no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri, Walid R. Ghanem, Christina Bonfert, Robert Schober
In this paper, we investigate joint 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory planning and resource allocation for rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2024 • Tuo Wu, Cunhua Pan, Kangda Zhi, Hong Ren, Maged Elkashlan, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Robert Schober, Xiaohu You
Then our objective is to regain the information lost from the faulty elements and reconstruct the complete high-dimensional RIS information for localization.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2024 • Gui Zhou, Moritz Garkisch, Zhendong Peng, Cunhua Pan, Robert Schober
Three detection and estimation schemes are proposed based on radar rainbow beams for estimation of the users' angles, distances, and velocities, which are then exploited for communication beamformer design.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2024 • Hedieh Ajam, Vahid Jamali, Bernhard Schmauss, Robert Schober
The line-of-sight (LOS) requirement of free-space optical (FSO) systems can be relaxed by employing optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs).
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2024 • Moritz Garkisch, Sebastian Lotter, Gui Zhou, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
The proposed UT algorithm requires only a low overhead for direction and channel estimation and avoids outdated IRS phase shifts.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2024 • Cheng Cheng, Sovan Das, Stefan Videv, Adrian Spark, Sina Babadi, Aravindh Krishnamoorthy, Changmin Lee, Daniel Grieder, Kathleen Hartnett, Paul Rudy, James Raring, Marzieh Najafi, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, Robert Schober, Harald Haas
In this paper, we demonstrate the communication capabilities of light-fidelity (LiFi) systems based on highbrightness and high-bandwidth integrated laser-based sources in a surface mount device (SMD) packaging platform.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2024 • Mohamadreza Delbari, George C. Alexandropoulos, Robert Schober, Vahid Jamali
In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2023 • Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri, Victor Mustieles-Pérez, Martin Vossiek, Gerhard Krieger, Robert Schober
To this end, we adopt as sensing performance metrics the interferometric coherence, i. e., the local correlation between the two co-registered UAV radar images, and the height of ambiguity (HoA), which together are a measure for the accuracy with which the InSAR system can estimate the height of ground objects.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2023 • Jingzhi Hu, Zhe Chen, Tianyue Zheng, Robert Schober, Jun Luo
Our simulation results confirm that HoloFed achieves a 57% lower positioning error variance compared to a beam-scanning baseline and can effectively adapt to diverse environments.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Li Dong, Feibo Jiang, Yubo Peng, Kezhi Wang, Kun Yang, Cunhua Pan, Robert Schober
Next-generation edge intelligence is anticipated to bring huge benefits to various applications, e. g., offloading systems.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2023 • Nikita Shanin, Hedieh Ajam, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, Laura Cottatellucci, Robert Schober
Finally, we highlight a tradeoff between the information rate and harvested power in SLIPT systems and demonstrate that the proposed optimal distribution yields significantly higher achievable information rates compared to uniformly distributed transmit signals, which are optimal for linear optical information RXs.
no code implementations • 5 May 2023 • Sebastian Lotter, Tom Bellmann, Sophie Marx, Mara Wesinger, Lukas Brand, Maximilian Schäfer, Dagmar Fischer, Robert Schober
CDD has been a major research focus in the field of molecular communications (MC) with the goal to aid the design and optimization of CDD systems with communication theoretical analysis.
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2023 • Kangda Zhi, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Kok Keong Chai, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Robert Schober, Xiaohu You
Our analytical results indicate that a limited part of the XL-array receives the majority of the signal power in the near field, which leads to a notion of visibility region (VR) of a user.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2023 • Hedieh Ajam, Marzieh Najafi, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
We also consider the impact of linear, quadratic, and focusing phase shift profiles across the IRS on the power collected at the Rx lens for different IRS sizes.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2023 • Ata Khalili, Atefeh Rezaei, Dongfang Xu, Robert Schober
In this paper, we investigate joint resource allocation and trajectory design for multi-user multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC).
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2022 • Chang Liu, Xuemeng Liu, Zhiqiang Wei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober
With the proposed predictive approach, we can avoid full-scale CSI estimation and facilitate low-dimensional CE for transmit beamforming design such that the signaling overhead is reduced by a scale of $\frac{1}{N}$, where $N$ is the number of IRS elements.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2022 • Moritz Garkisch, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
In this paper, we present a novel mobile user tracking (UT) scheme for codebook-based intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) systems.
