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Mingjie Zhu

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Tri-Band Channel Measurement-Enabled Multi-Layer Digital Twin for Terahertz Wireless Data Centers

The rapid growth of AI computing has driven increasing demands for flexible and high-capacity data-center interconnections. Owing to its ultra-wide bandwidth and high spatial reuse capability, terahertz (THz) communication has emerged as a promising solution for future wireless data centers, while digital twins (DTs) enable efficient wireless planning and real-time optimization. In this work, a measurement-driven multi-layer DT framework is proposed for THz wireless data centers, where the physical, channel, evaluation, and manipulation layers are progressively constructed from bottom to top. First, extensive channel measurements are conducted at 140, 220, and 300 GHz to characterize frequency-dependent propagation behaviors. Based on the tri-band measurements, a measurement-calibrated physical twin is established by jointly optimizing the geometry, material, antenna, and hybrid propagation models. On top of the physical twin, a line-of-sight (LoS)-aware implicit neural field is developed to construct an AI channel twin for efficient channel reconstruction. The proposed AI twin learns location-dependent channel statistics from the calibrated twin, enabling real-time prediction of received power and LoS probability. Building upon the reconstructed channel field, a system-level evaluation layer is derived to analyze coverage and interference for both AP-to-rack and rack-to-rack communications. Experimental results show that the proposed AI twin achieves lower power reconstruction error than existing neural-field baselines while maintaining real-time inference capability. Moreover, the ceiling-mounted AP deployment achieves over 90% coverage under a 10 dB signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) threshold, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed DT framework for THz wireless data-center planning and optimization.

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A Measurement-Calibrated AI-Assisted Digital Twin for Terahertz Wireless Data Centers

Terahertz (THz) wireless communication has emerged as a promising solution for future data center interconnects; however, accurate channel characterization and system-level performance evaluation in complex indoor environments remain challenging. In this work, a measurement-calibrated AI-assisted digital twin (DT) framework is developed for THz wireless data centers by tightly integrating channel measurements, ray-tracing (RT), and implicit neural field (INF) modeling. Specifically, channel measurements are first conducted using a vector network analyzer at 300 GHz under both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) scenarios. RT simulations performed on the Sionna platform capture the dominant multipath structures and show good consistency with measured results. Building upon measurement and RT data, an RT-conditioned INF is developed to construct a continuous radio-frequency (RF) field representation, enabling accurate prediction in RT-missing NLoS regions. The comprehensive RF map generated by DT can provide system-level analysis and decisions for wireless data centers.

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When Wires Can't Keep Up: Reconfigurable AI Data Centers Empowered by Terahertz Wireless Communications

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in modern data centers demands a radical transformation of interconnect architectures. Traditional copper and optical wiring face fundamental challenges in latency, power consumption, and rigidity, constraining the scalability of distributed AI clusters. This article introduces a vision for Terahertz (THz) Wireless Data Center (THz-WDC) that combines ultra-broadband capacity, one-hop low-latency communication, and energy efficiency in the short-to-medium range (1-100m). Performance and technical requirements are first articulated, including up to 1 Tbps per link, aggregate throughput up to 10 Tbps via spatial multiplexing, sub-50 ns single-hop latency, and sub-10 pJ/bit energy efficiency over 20m. To achieve these ambitious goals, key enabling technologies are explored, including digital-twin-based orchestration, low-complexity beam manipulation technologies, all-silicon THz transceivers, and low-complexity analog baseband architectures. Moreover, as future data centers shift toward quantum and chiplet-based modular architectures, THz wireless links provide a flexible mechanism for interconnecting, testing, and reconfiguring these modules. Finally, numerical analysis is presented on the latency and power regimes of THz versus optical and copper interconnects, identifying the specific distance and throughput domains where THz links can surpass conventional wired solutions. The article concludes with a roadmap toward wireless-defined, reconfigurable, and sustainable AI data centers.

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Digital Twin Empowered In-Vehicular Channel Modeling and Wireless Planning in the Terahertz Band

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology has emerged as a key enabler of intelligent transportation systems, while the Terahertz (THz) band offers abundant spectrum resources to support ultra-high-speed and low-latency V2X communications. This paper investigates the in-vehicle wireless channel in the 300~GHz band. First, channel measurement based on vector-network-analyzer (VNA) is conducted under typical V2X scenarios, including with/without human, and window-on/off cases. Then, a digital twin (DT) of the vehicle is constructed from high-resolution point cloud data and a measurement-based material property database. The DT is integrated into an open-source ray-tracing (RT) simulator, Sionna, to model multipath propagation. The DT-empowered simulation results are analyzed and validated with the measurement data, showing strong agreement and validating the feasibility. Finally, a hybrid ray-tracing-statistic channel model is established, combining the RT results and measurement data. Leveraging the validated model, further wireless planning is carried out, including signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) analysis, coverage probability evaluation, and optimal transmitter (Tx) placement. These findings provide valuable insights for the design and deployment of future THz in-vehicle communication systems.

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Phase-controlled bound states in giant atom waveguide QED setup

We find the phase-controlled bound state out of the continuum~(BOC) and bound state in the continuum~(BIC) in an artificial giant atom dressed one-dimensional photonic waveguide where the giant atom couples to the waveguide via two distant sites. We obtain the existence condition of the BOC as well as the frequency and the photonic distribution in the BIC. More interestingly, we predict the quantum beats in the atomic and photonic dynamical evolution, which is induced by the oscillation between the BIC and the BOCs. These findings provide an approach to manipulate the waveguide system via the bound states.

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Boosting long-term forecasting performance for continuous-time dynamic graph networks via data augmentation

This study focuses on long-term forecasting (LTF) on continuous-time dynamic graph networks (CTDGNs), which is important for real-world modeling. Existing CTDGNs are effective for modeling temporal graph data due to their ability to capture complex temporal dependencies but perform poorly on LTF due to the substantial requirement for historical data, which is not practical in most cases. To relieve this problem, a most intuitive way is data augmentation. In this study, we propose \textbf{\underline{U}ncertainty \underline{M}asked \underline{M}ix\underline{U}p (UmmU)}: a plug-and-play module that conducts uncertainty estimation to introduce uncertainty into the embedding of intermediate layer of CTDGNs, and perform masked mixup to further enhance the uncertainty of the embedding to make it generalize to more situations. UmmU can be easily inserted into arbitrary CTDGNs without increasing the number of parameters. We conduct comprehensive experiments on three real-world dynamic graph datasets, the results demonstrate that UmmU can effectively improve the long-term forecasting performance for CTDGNs.

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Towards Secure and Practical Machine Learning via Secret Sharing and Random Permutation

With the increasing demands for privacy protection, privacy-preserving machine learning has been drawing much attention in both academia and industry. However, most existing methods have their limitations in practical applications. On the one hand, although most cryptographic methods are provable secure, they bring heavy computation and communication. On the other hand, the security of many relatively efficient private methods (e.g., federated learning and split learning) is being questioned, since they are non-provable secure. Inspired by previous work on privacy-preserving machine learning, we build a privacy-preserving machine learning framework by combining random permutation and arithmetic secret sharing via our compute-after-permutation technique. Since our method reduces the cost for element-wise function computation, it is more efficient than existing cryptographic methods. Moreover, by adopting distance correlation as a metric for privacy leakage, we demonstrate that our method is more secure than previous non-provable secure methods. Overall, our proposal achieves a good balance between security and efficiency. Experimental results show that our method not only is up to 6x faster and reduces up to 85% network traffic compared with state-of-the-art cryptographic methods, but also leaks less privacy during the training process compared with non-provable secure methods.

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