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Kah Chan Teh

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Movable IRS-Aided ISAC Systems: Joint Beamforming and Position Optimization

Driven by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) technologies, movable IRS (MIRS) has been proposed to improve the adaptability and performance of conventional IRS, enabling flexible adjustment of the IRS reflecting element positions. This paper investigates MIRS-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The objective is to minimize the power required for satisfying the quality-of-service (QoS) of sensing and communication by jointly optimizing the MIRS element positions, IRS reflection coefficients, transmit beamforming, and receive filters. To balance the performance-cost trade-off, we proposed two MIRS schemes: element-wise control and array-wise control, where the positions of individual reflecting elements and arrays consisting of multiple elements are controllable, respectively. To address the joint beamforming and position optimization, a product Riemannian manifold optimization (PRMO) method is proposed, where the variables are updated over a constructed product Riemannian manifold space (PRMS) in parallel via penalty-based transformation and Riemannian Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (RBFGS) algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed MIRS outperforms conventional IRS in power minimization with both element-wise control and array-wise control. Specifically, with different system parameters, the minimum power is achieved by the MIRS with the element-wise control scheme, while suboptimal solution and higher computational efficiency are achieved by the MIRS with array-wise control scheme.

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Physical Layer Security Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems With In-Waveguide Attenuation

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper, we investigate the PLS performance of PA systems under a more realistic attenuation-incorporated waveguide model. Specifically, we investigate a PA system-based secure communication scenario consisting of a base station (BS), a legitimate user, and a passive eavesdropper. We derive expressions for closed-form upper and lower bounds on both the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and ergodic secrecy capacity (ESC). The results indicate that the PA system outperforms conventional fixed-antenna systems.

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CRLB Minimization for ISAC Systems with Segmented Waveguide-Enabled Pinching Antenna

Pinching-antenna (PA) has recently attracted considerable research attention in wireless systems, realized by attaching small dielectric particles along a waveguide. Building upon which, the segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) has been proposed to mitigate the inter-antenna radiation problem in uplink transmissions of conventional PA systems. In this work, SWAN-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is investigated, where a base station (BS) equipped with SWAN provides downlink communications for multiple communication users (CUs) and performs sensing for multiple targets. The dual-functional signals transmitted by the BS are radiated by the SWAN, and the echo signals reflected by the targets are captured by the SWAN and relayed to the BS for estimating the locations of the targets. We formulate a Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) minimization problem to evaluate the performance of the ISAC system, where the CRLB of the location estimation is minimized under communication rate constraints. To jointly optimize the beamforming and the PA positions of the SWAN, we develop a Riemannian manifold optimization (RMO) method, where each variable is constrained on its corresponding Riemannian manifold, and a Riemannian product manifold (RPM) is constructed as the solution space. A penalty method combined with Riemannian Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (RBFGS) algorithm is applied to obtain a feasible solution. Simulation results show that the proposed SWAN-assisted ISAC system yields superior CRLB performance for target localization compared with existing schemes including the multi-waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna-assisted ISAC systems.

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FlowCritic: Bridging Value Estimation with Flow Matching in Reinforcement Learning

Reliable value estimation serves as the cornerstone of reinforcement learning (RL) by evaluating long-term returns and guiding policy improvement, significantly influencing the convergence speed and final performance. Existing works improve the reliability of value function estimation via multi-critic ensembles and distributional RL, yet the former merely combines multi point estimation without capturing distributional information, whereas the latter relies on discretization or quantile regression, limiting the expressiveness of complex value distributions. Inspired by flow matching's success in generative modeling, we propose a generative paradigm for value estimation, named FlowCritic. Departing from conventional regression for deterministic value prediction, FlowCritic leverages flow matching to model value distributions and generate samples for value estimation.

cs.LG

Joint Beamforming and Antenna Position Optimization for IRS-Aided Multi-User Movable Antenna Systems

