Level Crossing Rate Analysis for Optimal Single-user RIS Systems

This paper derives a novel exact analytical expression for the level crossing rate (LCR) of optimal single-user RIS-aided systems under blocked direct links and proposes a numerically stable approximation for direct-only channels, revealing that RIS systems effectively mitigate temporal channel variations, thereby easing the burden of channel state information acquisition.

Amy S. Inwood, Peter J. Smith, Philippa A. Martin, Graeme K. WoodwardThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Phase Selection and Analysis for Multi-frequency Multi-user RIS Systems Employing Subsurfaces

This paper proposes a low-complexity RIS design where each user is served by a dedicated subsurface on a unique frequency band, deriving closed-form performance metrics that demonstrate optimal Line-of-Sight operation and remarkable robustness to non-Line-of-Sight conditions while significantly reducing channel estimation and processing requirements.

Amy S. Inwood, Peter J. Smith, Philippa A. Martin, Graeme K. WoodwardThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

The potential and viability of V2G for California BEV drivers

By analyzing real-world Californian BEV usage data to identify distinct driver profiles, this study demonstrates that Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) adoption is most viable for "Daily Chargers" and that its impact on battery lifetime varies significantly based on calendar aging sensitivity and charging habits, ranging from increased capacity loss to potential retention improvements.

Clement Wong, Amalie Trewartha, Steven B. Torrisi, Alexandre L. S. FilipowiczThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Distributed Safety Critical Control among Uncontrollable Agents using Reconstructed Control Barrier Functions

This paper proposes a distributed safety-critical control framework for multi-agent systems with uncontrollable agents, utilizing a novel reconstructed Control Barrier Function based on distributed adaptive state estimates and prescribed performance parameters to decouple safety constraints and rigorously guarantee system safety.

Yuzhang Peng, Wei Wang, Jiaqi Yan, Mengze YuThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Semantic Satellite Communications for Synchronized Audiovisual Reconstruction

This paper proposes an adaptive multimodal semantic transmission system for satellite communications that utilizes a dual-stream generative architecture and a large language model-based decision module to dynamically switch between audio and video streams, thereby achieving high-fidelity synchronized audiovisual reconstruction while significantly reducing bandwidth consumption under challenging channel conditions.

Fangyu Liu, Peiwen Jiang, Wenjin Wang, Chao-Kai Wen, Xiao Li, Shi JinThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Scaling and Trade-offs in Multi-agent Autonomous Systems

This paper demonstrates that applying dimensional analysis and data scaling to large-scale agent-based simulations of autonomous drone swarms reveals predictable, counterintuitive scaling laws and sharp success-failure boundaries, enabling rapid, budget-aware optimization of agent counts, platform parameters, and path planning strategies across diverse mission scenarios.

Abram H. Clark, Liraz Mudrik, Colton Kawamura, Nathan C. Redder, João P. Hespanha, Isaac KaminerThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

MOS-Bias: From Hidden Gender Bias to Gender-Aware Speech Quality Assessment

This paper reveals a systematic gender bias in speech quality assessment where male listeners consistently rate audio higher than female listeners, particularly for low-quality speech, and proposes a gender-aware model that learns distinct scoring patterns to improve prediction accuracy and equity.

Wenze Ren, Yi-Cheng Lin, Wen-Chin Huang, Erica Cooper, Ryandhimas E. Zezario, Hsin-Min Wang, Hung-yi Lee, Yu TsaoThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Distributed State Estimation of Discrete-Time LTI Systems via Jordan Canonical Representation

This paper proposes a distributed state estimation scheme for discrete-time LTI systems that utilizes the Jordan canonical form to combine local Luenberger observers with consensus-based strategies, thereby establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic convergence while offering greater flexibility and less restrictive solvability conditions than previous work.

Giulio Fattore, Maria Elena Valcher, Rui Gao, Guang-Hong YangThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Propagation and Rate-Aware Cell Switching Optimization in HAPS-Assisted Wireless Networks

This paper proposes a rate-aware cell switching optimization framework for HAPS-assisted 6G networks that integrates realistic propagation losses and multi-objective formulation to significantly reduce data rate degradation while maintaining energy efficiency and user connectivity, validated through both system-level simulations and Sionna-OAI emulation.

Mehmet Eren Uluçınar, Özgün Ersoy, Berk Ciloglu, Metin Ozturk, Ali GorcinThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Flexible Multi-Target Angular Emulation for Over-the-Air Testing of Large-Scale ISAC Base Stations: Principle and Experimental Verification

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a flexible multi-target over-the-air emulation framework for large-scale ISAC base stations that utilizes an amplitude and phase modulation network to simulate diverse sensing targets without costly hardware, overcoming scalability challenges through optimized probe array configurations based on strictly diagonally dominant matrices.

Chunhui Li, Hao Sun, Wei FanThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Geo-ATBench: A Benchmark for Geospatial Audio Tagging with Geospatial Semantic Context

This paper introduces Geo-ATBench, a new benchmark and the Geo-AT task that leverage geospatial semantic context to resolve acoustic ambiguities in multi-label audio tagging, demonstrating through the GeoFusion-AT framework that incorporating location-based priors significantly improves recognition performance and aligns with human judgment.

Yuanbo Hou, Yanru Wu, Qiaoqiao Ren, Shengchen Li, Stephen Roberts, Dick BotteldoorenThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Suppressing Acoustomigration and Temperature Rise for High-power Robust Acoustics

This paper introduces a layered acoustic wave (LAW) platform featuring a quasi-infinite multifunctional top layer that simultaneously suppresses acoustomigration and temperature rise, achieving a 70% reduction in heating and a record-breaking power density threshold of 45.61 dBm/mm² for high-frequency (>2 GHz) acoustic transducers.

Fangsheng Qian, Shuhan Chen, Wei Wei, Jiashuai Xu, Kai Yang, Junyan Zheng, Zijun Ren, Xingyu Liu, Yansong YangThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

A Harmony Composition-Inspired Tensor Modalization Method for Near-Field IRS Channel Estimation

This paper proposes a novel near-field channel estimation framework for extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surfaces that leverages tensor modalization and harmonic analysis-inspired decoupling to create a compact distance-dependent codebook, achieving significantly higher accuracy and lower complexity than existing polar-domain methods.

Wenzhou Cao, Yashuai Cao, Tiejun Lv, Jie ZengThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

3D Spectrum Awareness for Radio Dynamic Zones Using Kriging and Matrix Completion

This paper proposes a 3D spectrum awareness framework for Radio Dynamic Zones that leverages matrix completion to outperform ordinary Kriging in dense measurement scenarios while demonstrating the superiority of simple and trans-Gaussian Kriging in sparse conditions, alongside the benefits of integrating multi-altitude data for improved prediction accuracy.

Mushfiqur Rahman, Sung Joon Maeng, Ismail Guvenc, Chau-Wai WongThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess