ai

Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) networks face several challenges, such as low throughput, high latency, and poor localization accuracy.

ISAC-Enabled V2I Networks Based on 5G NR: How Much Can the Overhead Be Reduced?

no code implementations30 Jan 2023 Yunxin Li, Fan Liu, Zhen Du, Weijie Yuan, Christos Masouros

The emergence of the fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) brings additional possibilities to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) network with improved quality of services.

Management

Robust Symbol Level Precoding for Overlay Cognitive Radio Networks

no code implementations20 Jan 2023 Lu Liu, Christos Masouros, A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper focuses on designing robust symbol-level precoding (SLP) in an overlay cognitive radio (CR) network, where the primary and secondary networks transmit signals concurrently.

Philosophy Quantization

RIS-assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Subspace Rotation Approach

no code implementations23 Oct 2022 Xiao Meng, Fan Liu, Shihang Lu, Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri, Christos Masouros

We first show that the sensing and communication (S&C) performance can be jointly improved due to the capability of the RISs to control the ISAC channel.

Sensing-Assisted Eavesdropper Estimation: An ISAC Breakthrough in Physical Layer Security

no code implementations15 Oct 2022 Nanchi Su, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros

Using the resulting information about potential Eves, we formulate secrecy rate expressions, that are a function of the Eves' estimation accuracy.

Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The Road from Separation to Integration

no code implementations2 Oct 2022 Fan Liu, Le Zheng, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros, Athina P. Petropulu, Hugh Griffiths, Yonina C. Eldar

Radar and communications (R&C) as key utilities of electromagnetic (EM) waves have fundamentally shaped human society and triggered the modern information age.

Energy-Efficient Trajectory Design of a Multi-IRS Assisted Portable Access Point

no code implementations1 Sep 2022 Nithin Babu, Marco Virgili, Mohammad Al-jarrah, Xiaoye Jing, Emad Alsusa, Petar Popovski, Andrew Forsyth, Christos Masouros, Constantinos B. Papadias

In this work, we propose a framework for energy-efficient trajectory design of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based portable access point (PAP) deployed to serve a set of ground nodes (GNs).

Scheduling

ISAC from the Sky: UAV Trajectory Design for Joint Communication and Target Localization

no code implementations6 Jul 2022 Xiaoye Jing, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Yong Zeng

In this paper, we consider an airborne integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system where a UAV, which acts both as a communication BS and a mono-static radar, flies over a given area to transmit downlink signal to a ground communication user.

Vehicular Connectivity on Complex Trajectories: Roadway-Geometry Aware ISAC Beam-tracking

no code implementations24 May 2022 Xiao Meng, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Weijie Yuan, Qixun Zhang, Zhiyong Feng

In this paper, we propose sensing-assisted beamforming designs for vehicles on arbitrarily shaped roads by relying on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) signalling. Specifically, we aim to address the limitations of conventional ISAC beam-tracking schemes that do not apply to complex road geometries.

An Experimental Proof of Concept for Integrated Sensing and Communications Waveform Design

no code implementations9 Feb 2022 Tongyang Xu, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Izzat Darwazeh

This experimental work focuses on a dual-functional radar sensing and communication framework where a single radiation waveform, either omnidirectional or directional, can realize both radar sensing and communication functions.

Pre-scaling and Codebook Design for Joint Radar and Communication Based on Index Modulation

no code implementations20 Nov 2021 Shengyang Chen, Aryan Kaushik, Christos Masouros

This paper develops an efficient index modulation (IM) approach for the joint radar-communication (JRC) system based on a multi-carrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar.

Joint Radar-Communication

Learning-Based Symbol Level Precoding: A Memory-Efficient Unsupervised Learning Approach

no code implementations15 Nov 2021 Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos

Symbol level precoding (SLP) has been proven to be an effective means of managing the interference in a multiuser downlink transmission and also enhancing the received signal power.

Model Compression

An Unsupervised Deep Unfolding Framework for robust Symbol Level Precoding

no code implementations15 Nov 2021 Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos

Symbol Level Precoding (SLP) has attracted significant research interest due to its ability to exploit interference for energy-efficient transmission.

A Memory-Efficient Learning Framework for SymbolLevel Precoding with Quantized NN Weights

no code implementations13 Oct 2021 Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos

Our results show that while SLP-DNet provides near-optimal performance, its quantized versions through SQ yield 3. 46x and 2. 64x model compression for binary-based and ternary-based SLP-SQDNets, respectively.

Model Compression Quantization

MIMO-OFDM Dual-Functional Radar-Communication Systems: Low-PAPR Waveform Design

no code implementations27 Sep 2021 Xiaoyan Hu, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu, Ronald Nissel

In this paper, we explore a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system for achieving integrated sensing and communications (ISAC).