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) technologies have been proposed to enhance wireless communications by creating favorable channel conditions. This paper investigates the joint beamforming and antenna position optimization for MA-enabled IRS (MA-IRS)-aided multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems, where the MA-IRS is deployed to aid the communication between the MA-enabled base station (BS) and user equipment (UE). In contrast to conventional fixed position antenna (FPA)-enabled IRS (FPA-IRS), the positions of the reflecting elements of the MA-IRS can be controlled to enhances the wireless channel. To verify the system's effectiveness and optimize its performance, we formulate a sum-rate maximization problem with a minimum rate threshold constraint for the MU-MISO communication. To tackle the non-convex problem, a product Riemannian manifold optimization (PRMO) method is proposed for the joint optimization of the beamforming and MA positions. Specifically, a product Riemannian manifold space (PRMS) is constructed and the corresponding Riemannian gradient is derived for updating the variables, and the Riemannian exact penalty (REP) method and a Riemannian Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (RBFGS) algorithm is exploited to obtain a feasible solution over the PRMS. Simulation results demonstrate that compared with the conventional FPA-IRS-aided communications, the reflecting elements of the MA-IRS can move to the positions with higher channel gain, thus enhancing the system performance. Furthermore, it is shown that optimizing the positions of the reflecting elements brings higher performance gain than controlling the phase shifts of the IRS, and integrating MA with IRS leads to higher performance gains compared to integrating MA with BS.

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Automotive Radar Multi-Frame Track-Before-Detect Algorithm Considering Self-Positioning Errors

This paper presents a method for the joint detection and tracking of weak targets in automotive radars using the multi-frame track-before-detect (MF-TBD) procedure. Generally, target tracking in automotive radars is challenging due to radar field of view (FOV) misalignment, nonlinear coordinate conversion, and self-positioning errors of the ego-vehicle, which are caused by platform motion. These issues significantly hinder the implementation of MF-TBD in automotive radars. To address these challenges, a new MF-TBD detection architecture is first proposed. It can adaptively adjust the detection threshold value based on the existence of moving targets within the radar FOV. Since the implementation of MF-TBD necessitates the inclusion of position, velocity, and yaw angle information of the ego-vehicle, each with varying degrees of measurement error, we further propose a multi-frame energy integration strategy for moving-platform radar and accurately derive the target energy integration path functions. The self-positioning errors of the ego-vehicle, which are usually not considered in some previous target tracking approaches, are well addressed. Numerical simulations and experimental results with real radar data demonstrate large detection and tracking gains over standard automotive radar processing in weak target environments.

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Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) With Multiple Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

In this paper, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks assisted by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) with discrete phase shifts are investigated, in which each user device (UD) is served by an IRS to improve the quality of the received signal. Two scenarios are considered according to whether there is a direct link between the base station (BS) and each UD, and the outage performance is analyzed for each of them. Specifically, the asymptotic expressions for the upper and lower bounds of the outage probability in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime are derived. Following that, the diversity order is obtained. It is shown that the use of discrete phase shifts does not degrade diversity order. More importantly, simulation results reveal that a 3-bit resolution for discrete phase shifts is sufficient to achieve near-optimal outage performance. Simulation results also imply the superiority of IRSs over full-duplex decode-and-forward relays.

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Downlink and Uplink Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Networks: NOMA and OMA

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned to provide reconfigurable wireless environments for future communication networks. In this paper, both downlink and uplink IRS-aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal multiple access (OMA) networks are studied, in which an IRS is deployed to enhance the coverage by assisting a cell-edge user device (UD) to communicate with the base station (BS). To characterize system performance, new channel statistics of the BS-IRS-UD link with Nakagami-$m$ fading are investigated. For each scenario, the closed-form expressions for the outage probability and ergodic rate are derived. To gain further insight, the diversity order and high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) slope for each scenario are obtained according to asymptotic approximations in the high-SNR regime. It is demonstrated that the diversity order is affected by the number of IRS reflecting elements and Nakagami fading parameters, but the high-SNR slope is not related to these parameters. Simulation results validate our analysis and reveal the superiority of the IRS over the full-duplex decode-and-forward relay.

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Performance Analysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes over 2D Interference Channels via Density Evolution

The theoretical analysis of detection and decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes transmitted over channels with two-dimensional (2D) interference and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is provided in this paper. The detection and decoding system adopts the joint iterative detection and decoding scheme (JIDDS) in which the log-domain sum-product algorithm is adopted to decode the LDPC codes. The graph representations of the JIDDS are explained. Using the graph representations, we prove that the message-flow neighborhood of the detection and decoding system will be tree-like for a sufficiently long code length. We further confirm that the performance of the JIDDS will concentrate around the performance in which message-flow neighborhood is tree-like. Based on the tree-like message-flow neighborhood, we employ a modified density evolution algorithm to track the message densities during the iterations. A threshold is calculated using the density evolution algorithm which can be considered as the theoretical performance limit of the system. Simulation results demonstrate that the modified density evolution is effective in analyzing the performance of 2D interference systems.

cs.IT