The paper introduces a JEPA-inspired latent field prediction model for reconstructing MIMO‑OFDM channels from sparse pilots. It maps observed CSI into latent time‑frequency tokens, predicts masked or future latent states using historical multi‑band context, and fuses these predictions with current noisy pilots to recover the full channel. Ray‑tracing experiments demonstrate that this approach reduces normalized mean square error compared to pilot‑only and direct reconstruction baselines.
By Yuzhi Yang, Brahim Mefgouda, Hang Zou, Lina Bariah, Anis Bara, Yuhuan Lu, Hao Zhang, Merouane Debbah
arXiv:2602. 11834v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While machine learning (ML)-based receiver algorithms have received a great deal of attention in the recent literature, they often suffer from poor scaling with increasing spatial multiplexing order and lack of explainability and generalization.
By Mikko Honkala, Dani Korpi, Elias Raninen, Janne M. J. Huttunen
arXiv:2604. 22005v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate yet low-latency channel state information (CSI) acquisition is essential for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems.
By Junjie Zhao, Guangming Liang, Xiaonan Liu, Dongzhu Liu
arXiv:2512. 04966v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate channel state information (CSI) underpins reliable and efficient wireless communication.
By Guangming Liang, Mingjie Yang, Dongzhu Liu, Paul Henderson, Lajos Hanzo
The paper evaluates eight existing pilot‑aided channel estimators for 5G‑NR and LTE across various 3GPP channel models and numerologies, showing that no single estimator dominates under all conditions. It introduces a condition‑adaptive multi‑agent orchestrator that selects the best estimator per operating scenario, achieving performance within 1.07 dB of an oracle and improving NMSE by up to 3.6 dB at high SNR. The orchestrator runs agents in parallel, yielding near‑single‑estimator latency while scaling wall‑clock time roughly inversely with the number of workers.
By I. Zakir Ahmed, Hamid Sadjadpour
arXiv:2507. 09627v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Next-generation wireless technologies such as 6G aim to meet demanding requirements such as ultra-high data rates, low latency, and enhanced connectivity.
By Muhammad Kamran Saeed, Ashfaq Khokhar, Shakil Ahmed
The paper introduces DRIFT, a lightweight framework for joint channel estimation and prediction in low Earth orbit non-terrestrial networks, aiming to reduce pilot overhead by using data-driven processing after the initial slot. DRIFT refines data-aided channel estimates and forecasts future channel responses with low computational cost, offering two variants based on convolutional and LSTM layers. Simulations show up to 12% spectral efficiency gain over conventional pilot-based systems, with under 200k multiply-accumulate operations suitable for on-board satellite implementation.
By Bruno De Filippo, Carla Amatetti, Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli
The paper tackles the challenge of converting uplink to downlink channel covariance matrices in FDD massive MIMO systems, where learning‑based methods lose accuracy as the antenna count grows. It identifies that the mean angle of arrival creates a phase ramp whose oscillation rate increases with array size, making fixed‑size datasets sparse. The authors propose a deramping technique that estimates and removes this ramp before learning, reducing estimation error across three different learners and maintaining superiority over model‑based benchmarks at large array sizes.
By Melih Can Zerin
arXiv:2608. 03319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Future integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) architectures separate the sensing entity (SE) that acquires measurements from the sensing function (SF) that performs inference, creating a need for compact, task-oriented feedback on the SE-SF interface.
By Shiv Shankar, Radha Krishna Ganti, J Klutto Milleth
arXiv:2609.14735v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deep Learning (DL)-based channel estimation has shown high accuracy and low latency in terrestrial 5G NR, but Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Non-Terrestrial N...
By Miguel Camelo Botero, Nina Slamnik-Krije\v{s}torac, Johann Marquez-Barja
The paper introduces a semantic communication approach for CSI feedback in FDD massive MIMO, where the UE sends a learned embedding optimized for beam selection rather than reconstructing the full channel. Experiments show that an 8‑dimensional embedding derived from just 43 NR CSI‑RS pilots in the angular‑delay domain achieves the best beam prediction accuracy, surpassing methods that use the entire 512‑subcarrier channel. This demonstrates that beam‑relevant information is inherently low‑dimensional, allowing the semantic encoder to discard irrelevant details and transmit only the intent needed for beam selection.
By Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Konstantinos Vandikas, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan
arXiv:2606. 04752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers consuming multi-channel scalar signals must embed $C$ simultaneous values into one $d_{\text{model}}$-dimensional vector per time step.
By Ossi Lehtinen