Open-Source Based and ETSI Compliant Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mini-Cars

This paper proposes a cost-effective, open-source platform utilizing 1:10 scaled mini-cars equipped with ROS2 and an ETSI-compliant OScar stack to bridge the gap between simulation and field testing for cooperative, connected, and automated vehicle research, demonstrated through a validated intersection collision warning application.

Lorenzo Farina, Federico Gavioli, Salvatore Iandolo, Francesco Moretti, Giuseppe Perrone, Matteo Piccoli, Francesco Raviglione, Marco Rapelli, Antonio Solida, Paolo Burgio, Carlo Augusto Grazia, Alessandro BazziMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

A Dual-AoI-based Approach for Optimal Transmission Scheduling in Wireless Monitoring Systems with Random Data Arrivals

This paper proposes a dual-AoI-based Markov decision process framework to optimize transmission scheduling in wireless monitoring systems with random data arrivals and unreliable channels, deriving a low-complexity threshold policy that outperforms existing approaches by addressing the inefficiency of conventional methods that ignore asynchronous AoI evolution.

Yuchong Zhang, Yi Cao, Xianghui CaoMon, 09 Ma💻 cs

V2N-Based Algorithm and Communication Protocol for Autonomous Non-Stop Intersections

This paper presents "Moveover," a novel V2N-based algorithm and communication protocol that enables autonomous vehicles to cross intersections without stopping by delegating trajectory optimization to individual vehicles while using a local controller for collision prevention, demonstrating significant improvements in travel time and emissions under various network conditions and intersection layouts.

Lorenzo Farina, Lorenzo Mario Amorosa, Marco Rapelli + 3 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Analysis of Proactive Uncoordinated Techniques to Mitigate Interference in FMCW Automotive Radars

This study evaluates uncoordinated proactive interference mitigation techniques for FMCW automotive radars in dense traffic scenarios, concluding that chirp-by-chirp frequency hopping combined with sufficient bandwidth is the most effective method for ensuring system reliability, whereas compass-based directional approaches offer limited value relative to their complexity.

Alessandro Bazzi, Francesco Miccoli, Fabrizio Cuccoli + 2 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Selfish Cooperation Towards Low-Altitude Economy: Integrated Multi-Service Deployment with Resilient Federated Reinforcement Learning

This paper addresses the competitive multi-service UAV deployment in the low-altitude economy by proposing an authenticity-guaranteed auction mechanism and a resilient federated reinforcement learning solution that optimizes resource allocation while ensuring robustness against transmission errors and malicious behavior among self-interested service providers.

Yuxuan Yang, Bin Lyu, Abbas Jamalipour2026-03-06💻 cs

Body-scale NFC for wearables: human-centric body-scale NFC networking for ultra-low-power wearable devices (Demo of UTokyo Kawahara Lab 2025)

This paper presents a human-centric body-scale NFC networking system for ultra-low-power wearables that utilizes Meander NFC to create stable, surface-confined communication on clothing and picoRing NFC to bridge distance gaps between distributed nodes, thereby enabling robust surface-to-multipoint interactions.

Hideaki Yamamoto, Yifan Li, Wakako Yukita + 4 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Joint Visible Light and RF Backscatter Communications for Ambient IoT Network: Fundamentals, Applications, and Opportunities

This paper proposes and validates a joint Visible Light Communication and Ambient Backscatter architecture for batteryless Ambient IoT networks, detailing its fundamental concepts, diverse applications, and experimental proof-of-concept demonstrations while outlining future research directions and deployment challenges.

Boxuan Xie, Yifan Zhang, Kalle Koskinen + 7 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Transformer-Based Multipath Congestion Control: A Decoupled Approach for Wireless Uplinks

This paper proposes TCCO, a Transformer-based framework that decouples congestion control from the kernel to leverage external computational resources and self-attention mechanisms for noise filtering and coordinated multipath transmission, demonstrating superior adaptability and performance on wireless uplinks compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

Zongyuan Zhang, Tianyang Duan, Liang Wang + 9 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Towards Green Connectivity: An AI-Driven Mesh Architecture for Sustainable and Scalable Wireless Networks

This paper proposes an AI-driven mesh architecture that integrates proximity-based low-power nodes, spatial frequency reuse, and LSTM-based traffic prediction to achieve up to 84 times better energy efficiency and 74 percent lower deployment costs, effectively replacing inefficient, diesel-dependent macro-cell networks with a sustainable, solar-powered solution for both rural and ultra-dense urban environments.

Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Jazib, Muhammad Saad + 1 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Arterial Network Traffic State Prediction with Connected Vehicle Data: An Abnormality-Aware Spatiotemporal Network

This paper proposes a novel framework for predicting arterial traffic states using real-world connected vehicle data, featuring a two-stage traffic state extraction method and an Abnormality-aware Spatiotemporal Graph Convolution Network (AASTGCN) that effectively handles both normal and abnormal traffic conditions by separately modeling them with a dual-expert architecture and a gated-fusion mechanism.

Lei Han, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Yang-Jun Joo2026-03-06💻 cs