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Joint Secrecy and Covert Communication (JSACC): An Enhanced Physical Layer Security Approach

Yanyu Cheng, Haitao Du, Liqin Hu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Pan Li · 2026

In this paper, we propose an enhanced physical layer security approach, named joint secrecy and covert communication (JSACC), which aims to improve the performance of physical layer security (PLS). Th…

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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic · 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the plan…

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Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation

Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen, Ruiqi Wang · 2026

We present Move-Then-Operate, a Vision language action framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulation into two distinct behavioral phases: coarse relocation (move) and contact-critical inter…

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When AI Meets Terahertz: A Survey on the Symbiosis of Artificial Intelligence and Terahertz Networks

Chong Han, Jingting Jiang, Zhengdong Hu, Meixia Tao, Wenjun Zhang · 2026

The Terahertz (THz) band (0.1-10 THz) has emerged as a critical frontier for future communication systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidths that enable Terabits-per-second (Tbps) wireless links and high…

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Hiding Secrets in the CSI Quotient: A Robust Wi-Fi CSI Steganography System

Jiamu Guo, Hailang Jia, Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang, Linning Peng, Liquan Chen · 2026

Physical layer (PHY) steganography conceals secrets by making subtle modifications to transmitted radio waveforms, which can be applied to establish covert communication systems. Given the widespread …

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Chain Of Interaction Benchmark (COIN): When Reasoning meets Embodied Interaction

Xianhao Wang, Xiaojian Ma, Haozhe Hu, Rongpeng Su, Yutian Cheng, Zhou Ziheng, Hangxin Liu, Lei Liu, Bin Li, Qing Li · 2026

Generalist embodied agents must perform interactive, causally-dependent reasoning, continually interacting with the environment, acquiring information, and updating plans to solve long-horizon tasks b…

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Physics-informed, Generative Adversarial Design of Funicular Shells

Ruben Lourenco, Iciar Alfaro, Beatriz Moya, Elias Cueto · 2026

Shell structures are pivotal in the fields of architecture and engineering, due to their aesthetic appeal and structural efficiency. Recently, 3D concrete printing has reignited the interest in these …

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Stealthy Cyber-Attacks on Vehicle Lateral Dynamics: A System-Theoretic Analysis

Ali Eslami, Jiangbo Yu, Mohammad Pirani · 2026

This paper studies the vehicle bicycle model under three classes of stealthy cyber-attacks: replay attacks, zero dynamics attacks, and covert attacks. Using a system-theoretic framework, we analyze th…

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When structure does not imply symmetry

Skyler R. St. Pierre, Thibault Vervenne, Ethan C. Darwin, Ellen Kuhl · 2026

Fungal protein materials exhibit inherently anisotropic microstructures formed by networks of hyphae, which suggest a natural pathway to replicate the fibrous texture of animal meat. We probe whether …

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Exploiting Scheduling Flexibility via State-Based Scheduling When Guaranteeing Worst-Case Services

Yike Xu, Mark S. Andersland · 2026

Even when providing long-run, worst-case guarantees to competing flows of unit-sized tasks, a slot-timed, constant-capacity server's scheduler may retain significant, short-run, scheduling flexibility…

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Structural Limits of Soft Fusion in Multi-Warden Covert Communication

Abbas Arghavani, Subhrakanti Dey, Anders Ahlen · 2026

This paper investigates covert wireless communication with a Fusion Center (FC) that aggregates raw energy measurements from multiple Wardens via soft fusion. Extending our prior work on power-thresho…

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When Altruism Meets Autonomy: Managing Bottleneck Congestion with Strategic Autonomous Vehicles

Kexin Wang, Haohui He, Ruolin Li · 2026

Weaving ramps are critical bottlenecks in highway networks due to conflicting traffic flows and complex interactions among heterogeneous vehicle types. In mixed-autonomy settings, the presence of cont…

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What Happens When Institutional Liquidity Enters Prediction Markets: Identification, Measurement, and a Synthetic Proof of Concept

Shaw Dalen · 2026

Prediction markets are starting to look less like crowd polls and more like electronic markets. The central question is therefore no longer only whether these markets forecast well, but what happens w…

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When Market Prices Drive the Load: Modeling, Grid-Security Analysis, and Mitigation of Data Center Workload Scheduling

Shijie Pan, Zaint A. Alexakis, Charalambos Konstantinou · 2026

Data centers (DCs) are emerging as large, geographically distributed, controllable loads whose participation in electricity markets can significantly affect grid operation, especially when cloud platf…

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When Agent Markets Arrive

Xuan Liu, Haoyang Shang, Haojian Jin · 2026

AI agents are increasingly transacting on behalf of users -- delegating tasks, spending budgets, and negotiating with unfamiliar counterparties. From skill marketplaces to agent-only bazaars, the econ…

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INTERACT: An AI-Driven Extended Reality Framework for Accesible Communication Featuring Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation and Emotion Recognition

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Andrew J. McCracken, Ilias Karachalios, Evangelos Papatheou · 2026

Video conferencing has become central to professional collaboration, yet most platforms offer limited support for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and multilingual users. The World Health Organisation estimates…

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AI-Driven Modular Services for Accessible Multilingual Education in Immersive Extended Reality Settings: Integrating Speech Processing, Translation, and Sign Language Rendering

N.D. Tantaroudas, A.J. McCracken, I. Karachalios, E. Papatheou · 2026

This work introduces a modular platform that brings together six AI services, automatic speech recognition via OpenAI Whisper, multilingual translation through Meta NLLB, speech synthesis using AWS Po…

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A Self-Calibrating SDR for High Fidelity Beam- and Null-forming Arrays

Yongjun Kim, Aditya Dhananjay, Sundeep Rangan, Sachin Shetty, C. Nicolas Barati, Michael Zappe, Kimberly Gold, Junil Choi · 2026

Null forming is increasingly essential in modern wireless systems for spectrum-sharing, anti-jamming, and covert communications in contested and congested environments. Achieving deep nulls, however, …

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Learning When to See and When to Feel: Adaptive Vision-Torque Fusion for Contact-Aware Manipulation

Jiuzhou Lei, Chang Liu, Yu She, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng · 2026

Vision-based policies have achieved a good performance in robotic manipulation due to the accessibility and richness of visual observations. However, purely visual sensing becomes insufficient in cont…

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VisG AV-HuBERT: Viseme-Guided AV-HuBERT

Aristeidis Papadopoulos, Rishabh Jain, Naomi Harte · 2026

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems nowadays integrate Large Language Model (LLM) decoders with transformer-based encoders, achieving state-of-the-art results. However, the relative contrib…

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