Rate-Distortion Bounds for Heterogeneous Random Fields on Finite Lattices

This paper establishes a finite-blocklength rate-distortion framework for heterogeneous random fields on finite lattices that explicitly incorporates tile-based processing constraints, providing non-asymptotic bounds and a second-order expansion to quantify the effects of spatial correlation, heterogeneity, and tile size on compression performance.

Sujata Sinha, Vishwas Rao, Robert Underwood, David Lenz, Sheng Di, Franck Cappello, Lingjia LiuWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Transformed p\ell_p Minimization Model and Sparse Signal Recovery

This paper introduces a flexible transformed p\ell_p minimization model with two adjustable parameters to enhance sparse signal recovery, establishing exact and stable recovery guarantees via the restricted isometry property, proposing an efficient IRLSTLp algorithm with convergence proofs, and demonstrating its superior performance and theoretical bounds through numerical experiments.

Ziwei Li, Wengu Chen, Huanmin Ge, Dachun YangWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Scientific Rigor and Human Warmth: Remembering Vladimir Sidorenko (1949-2025)

This paper summarizes a memorial session held at the FFCS conference in Braunschweig honoring Dr. Vladimir Sidorenko (1949–2025), celebrating his profound scientific contributions to coding theory, cryptography, and quantum error correction alongside his cherished personal qualities of mentorship, humor, and generosity.

Christian Deppe, Haider Al Kim, Jessica Bariffi, Hannes Bartz, Minglai Cai, Pau Colomer, Gohar KyureghyanWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Tensor Train Decomposition-based Channel Estimation for MIMO-AFDM Systems with Fractional Delay and Doppler

This paper proposes a computationally efficient channel estimation algorithm for MIMO-AFDM systems that utilizes a Vandermonde-structured tensor train decomposition to accurately handle fractional delay and Doppler effects, while also introducing a global Ziv-Zakai bound that outperforms the Cramér-Rao bound in characterizing low-SNR performance.

Ruizhe Wang, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Haisu Wu, Jiangzhou WangWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Randomized Distributed Function Computation (RDFC): Ultra-Efficient Semantic Communication Applications to Privacy

This paper introduces the Randomized Distributed Function Computation (RDFC) framework, a semantic communication approach that achieves local differential privacy and significantly reduces transmission rates compared to lossless methods, even in scenarios without shared randomness, by leveraging strong coordination metrics and randomized function generation.

Onur GünlüWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Artificial Noise Versus Artificial Noise Elimination: Redefining Scaling Laws of Physical Layer Security

This paper establishes scaling laws for secrecy rates in MIMO wiretap channels to analyze the interplay between transmit, receive, and eavesdropper antennas, revealing that secure communication may fail when the eavesdropper has more than twice the transmitter's antennas and identifying conditions under which artificial noise remains effective against artificial noise elimination countermeasures.

Hong Niu, Tuo Wu, Xia Lei, Wanbin Tang, Mérouane Debbah, H. Vincent Poor, Chau YuenWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Do Ambient Backscatter Communication Receivers Require Low-Noise Amplifiers?

This paper proposes a new symbol detection framework for ambient backscatter communication receivers equipped with low-noise amplifiers, demonstrating through bit error rate analysis and deflection coefficient evaluation that such amplifiers enhance detection performance at low-to-moderate transmission powers and deriving a near-optimal threshold estimation method using pilot symbols.

Xinyi Wang, Yuxin Li, Yinghui Ye, Gongpu Wang, Guangyue LuWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Unlocking High-Fidelity Analog Joint Source-Channel Coding on Standard Digital Transceivers

This paper introduces D2AJSCC, a novel framework that enables the deployment of high-fidelity analog joint source-channel coding on standard digital transceivers by utilizing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing as a waveform synthesizer and a differentiable neural surrogate to overcome hardware mismatches and non-differentiable operations, thereby achieving graceful degradation without requiring hardware modifications.

Shumin Yao, Hao Chen, Yaping Sun, Nan Ma, Xiaodong Xu, Qinglin Zhao, Shuguang CuiWed, 11 Ma🔢 math

Distributed Multichannel Wiener Filtering for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

This paper proposes the distributed multichannel Wiener filter (dMWF), a non-iterative algorithm for wireless acoustic sensor networks that achieves optimal, centralized-level speech estimation performance with reduced communication bandwidth, even when nodes observe different sets of sources, thereby outperforming existing iterative solutions like DANSE.

Paul Didier, Toon van Waterschoot, Simon Doclo, Jörg Bitzer, Pourya Behmandpoor, Henri Gode, Marc MoonenWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess