Papers for

telecommunications hardware developers

Papers whose findings have a practical use for this group, as judged from the abstract. Open a paper to read what it means in practice.

Fluid antenna reliability tested with limited historical data and Gaussian methods

Finite-History Outage Certification for Partially Observed Fluid Antenna Receivers

Abstract: Fluid antenna receivers can select a service position from partial port observations, but finite historical data leave uncertainty in the covariance used for that decision. We develop deployment-before-use reliability certification for a frozen partial-observation rule. A proper predictive density defines a history-based parameter region. Gaussian covariance envelopes, shared conditional-probability bounds and selector enclosures provide simultaneous risk bounds over continuous parameters and discontinuous port decisions. Separate history-coverage and integration budgets limit erroneous positive certification to 0.05 for a single qualification procedure under the stated stationary model and numerical assumptions. Confidence-set inclusion allows a new independent history to reuse the risk computation with the rule unchanged. In a structured Gaussian example with 32 candidate positions, five noisy probes and target outage 0.001, all 282 risk groups are qualified; the largest upper bound is 0.000999748. A separate coupled comparison gives a current-rule outage interval of $[7.6820,9.1266]\times10^{-4}$ and resolves lower outage than two observed-port controls using the same historical fit. One independently recalibrated history reuses the certificate without additional risk sampling. Unresolved and adverse-member controls delimit this reuse.

Thu 15 OctInformation Theory
The gist
Deciding where to place fluid antennas based on limited past signal measurements can be tricky because the uncertainty in data can lead to wrong choices. The authors developed a way to check ahead of time if the antenna’s selection method will be reliable, even when only partial past observations are available. They use mathematical tools like Gaussian models to estimate risks and make confident guarantees about the antenna’s performance. Their approach was tested on a scenario with many possible antenna positions and noisy data, showing very low chances of outage.
Open → 2610.21252v1

Echo state networks improve signal recovery in full duplex MIMO radios

Echo State Network (ESN) for Signal Recovery in RF-Impaired IBFD MIMO Systems

Abstract: In-band full-duplex (IBFD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems enable simultaneous transmission and reception on the same frequency band, improving spectral efficiency for next-generation wireless networks. However, IBFD-MIMO systems are susceptible to self-interference (SI), which may overpower signals of interest (SOI). In this scenario, blind source separation (BSS) algorithms can be adopted to remove SI and perform joint sensing and communication (JSAC), but BSS algorithms mostly assume an idealized linear and quasi-stationary signal model, which does not hold under realistic radio frequency (RF) impairments, such as I/Q imbalance, carrier frequency offset (CFO), phase noise, and power amplifier nonlinearity. This paper proposes a two-stage echo state network (ESN)-based scheme that is superior to BSS under these realistic conditions. A frozen ESN is trained offline to characterize the static SI path, while an adaptive ESN, updated online via recursive least squares, tracks the time-varying SOI path using sparse pilot symbols. We evaluate the proposed scheme's SOI recovery performance and acquisition speed with different block sizes, comparing it against other recurrent neural networks (RNN), such as long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU). Simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms BSS, LSTM, and GRU in both efficiency and SOI recovery, demonstrating the viability of ESNs for real-time, nonlinear self-interference cancellation in realistic IBFD MIMO systems.

Sun 20 SeptArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Full duplex MIMO wireless systems send and receive signals simultaneously on the same frequency to boost network speed. However, these systems face the problem of self-interference, where their own transmissions drown out incoming signals. Traditional methods to separate signals assume simple conditions that don't hold when the radio hardware has imperfections. The authors propose using a special kind of recurrent neural network called an echo state network, trained partly offline and partly online, to better cancel out interference and recover the signals of interest. Their method works better and faster than previous approaches, making it more practical for real-world wireless devices.
Open → 2609.23945v1

Radio frequency hardware runs neural networks more efficiently on edge

Radio-Frequency Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract: Running artificial intelligence (AI) models directly on edge devices such as smartphones, wearables, and drones offers low latency, pervasive scalability, and data privacy, but these devices rarely carry the computing capability that modern neural networks demand. Edge accelerators have been developed in response, yet each adds computing hardware to devices already constrained in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C). An alternative lies in what these devices already carry: the frequency mixer in every wireless radio multiplies signals in time, natively performing convolution in the frequency domain. Here we introduce radio-frequency convolutional neural networks (RF-CNNs), which repurpose existing communication hardware for CNN inference. Multi-channel convolutions are mapped onto frequency tones for a passive mixer to execute in a single pass. We experimentally demonstrate that RF-CNN runs deep CNNs up to 26.4 million parameters and nine layers from classification of wireless signals and images to controllable image generation, close to full-precision performance. Because the weights arrive over the air and the analog hardware is shared with communication, the edge device spends energy only on data preparation and readout-down to 0.72 femtojoules per multiply-accumulate, two orders of magnitude less than it would cost on an added digital processor. These results suggest that deployed wireless infrastructure can bring efficient, state-of-the-art AI inference to the billions of devices it already connects.

Wed 16 SeptMachine LearningEmerging Technologies
The gist
Running AI models on small devices like phones or drones is hard because these devices don’t have powerful computers. The authors found that parts of wireless radios already in these devices can be used to do some AI calculations faster and with less energy. They developed a way to run deep neural networks using the radio’s frequency mixing, which normally handles wireless signals. This method saves energy and space because it uses hardware already present, and it works nearly as well as standard digital methods.
Open → 2609.19279v1