This paper proposes a novel downlink precoding method for a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) network, requiring no channel state information sharing between the access points via fronthaul l...
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This paper proposes a novel downlink precoding method for a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) network, requiring no channel state information sharing between the access points via fronthaul links. By drawing analogies between a CF-mMIMO network and an artificial neural network, the proposed algorithm borrows the idea of backpropagation to train the precoders and the combiners through over-the-air ping-pong signaling between the access points and user equipments. It utilizes manifolds optimization to meet the per-AP power constraint and is named as distributed quasi-neural network precoding on manifold (DQNPM). The DQNPM algorithm can accommodate a large category of objective functions for fully distributed implementation. Numerical simulations show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches, and is robust against pilot contamination.
Oriented to the requirements of future high-frequency wireless communication systems, this paper proposes a method of combining spectrally efficient frequency-division multiplexing (SEFDM) technique with the in-band f...
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Oriented to the requirements of future high-frequency wireless communication systems, this paper proposes a method of combining spectrally efficient frequency-division multiplexing (SEFDM) technique with the in-band full-duplex (IBFD) communication system and applying it to microwave photonic transmission links to achieve ultra-high spectral efficiency. The microwave photonic link not only realizes the transmission of SEFDM signals received by the IBFD system but also realizes the analog self-interference cancellation (SIC) function. The digital SIC and SEFDM demodulation functions are seamlessly integrated following the analog SIC. Utilizing a cross-iterative algorithm, the adverse effects of the signal of interest (SOI) on the digital SIC of the received signal are mitigated, leading to a substantial improvement in both the SIC depth and demodulation performance of the SEFDM signal compared to the conventional least squares (LS) algorithm. An experiment has been conducted. The SOI and self-interference (SI) have symbol rates of 300 Msym/s and 600 Msym/s, respectively, and share a center frequency of 2 GHz and a bandwidth compression factor of 0.8. When the SI to SOI power ratio is 10.3 dB, the analog SIC depth is around 18.3 dB. The conventional LS algorithm achieves a digital SIC depth of 12.6 dB but the error vector magnitude (EVM) is 13.2%. In contrast, our proposed iterative method improves the SIC depth to 15.1 dB and reduces the EVM to 4.1%. The feasibility of the system is also verified by incorporating a 25.2-km fiber.
The interpolation-free chirp z-transform (CZT) algorithm is efficient but requires approximating the accurate 2-D spectrum's phase. However, this approximation is invalid for data from multiple-receiver synthetic ...
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The interpolation-free chirp z-transform (CZT) algorithm is efficient but requires approximating the accurate 2-D spectrum's phase. However, this approximation is invalid for data from multiple-receiver synthetic aperture sonar (MRSAS) systems with wide beamwidths, large fractional bandwidths, and wide subswaths. To address the issue above, this article derives a new range history and 2-D spectrum, and proposes a new method to limit the approximation error of the 2-D spectrum's phase. This article first represents the range history as a combination of basic functions and derives a new 2-D spectrum without any approximation. After the receiver dependence of the 2-D spectrum's phase is partially reduced, the echo data are divided into multiple subapertures in the receiver domain to ensure that the 2-D spectrum's phase difference of different receivers within each subaperture can be ignored. A frequency-domain filter is designed based on the 2-D spectrum of the reference receiver to compensate for all receivers' data in the subaperture. Therefore, only one imaging process is needed in a subaperture, rather than receiver-by-receiver imaging. The 2-D spectrum's phase is expanded up to the third range frequency and its error is limited by the subswath-subband processing rather than considering the higher order terms in Taylor expansion. The quadratic and cubic terms in each subband are linearized through subband-wise linear approximation (SLA) to facilitate the CZT algorithm. Finally, the high-resolution image of the whole swath is obtained through the subimage fusion. The superiority of the proposed range history and subswath-subband processing has been verified under wide beamwidths, large fractional bandwidths, and wide subswaths through simulation and measured data.
