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Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve Expansion for Fluid Antenna Systems: Information-Theoretic Optimal Channel Compression and Outage Analysis

Tuo Wu · 2026

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) achieve spatial diversity by dynamically switching among $N$ densely packed ports, but the resulting spatially correlated Rayleigh channels render exact outage analysis int…

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk · 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to …

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StepNav: Structured Trajectory Priors for Efficient and Multimodal Visual Navigation

Xubo Luo, Aodi Wu, Haodong Han, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu, Ruisuo Wang · 2026

Visual navigation is fundamental to autonomous systems, yet generating reliable trajectories in cluttered and uncertain environments remains a core challenge. Recent generative models promise end-to-e…

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MIMO Array Calibration in Non-stationary Channels with Residual Surfaces and Slepian Spherical Harmonics

Oliver Kirkpatrick, Santiago Ozafrain, Christopher Gilliam, Beth Jelfs · 2026

The fundamental mechanism driving MIMO beamforming is the relative phases of signals departing the transmit array and arriving at the receive array. If a propagation channel affects all transmitted si…

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part II: Wide-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten · 2025

Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coup…

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part I: Narrow-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten · 2025

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) envisioned for 6G enable high-resolution sensing. However, the ELAAs worked in extremely high frequency will push operation into the near-field region, whe…

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Channel State Information Preprocessing for CSI-based Physical-Layer Authentication Using Reconciliation

Atsu Kokuvi Angelo Passah, Rodrigo C. de Lamare, Arsenia Chorti · 2025

This paper introduces an adaptive preprocessing technique to enhance the accuracy of channel state information-based physical layer authentication (CSI-PLA) alleviating CSI variations and inconsistenc…

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CATNUS: Coordinate-Aware Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation Using T1-Weighted MRI

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Samuel W. Remedios, Savannah P. Hays, Blake E. Dewey, Alexa Colinco, Jiachen Zhuo, Dan Benjamini, Jerry L. Prince · 2025

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei from magnetic resonance images is important due to the distinct roles of these nuclei in overall brain function and to their differential involvement in neurol…

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Near Field Tapering with Slepian Window: Balancing the Range Angle Sidelobe Trade off

Ahmed Hussain, Ahmed Sultan, Asmaa Abdallah, Abdulkadir Celik, Ahmed M. Eltawil · 2025

Near-field beamforming enables target discrimination in both range (axial) and angle (lateral) dimensions. Elevated sidelobes along either dimension, however, increase susceptibility to interference a…

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Basis Expansion Extrapolation based Long-Term Channel Prediction for Massive MIMO OTFS Systems

Yanfeng Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yujie Liu, Yong Liang Guan, David Gonzalez G., Vincent K. N. Lau · 2025

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) combined with orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising technique for high-mobility scenarios. However, its performance could…

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Simulation-based Approach for Fast Optimal Control of a Stefan Problem with Application to Cell Therapy

Prakitr Srisuma, George Barbastathis, Richard D. Braatz · 2024

This article describes a new, efficient way of finding control and state trajectories in optimal control problems by reformulation as a system of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). The optimal c…

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A small-gain criterion for 2-contraction of large scale interconnected systems

David Angeli, Davide Martini, Giacomo Innocenti, Alberto Tesi · 2024

Despite modular conditions to guarantee stability for large-scale systems have been widely studied, few methods are available to tackle the case of networks with multiple equilibria. This paper introd…

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Quasi-Newton OMP Approach for Super-Resolution Channel Estimation and Extrapolation

Yi Zeng, Mingguang Han, Xiaoguang Li, Tiejun Li · 2024

Channel estimation and extrapolation are fundamental issues in MIMO communication systems. In this paper, we proposed the quasi-Newton orthogonal matching pursuit (QNOMP) approach to overcome these is…

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RATNUS: Rapid, Automatic Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation using Multimodal MRI inputs

Anqi Feng, Zhangxing Bian, Blake E. Dewey, Alexa Gail Colinco, Jiachen Zhuo, Jerry L. Prince · 2024

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei is important for better understanding brain function and improving disease treatment. Traditional segmentation methods often rely on a single T1-weighted image…

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Physical Layer Authentication Using Information Reconciliation

Atsu Kokuvi Angelo Passah, Rodrigo C. de Lamare, Arsenia Chorti · 2024

User authentication in future wireless communication networks is expected to become more complicated due to their large scale and heterogeneity. Furthermore, the computational complexity of classical …

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Spectrum Coexistence of Satellite-borne Passive Radiometry and Terrestrial Next-G Networks

Mohammad Koosha, Nicholas Mastronarde · 2024

Spectrum coexistence between terrestrial Next-G cellular networks and space-borne remote sensing (RS) is now gaining attention. One major question is how this would impact RS equipment. In this study,…

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Slepian Beamforming: Broadband Beamforming using Streaming Least Squares

Coleman DeLude, Mark A. Davenport, Justin Romberg · 2023

In this paper we revisit the classical problem of estimating a signal as it impinges on a multi-sensor array. We focus on the case where the impinging signal's bandwidth is appreciable and is operatin…

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Thalamic nuclei segmentation from T$_1$-weighted MRI: unifying and benchmarking state-of-the-art methods with young and old cohorts

Brendan Williams, Dan Nguyen, Julie Vidal, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Manojkumar Saranathan · 2023

The thalamus and its constituent nuclei are critical for a broad range of cognitive and sensorimotor processes, and implicated in many neurological and neurodegenerative conditions. However, the funct…

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Robust thalamic nuclei segmentation from T1-weighted MRI

Julie P. Vidal, Lola Danet, Patrice Peran, Jeremie Pariente, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Natalie M. Zahr, Emmanuel J. Barbeau, Manojkumar Saranathan · 2023

Accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei, crucial for understanding their role in healthy cognition and in pathologies, is challenging to achieve on standard T1-weighted (T1w) magnetic resonance imagi…

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Topological Slepians: Maximally Localized Representations of Signals over Simplicial Complexes

Claudio Battiloro, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Sergio Barbarossa · 2022

This paper introduces topological Slepians, i.e., a novel class of signals defined over topological spaces (e.g., simplicial complexes) that are maximally concentrated on the topological domain (e.g.,…

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