In this letter, we investigate a novel quadrature spatial scattering modulation (QSSM) transmission technique based on millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, in which the transmitter generates two orthogonal beams targeting candidate scatterers in the channel to carry the real and imaginary parts of the conventional signal, respectively. Meanwhile, the maximum likelihood (ML) detector is adopted at the receiver to recover the received beams and signals. Based on the ML detector, we derive the closed-form average bit error probability (ABEP) expression of the QSSM scheme. Furthermore, we evaluate the asymptotic ABEP expression of the proposed scheme. Monte Carlo simulations verify the exactness and tightness of the derivation results. It is shown that the ABEP performance of QSSM is better than that of traditional spatial scattering modulation.
The advancement of Virtual Reality (VR) technology is focused on improving its immersiveness, supporting multiuser Virtual Experiences (VEs), and enabling the users to move freely within their VEs while still being confined within specialized VR setups through Redirected Walking (RDW). To meet their extreme data-rate and latency requirements, future VR systems will require supporting wireless networking infrastructures operating in millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequencies that leverage highly directional communication in both transmission and reception through beamforming and beamsteering. We propose the use of predictive context-awareness to optimize transmitter and receiver-side beamforming and beamsteering. By predicting users' short-term lateral movements in multiuser VR setups with Redirected Walking (RDW), transmitter-side beamforming and beamsteering can be optimized through Line-of-Sight (LoS) "tracking" in the users' directions. At the same time, predictions of short-term orientational movements can be utilized for receiver-side beamforming for coverage flexibility enhancements. We target two open problems in predicting these two context information instances: i) predicting lateral movements in multiuser VR settings with RDW, and ii) generating synthetic head rotation datasets for training orientational movements predictors. Our experimental results demonstrate that Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks feature promising accuracy in predicting lateral movements, and context-awareness stemming from VEs further enhances this accuracy. Additionally, we show that a TimeGAN-based approach for orientational data generation can create synthetic samples that closely match experimentally obtained ones.
Controller tuning is a vital step to ensure the controller delivers its designed performance. DiffTune has been proposed as an automatic tuning method that unrolls the dynamical system and controller into a computational graph and uses auto-differentiation to obtain the gradient for the controller's parameter update. However, DiffTune uses the vanilla gradient descent to iteratively update the parameter, in which the performance largely depends on the choice of the learning rate (as a hyperparameter). In this paper, we propose to use hyperparameter-free methods to update the controller parameters. We find the optimal parameter update by maximizing the loss reduction, where a predicted loss based on the approximated state and control is used for the maximization. Two methods are proposed to optimally update the parameters and are compared with related variants in simulations on a Dubin's car and a quadrotor. Simulation experiments show that the proposed first-order method outperforms the hyperparameter-based methods and is more robust than the second-order hyperparameter-free methods.
This paper presents a boundary element method (BEM) for computing the energy transmittance of a singly-periodic grating in 2D for a wide frequency band, which is of engineering interest in various fields with possible applications to acoustic metamaterial design. The proposed method is based on the Pad\'e approximants of the response. The high-order frequency derivatives of the sound pressure necessary to evaluate the approximants are evaluated by a novel fast BEM accelerated by the fast-multipole and hierarchical matrix methods combined with the automatic differentiation. The target frequency band is divided adaptively, and the Pad\'e approximation is used in each subband so as to accurately estimate the transmittance for a wide frequency range. Through some numerical examples, we confirm that the proposed method can efficiently and accurately give the transmittance even when some anomalies and stopband exist in the target band.
Ultra-reliable low latency communications (uRLLC) is adopted in the fifth generation (5G) mobile networks to better support mission-critical applications that demand high level of reliability and low latency. With the aid of well-established multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) information theory, uRLLC in the future 6G is expected to provide enhanced capability towards extreme connectivity. Since the latency constraint can be represented equivalently by blocklength, channel coding theory at finite block-length plays an important role in the theoretic analysis of uRLLC. On the basis of Polyanskiy's and Yang's asymptotic results, we first derive the exact close-form expressions for the expectation and variance of channel dispersion. Then, the bound of average maximal achievable rate is given for massive MIMO systems in ideal independent and identically distributed fading channels. This is the study to reveal the underlying connections among the fundamental parameters in MIMO transmissions in a concise and complete close-form formula. Most importantly, the inversely proportional law observed therein implies that the latency can be further reduced at expense of spatial degrees of freedom.
The minimum covariance determinant (MCD) estimator is ubiquitous in multivariate analysis, the critical step of which is to select a subset of a given size with the lowest sample covariance determinant. The concentration step (C-step) is a common tool for subset-seeking; however, it becomes computationally demanding for high-dimensional data. To alleviate the challenge, we propose a depth-based algorithm, termed as \texttt{FDB}, which replaces the optimal subset with the trimmed region induced by statistical depth. We show that the depth-based region is consistent with the MCD-based subset under a specific class of depth notions, for instance, the projection depth. With the two suggested depths, the \texttt{FDB} estimator is not only computationally more efficient but also reaches the same level of robustness as the MCD estimator. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to assess the empirical performance of our estimators. We also validate the computational efficiency and robustness of our estimators under several typical tasks such as principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, image denoise and outlier detection on real-life datasets. A R package \textit{FDB} and potential extensions are available in the Supplementary Materials.