Distributed computing is fundamental to multiagent systems, with solving distributed linear equations as a typical example. In this article, we study distributed solvers for network linear equations over a network wit...
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Distributed computing is fundamental to multiagent systems, with solving distributed linear equations as a typical example. In this article, we study distributed solvers for network linear equations over a network with node-to-node communication messages compressed as scalar values. Our key idea lies in a dimension compression scheme that includes a dimension-compressing vector and a data unfolding step. The compression vector applies to individual node states as an inner product to generate a real-valued message for node communication. In the unfolding step, such scalar message is then plotted along the subspace generated by the compression vector for the local computations. We first present a compressed consensus flow that relies only on such scalarized communication, and show that linear convergence can be achieved with well excited signals for the compression vector. We then employ such a compressed consensus flow as a fundamental consensus subroutine to develop distributed continuous-time and discrete-time solvers for network linear equations, and prove their linear convergence properties under scalar node communications. With scalar communications, a direct benefit would be the reduced node-to-node communication channel burden for distributed computing. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the established theoretical results.
A radar system is proposed that combines frequency diverse array (FDA) and linear frequency modulation (LFM) signals to provide efficient and high-range resolution characteristics. The combined signal could be generat...
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A radar system is proposed that combines frequency diverse array (FDA) and linear frequency modulation (LFM) signals to provide efficient and high-range resolution characteristics. The combined signal could be generated by using a multichannel direct digital synthesizer. Previous studies of the FDA-LFM system based on the delay line are reviewed. Some errors in the signal expressions are corrected and the associated characteristics are revised. For the proposed FDA-LFM radar system, the signal formulations and the signalprocessing algorithm for range, angle, and Doppler are detailed. The range-time information can initially be extracted by applying the short-time Fourier transform to the time-domain data. In addition, the target angle is extracted from the obtained range-time data through the coordinate transformation. The Doppler information is then extracted by applying the fast Fourier transform to the successive range-angle data. Numerical simulations are performed and the obtained results fully validate the proposed FDA-LFM radar configuration and the systematic and efficient signalprocessing algorithm. Further Monte Carlo simulations are performed to analyze the estimation accuracy of the proposed radar system.
Sleep spindles (SSs) appear in electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings during sleep stage N2, and they are usually detected through visual inspection by an expert. Labeling SSs in large datasets is time-consuming and de...
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Sleep spindles (SSs) appear in electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings during sleep stage N2, and they are usually detected through visual inspection by an expert. Labeling SSs in large datasets is time-consuming and depends on the expert criteria. In this work, we propose an unsupervised SS detector based on dictionary learning called the Unsupervised Sleep Spindle Detector (USSD). The proposed detector learns prototype SSs of different lengths (called atoms). An unsupervised adaptive threshold method based on the distribution of the automatically detected SS lengths is developed, which allows the adaptation of the USSD algorithm to different datasets in an unsupervised way. For each detection, the USSD estimates the probability of being an SS. The USSD performances on the labeled MASS-SS2 and INTA-UCH datasets yield F1-scores of $0.72 \pm 0.02$ and $0.72 \pm 0.04$ , respectively. The USSD outperforms the A7 and LUNA detectors, which are traditional unsupervised models. Next, we fine-tune the resulting USSD model with 20% of the labeled MASS-SS2 and INTA-UCH datasets, achieving F1 scores of $0.78 \pm 0.06$ and $0.75 \pm 0.05$ , respectively. In addition, the SSs detected by USSD on the unlabeled CAP dataset are used to pre-train a supervised deep learning method, which after fine-tuning with 20% of the MODA dataset, reaches an F1-score of $0.81 \pm 0.02$ .
In this paper, a novel two-time scale task offloading/delivery framework is presented which dynamically manages radio, storage, computing, and cost aspects through multiple Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) servers distribu...