Physical Layer Anonymous Precoding: The Path to Privacy-Preserving Communications

no code implementations18 Sep 2021 Zhongxiang Wei, Christos Masouros, H. Vincent Poor, Athina P. Petropulu, Lajos Hanzo

In contrast to traditional security and privacy designs that aim to prevent confidential information from being eavesdropped upon by adversaries, or learned by unauthorized parties, in this paper we consider designs that mask the users' identities during communication, hence resulting in anonymous communications.

Cloud Computing Privacy Preserving

Towards Multi-Functional 6G Wireless Networks: Integrating Sensing, Communication and Security

no code implementations16 Jul 2021 Zhongxiang Wei, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Nanchi Su, Athina P. Petropulu

At the same time, the sensing capability incorporated in the ISAC transmission offers unique opportunities to design secure ISAC techniques.

Secure Dual-Functional Radar-Communication Transmission: Exploiting Interference for Resilience Against Target Eavesdropping

no code implementations10 Jul 2021 Nanchi Su, Fan Liu, Zhongxiang Wei, Ya-Feng Liu, Christos Masouros

We study security solutions for dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) systems, which detect the radar target and communicate with downlink cellular users in millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless networks simultaneously.

Secure Dual-Functional Radar-Communication System via Exploiting Known Interference in the Presence of Clutter

no code implementations8 Jun 2021 Nanchi Su, Zhongxiang Wei, Christos Masouros

This paper addresses the problem that designing the transmit waveform and receive beamformer aims to maximize the receive radar SINR for secure dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems, where the undesired multi-user interference (MUI) is transformed to useful power.

An Unsupervised Learning-Based Approach for Symbol-Level-Precoding

no code implementations19 Apr 2021 Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos

This paper proposes an unsupervised learning-based precoding framework that trains deep neural networks (DNNs) with no target labels by unfolding an interior point method (IPM) proximal `log' barrier function.

Hardware Efficient Joint Radar-Communications with Hybrid Precoding and RF Chain Optimization

no code implementations16 Apr 2021 Aryan Kaushik, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu

In this paper, we aim to achieve energy efficient design with minimum hardware requirement for hybrid precoding, which enables a large number of antennas with minimal number of RF chains, and sub-arrayed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar based joint radar-communication (JRC) systems.

Joint Radar-Communication

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Joint Radar-Communications with Low-Resolution DACs

no code implementations16 Apr 2021 Onur Dizdar, Aryan Kaushik, Bruno Clerckx, Christos Masouros

In this paper, we introduce the design of a multi-antenna Joint Radar-Communication (JRC) system with Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) and low resolution Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) units.

Joint Radar-Communication

An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing

1 code implementation25 Feb 2021 J. Andrew Zhang, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Robert W. Heath Jr., Zhiyong Feng, Le Zheng, Athina Petropulu

Joint communication and radar sensing (JCR) represents an emerging research field aiming to integrate the above two functionalities into a single system, sharing a majority of hardware and signal processing modules and, in a typical case, sharing a single transmitted signal.

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing: From Optimization-Based to Location-Only Learning-Based Solutions

no code implementations15 Feb 2021 Xiaoyan Hu, Christos Masouros, Kai-Kit Wong

In this paper, we explore optimization-based and data-driven solutions in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where the user equipment (UEs) can partially offload their computation tasks to the access point (AP).

Edge-computing

Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization for Joint Radar-Communication Design

no code implementations29 Jan 2021 Fan Liu, Ya-Feng Liu, Ang Li, Christos Masouros, Yonina C. Eldar

We employ the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) as a performance metric of target estimation, under both point and extended target scenarios.

Joint Radar-Communication

Learning to Select for MIMO Radar based on Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming

no code implementations18 Jan 2021 Zhaoyi Xu, Fan Liu, Konstantinos Diamantaras, Christos Masouros, Athina Petropulu

In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient radar beampattern design framework for a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO) system, equipped with a hybrid analog-digital (HAD) beamforming structure.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Bayesian Predictive Beamforming for Vehicular Networks: A Low-overhead Joint Radar-Communication Approach

no code implementations15 May 2020 Weijie Yuan, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Jinhong Yuan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic

To accurately estimate the motion parameters of vehicles in real-time, we propose a novel message passing algorithm based on factor graph, which yields near optimal solution to the maximum a posteriori estimation.

Joint Radar-Communication

Complexity-Scalable Neural Network Based MIMO Detection With Learnable Weight Scaling

1 code implementation12 Sep 2019 Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos

This paper introduces a framework for systematic complexity scaling of deep neural network(DNN) based MIMO detectors.

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