When Does Multipath Improve Imaging Resolution?
In this paper, we characterize resolution limits for imaging in electromagnetic spectrum where multipath is commonly encountered, e.g., spectrum often used for wireless communication. We analyze a passive system configuration with an aperture of fixed spatial extent sampling fields backscattered from an imaging scene consisting of both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) paths. We characterize the resolution limits using the degrees of freedom (DoF) metric.
Version Age of Information in Clustered Gossip Networks
We consider a network consisting of a single source and $n$ receiver nodes that are grouped into equal-sized clusters. Each cluster corresponds to a distinct community such that nodes that belong to different communities cannot exchange information. We use dedicated cluster heads in each cluster to facilitate communication between the source and the nodes within that cluster. Inside clusters, nodes are connected to each other according to a given network topology.
Causal Adversarial Channels With Feedback Snooping
With the advent of 5G and technologies such as cloud computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), etc, future communication networks will consist of a large number of heterogeneous devices connected together. A critical aspect will be ensuring that communication is not only fast and reliable, but also resilient to malicious attack. As networks increasingly adopt zero-trust principles in their security frameworks, it is important to consider such attacks from a zero-trust perspective.
Near-Optimal Coding for Many-User Multiple Access Channels
This paper considers the Gaussian multiple-access channel in the asymptotic regime where the number of users grows linearly with the code length. We propose efficient coding schemes based on random linear models with approximate message passing (AMP) decoding and derive the asymptotic error rate achieved for a given user density, user payload (in bits), and user energy. The tradeoff between energy-per-bit and achievable user density (for a fixed user payload and target error rate) is studied.
Age of Information in Multi-source Updating Systems Powered by Energy Harvesting
This paper considers a multi-source updating system in which a transmitter node powered by energy harvesting (EH) sends status updates about multiple sources of information to a destination, where the freshness of status updates is measured in terms of Age of Information (AoI). The status updates of each source and harvested energy packets are assumed to arrive at the transmitter according to independent Poisson processes, and the service time of each status update is assumed to be exponentially distributed.
Joint Communication and Binary State Detection
We study a basic joint communication and sensing setup from an information theoretic perspective. A transmitter sends an encoded message through a pair of noisy channels connected to a receiver and a sensor. The receiver is interested in decoding the message from its noisy observation. The sensor has access to the message as side information, and instead is interested in estimating an unknown yet fixed binary state of its channel.
Optimality of Energy-Efficient Scheduling and Relaying for Half-Duplex Relay Networks
This paper considers a single-source single-destination half-duplex $n$ -relay network with arbitrary topology, where the source communicates with the destination through a direct link and with the help of $n$ half-duplex relays. The focus is on the linear deterministic approximation of the Gaussian noise network model.
On Distributed Learning With Constant Communication Bits
In this paper, we study a distributed learning problem constrained by constant communication bits. Specifically, we consider the distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) problem where two distributed nodes are constrained to transmit a constant number of bits to a central decoder. In such settings, we show that in order to achieve the optimal error exponents, it suffices to consider the empirical distributions of observed data sequences and encode them to the transmission bits.
The SIMO Block Rayleigh Fading Channel Capacity Scaling With Number of Antennas, Bandwidth, and Coherence Length
This paper studies the capacity scaling of non-coherent Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO) independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh block fading channels versus bandwidth ( $B$ ), number of receive antennas ( $N$ ) and coherence block length ( $L$ ). In non-coherent channels (without Channel State Information–CSI) capacity scales as $\Theta (\min (B,\sqrt {NL},N))$ . This is achievable using Pilot-Assisted signaling. Energy Modulation signaling rate scales as $\Theta (\min (B,\sqrt {N}))$ .