1 code implementation • 21 Oct 2022 • Rui Huang, Vincent W. S. Wong, Robert Schober
In the proposed system, RS facilitates the exploitation of the shared interests of the users in VR streaming, and IRS creates additional propagation channels to support the transmission of high-resolution 360-degree videos.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2022 • Vahid Jamali, Walid Ghanem, Robert Schober, H. Vincent Poor
The performance characterization of communication systems assisted by large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) significantly depends on the adopted models for the underlying channels.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2022 • Christian Herglotz, Matthias Kränzler, Robert Schober, André Kaup
We discuss all relevant energy sinks, highlight dependencies with quality-of-service variables as well as video properties, review energy consumption models for different devices from the literature, and aggregate these existing models into a global model for the overall energy consumption of a generic online video service.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2022 • Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri, Walid Ghanem, Christina Knill, Robert Schober
In this paper, we study the trajectory and resource optimization for lightweight rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2022 • Friedemann Laue, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
In order to study the impact of the phase-shift design on the device activity detection, we derive a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) based detector and present an analytical expression for the probability of detection.
no code implementations • 5 May 2022 • Hedieh Ajam, Marzieh Najafi, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
The line-of-sight (LOS) requirement of free-space optical (FSO) systems can be relaxed by employing optical relays and optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs).
no code implementations • 14 Apr 2022 • Sebastian Lotter, Michael T. Barros, Robert Schober, Maximilian Schäfer
The proposed SMC model is the first that allows studying the impact of the characteristic dynamics of the main postsynaptic receptor types on synaptic signal transmission.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2022 • Lukas Brand, Moritz Garkisch, Sebastian Lotter, Maximilian Schäfer, Andreas Burkovski, Heinrich Sticht, Kathrin Castiglione, Robert Schober
Hence, in media modulation based MC, the TX modulates information into the state of the signaling molecules.
no code implementations • 14 Jan 2022 • Sebastian Lotter, Maximilian Schäfer, Robert Schober
In synaptic molecular communication (MC), the activation of postsynaptic receptors by neurotransmitters (NTs) is governed by a stochastic reaction-diffusion process.
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2021 • Hedieh Ajam, Marzieh Najafi, Vahid Jamali, Bernhard Schmauss, Robert Schober
Our simulation results validate the accuracy of the proposed analytical channel model for IRS-assisted FSO systems and confirm that this model is applicable for both large and intermediate IRS-receiver lens distances.
no code implementations • 13 May 2021 • Vahid Jamali, Hedieh Ajam, Marzieh Najafi, Bernhard Schmauss, Robert Schober, H. Vincent Poor
Free-space optical (FSO) systems are able to offer the high data-rate, secure, and cost-efficient communication links required for applications such as wireless front- and backhauling for 5G and 6G communication networks.
no code implementations • 10 May 2021 • Friedemann Laue, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
This paper studies intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted active device detection.
no code implementations • 26 Apr 2021 • Sebastian Lotter, Lukas Brand, Maximilian Schäfer, Robert Schober
In particular, in most end-to-end models for airborne virus transmission, it is neglected that the stochastic spread of IAs through imperfectly fitted face masks depends on the dynamics of the breathing of the wearer.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2021 • Zhenyu Xiao, Lipeng Zhu, Yanming Liu, Pengfei Yi, Rui Zhang, Xiang-Gen Xia, Robert Schober
The utilization of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency bands is a promising direction for UAV communications, where large antenna arrays can be packed in a small area on the UAV to perform three-dimensional (3D) beamforming.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2021 • Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Jiguang He, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Henk Wymeersch, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober, Symeon Chatzinotas, Markku Juntti
In this paper, we provide an overview of a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) architecture, in which only a few elements are active and connected to power amplifiers and radio frequency chains.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Qingqing Wu, Xiaobo Zhou, Robert Schober
Although adopting different IRS phase shifts for DL WPT and UL WIT, i. e., dynamic IRS beamforming, is in principle possible but incurs additional signaling overhead and computational complexity, it is an open problem whether it is actually beneficial.