In conventional backscatter communication (BackCom) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) and frequency division multiple access (FDMA) are generally adopted for multiuser backscattering due to their simplicity in implementation. However, as the number of backscatter devices (BDs) proliferates, there will be a high overhead under the traditional centralized control techniques, and the inter-user coordination is unaffordable for the passive BDs, which are of scarce concern in existing works and remain unsolved. To this end, in this paper, we propose a slotted ALOHA-based random access for BackCom systems, in which each BD is randomly chosen and is allowed to coexist with one active device for hybrid multiple access. To excavate and evaluate the performance, a resource allocation problem for max-min transmission rate is formulated, where transmit antenna selection, receive beamforming design, reflection coefficient adjustment, power control, and access probability determination are jointly considered. To deal with this intractable problem, we first transform the objective function with the max-min form into an equivalent linear one, and then decompose the resulting problem into three sub-problems. Next, a block coordinate descent (BCD)-based greedy algorithm with a penalty function, successive convex approximation, and linear programming are designed to obtain sub-optimal solutions for tractable analysis. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms benchmark algorithms in terms of transmission rate and fairness.
Backscatter communication (BackCom), one of the core technologies to realize zero-power communication, is expected to be a pivotal paradigm for the next generation of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the "strong" direct link (DL) interference (DLI) is traditionally assumed to be harmful, and generally drowns out the "weak" backscattered signals accordingly, thus deteriorating the performance of BackCom. In contrast to the previous efforts to eliminate the DLI, in this paper, we exploit the constructive interference (CI), in which the DLI contributes to the backscattered signal. To be specific, our objective is to maximize the received signal power by jointly optimizing the receive beamforming vectors and tag selection factors, which is, however, non-convex and difficult to solve due to constraints on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. In order to solve this problem, we first decompose the original problem, and then propose two algorithms to solve the sub-problem with beamforming design via a change of variables and semi-definite programming (SDP) and a greedy algorithm to solve the sub-problem with tag selection. In order to gain insight into the CI, we consider a special case with the single-antenna reader to reveal the channel angle between the backscattering link (BL) and the DL, in which the DLI will become constructive. Simulation results show that significant performance gain can always be achieved in the proposed algorithms compared with the traditional algorithms without the DL in terms of the strength of the received signal. The derived constructive channel angle for the BackCom system with the single-antenna reader is also confirmed by simulation results.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is envisioned to play a key role in future wireless technologies, with deep neural networks (DNNs) enabling digital receivers to learn to operate in challenging communication scenarios. However, wireless receiver design poses unique challenges that fundamentally differ from those encountered in traditional deep learning domains. The main challenges arise from the limited power and computational resources of wireless devices, as well as from the dynamic nature of wireless communications, which causes continual changes to the data distribution. These challenges impair conventional AI based on highly-parameterized DNNs, motivating the development of adaptive, flexible, and light-weight AI for wireless communications, which is the focus of this article. Here, we propose that AI-based design of wireless receivers requires rethinking of the three main pillars of AI: architecture, data, and training algorithms. In terms of architecture, we review how to design compact DNNs via model-based deep learning. Then, we discuss how to acquire training data for deep receivers without compromising spectral efficiency. Finally, we review efficient, reliable, and robust training algorithms via meta-learning and generalized Bayesian learning. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the complementary effectiveness of each of the surveyed methods. We conclude by presenting opportunities for future research on the development of practical deep receivers
This letter proposes a new user cooperative offloading protocol called user reciprocity in backscatter communication (BackCom)-aided mobile edge computing systems with efficient computation, whose quintessence is that each user can switch alternately between the active or the BackCom mode in different slots, and one user works in the active mode and the other user works in the BackCom mode in each time slot. In particular, the user in the BackCom mode can always use the signal transmitted by the user in the active mode for more data transmission in a spectrum-sharing manner. To evaluate the proposed protocol, a computation efficiency (CE) maximization-based optimization problem is formulated by jointly power control, time scheduling, reflection coefficient adjustment, and computing frequency allocation, while satisfying various physical constraints on the maximum energy budget, the computing frequency threshold, the minimum computed bits, and harvested energy threshold. To solve this non-convex problem, Dinkelbach's method and quadratic transform are first employed to transform the complex fractional forms into linear ones. Then, an iterative algorithm is designed by decomposing the resulting problem to obtain the suboptimal solution. The closed-form solutions for the transmit power, the RC, and the local computing frequency are provided for more insights. Besides, the analytical performance gain with the reciprocal mode is also derived. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms benchmark schemes regarding the CE.
Port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems provide a framework for modeling, analysis and control of complex dynamical systems, where the complexity might result from multi-physical couplings, non-trivial domains and diverse nonlinearities. A major benefit of the PH representation is the explicit formulation of power interfaces, so-called ports, which allow for a power-preserving interconnection of subsystems to compose flexible multibody systems in a modular way. In this work, we present a PH representation of geometrically exact strings with nonlinear material behaviour. Furthermore, using structure-preserving discretization techniques a corresponding finite-dimensional PH state space model is developed. Applying mixed finite elements, the semi-discrete model retains the PH structure and the ports (pairs of velocities and forces) on the discrete level. Moreover, discrete derivatives are used in order to obtain an energy-consistent time-stepping method. The numerical properties of the newly devised model are investigated in a representative example. The developed PH state space model can be used for structure-preserving simulation and model order reduction as well as feedforward and feedback control design.