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In this paper, a novel two-time scale task offloading/delivery framework is presented which dynamically manages radio, storage, computing, and cost aspects through multiple Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) servers distributed across Road Side Units (RSUs), Base Stations (BSs), vehicles, and pedestrians. To enhance flexibility, we introduce a smart dynamic task partitioning and cooperative offloading/delivery mechanism, enabling users to offload task partitions to various MEC servers. Uncertainties stemming from users' high mobility and traffic variations may lead to unpredictable task offloading demands and Imperfect Channel State Information (I-CSI), potentially causing unsuccessful task offloading/delivery. In response, we propose a robust and cooperative two-time-scale task offloading/delivery approach, adept at handling demand uncertainty and I-CSI. The problem formulation involves a two-time scale Markov decision process, aimed at minimizing task offloading/delivery costs while maximizing task completion rates. Large time-scale slots incorporate intelligent RSU activation/deactivation, while short time-scale slots focus on task offloading/delivery. To efficiently implement this framework, we propose Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL) algorithm based on Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG);namely Low overhead Multi-Agent DDPG (LoMADDPG) where at each slot, all agents tune their Actor and Critic neural network weights with the help of Global Software-defined Networking (SDN) Controller (GSC) which acts as a global weight tuner. Simulation results illustrate that our proposed task offloading/delivery scheme can result in significant improvement in task completion rate and cost reduction.
We introduce a taxonomy for subsea optical fiber cables as used for intercontinental telecommunications systems. With reference to this new classification, we describe how the design of optical engines has both influe...
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We introduce a taxonomy for subsea optical fiber cables as used for intercontinental telecommunications systems. With reference to this new classification, we describe how the design of optical engines has both influenced, and been influenced by, the development of subsea cables. We outline the pivotal role coherent transceivers have played in the development of high-capacity subsea cables, specifically with reference to advances in digital signalprocessing and coded modulation, and we highlight the opportunities and challenges of upgrading legacy systems with state-of-the-art coherent transceivers. In this work, we also look to future cable designs and ask how the availability of fundamentally new fiber types (specifically multicore and hollow core fibers) will have an influence on subsea cables and, once again, change transceiver requirements.
Stochastic optimization algorithms are widely used to solve large-scale machine learning problems. However, their theoretical analysis necessitates access to unbiased estimates of the true gradients. To address this i...
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Stochastic optimization algorithms are widely used to solve large-scale machine learning problems. However, their theoretical analysis necessitates access to unbiased estimates of the true gradients. To address this issue, we perform a comprehensive convergence rate analysis of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with biased gradients for decentralized optimization. In non-convex settings, we show that for decentralized SGD utilizing biased gradients, the gradient in expectation is bounded asymptotically at a rate of O(1/root nT+ n/T), and the bound is linearly correlated to the biased gradient gap. In particular, we can recover the convergence results in the unbiased stochastic gradient setting when the biased gradient gap is zero. Lastly, we provide empirical support for our theoretical findings through extensive numerical experiments.
This paper introduces a computationally efficient Query-by-Committee (QBC) algorithm specifically designed for deep active learning. The algorithm leverages the concept of hypothesis perturbation (HP) to construct the...
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This paper introduces a computationally efficient Query-by-Committee (QBC) algorithm specifically designed for deep active learning. The algorithm leverages the concept of hypothesis perturbation (HP) to construct the committee. The conventional QBC algorithms often incur high computational costs due to the independent training required for each committee member. In contrast, the HP constructs the committee by strategically sampling hypotheses around a given hypothesis, and efficiently identifies data points located near the decision boundary of the current hypothesis. To quantify uncertainty, the algorithm leverages a novel metric termed disagreement in hypothesis perturbation (DHP). DHP quantifies the disagreement in predictions between the given hypothesis and its perturbed hypotheses. This metric effectively identifies data points with high uncertainty, making them ideal candidates for active learning. The effectiveness of the proposed DHP-based active learning algorithm is empirically validated through extensive experimentation. The results demonstrate that the algorithm consistently achieves superior performance compared to other established algorithms across various datasets and deep network architectures considered in the study.
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