Information Theory Hardware Architecture Emerging Technologies Networking and Internet Architecture Information Theory
no code implementations • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2021 • Rui Huang, Vincent W.S. Wong, Robert Schober
Grant-free multiple access (GFMA) is a promising paradigm to efficiently support uplink access of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2021 • Wayan Wicke, Harald Unterweger, Jens Kirchner, Lukas Brand, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Doaa Ahmed, Vahid Jamali, Christoph Alexiou, Georg Fischer, Robert Schober
The proposed CIR model is shown to consistently capture the experimentally observed distance-dependent impulse response peak heights and peak decays for transmission distances from 5cm to 40cm.
Emerging Technologies
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2021 • Aravindh Krishnamoorthy, Robert Schober
In this paper, we consider the precoder design for an under-loaded or critically loaded downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication system.
Information Theory Signal Processing Information Theory
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2020 • Woongsup Lee, Robert Schober
Moreover, our results show that not only the resource allocation strategy but also the CSI encoding strategy can be efficiently determined using a DNN.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2020 • Qingqing Wu, Jie Xu, Yong Zeng, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Robert Schober, A. Lee Swindlehurst
On the other hand, providing such communication services simultaneously for both UAV and ground users poses new challenges due to the need for ubiquitous 3D signal coverage as well as the strong air-ground network interference.
no code implementations • 1 Oct 2020 • Hedieh Ajam, Marzieh Najafi, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober
In this paper, we develop an analytical channel model for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted free space optical (FSO) systems.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2020 • Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu, Li Guo, Jiaru Lin, Robert Schober
Based on the obtained channel power gain map, the communication-aware robot path planing problem is solved by exploiting graph theory.
no code implementations • 24 Sep 2020 • Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu, Li Guo, Jiaru Lin, Robert Schober
Based on the obtained channel power gain map, the communication-aware robot path planing problem is solved as a shortest path problem by exploiting graph theory.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2020 • Jingzhi Hu, Hongliang Zhang, Lingyang Song, Robert Schober, H. Vincent Poor
In this paper, we consider a cellular Internet of UAVs, where the UAVs execute sensing tasks through cooperative sensing and transmission to minimize the age of information (AoI).
1 code implementation • 3 Jul 2020 • Maximilian Schäfer, Wayan Wicke, Lukas Brand, Rudolf Rabenstein, Robert Schober
The propagation characteristics of the particles can be categorized into three different regimes: The flow dominant regime where the influence of diffusion on the particle transport is negligible, the dispersive regime where diffusion has a much stronger impact than flow, and the mixed regime where both effects are important.
Emerging Technologies Computational Physics
1 code implementation • 10 Jun 2020 • Aravindh Krishnamoorthy, Robert Schober
The proposed ST MIMO-NOMA schemes avoid channel inversion at transmitter and receiver and take advantage of the null spaces of the MIMO channels of the users, which is beneficial for the ergodic achievable rate performance.
Information Theory Information Theory
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2020 • Aravindh Krishnamoorthy, Meng Huang, Robert Schober
In this paper, we consider the downlink precoder design for two-user power-domain multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems.
Information Theory Information Theory
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2020 • Marzieh Najafi, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober, Vincent H. Poor
Based on this model, one can design the phase shifts of the unit cells of a tile offline for the support of several transmission modes and then select the best mode online for a given channel realization.
no code implementations • 18 May 2020 • Sebastian Lotter, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Robert Schober
In this paper, we develop a comprehensive channel model of the tripartite synapse encompassing a three-dimensional, finite-size spatial model of the synaptic cleft, molecule uptake at the presynaptic neuron and at glial cells, reversible binding to individual receptors at the postsynaptic neuron, and spillover to the extrasynaptic space.
1 code implementation • 5 May 2020 • Aravindh Krishnamoorthy, Zhiguo Ding, Robert Schober
In this paper, we investigate the downlink precoder design for two-user power-domain multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA).
Information Theory Information Theory
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2019 • Sebastian Lotter, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Robert Schober
In this paper, we develop a comprehensive channel model for synaptic DMC encompassing a spatial model of the synaptic cleft, molecule re-uptake at the presynaptic neuron, and reversible binding to individual receptors at the postsynaptic neuron.
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2019 • Malong Ke, Zhen Gao, Yongpeng Wu, Xiqi Gao, Robert Schober
This paper considers massive access in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and proposes an adaptive active user detection and channel estimation scheme based on compressive sensing.