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Multi-Modal Conditioned High-Resolution Transformer for Urban Electromagnetic Field Map Prediction Download PDF

Predicting electromagnetic field (EMF) strength in urban environments is essential for cellular network planning but computationally expensive with physics-based simulators. We propose a multi-conditioned dense prediction framework that generates 500 500 EMF maps from building layout images and antenna configurations. Our architecture uses a High-Resolution Transformer (HRFormer) backbone with two complementary conditioning mechanisms: Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM) injects scalar antenna parameters into all backbone stages, while cross-attention fuses 1-D radiation pattern tokens with spatial features at the deepest stage. We further introduce transmitter-relative spatial channels encoding distance, proximity, and bearing from the antenna, enabling coordinate-consistent test-time augmentation (TTA) that reduces test MAE by 6.3%. To address the prediction difficulty imbalance across EMF maps, we design a composite loss combining masked L1, multi-scale structural similarity (MS-SSIM), and a focal L1 term that upweights high-signal pixels, outperforming individual loss components in all metrics. Our best model achieves a test MAE of 0.0461, a 25.2% improvement over a plain UNet baseline and 31.8% over an HRFormer-only baseline.Do-

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Electromagnetic Field Exposure Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Wireless Power Transfer Systems: A Review and Future Perspectives

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies are increasingly being applied in fields ranging from consumer electronics and electric vehicles to space-based energy systems and medical implants. While WPT offers contactless power delivery, it introduces electromagnetic field (EMF) emissions, necessitating careful assessment to address safety and public health concerns. Exposure guidelines developed by ICNIRP and IEEE define frequency-dependent limits based on internal quantities, such as electric field strength and specific absorption rate, intended to prevent tissue nerve stimulation < 100 kHz and heating > 100 kHz, respectively. Complementing these guidelines, assessment standards including the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)/IEEE 63184 and IEC Technical Report 63377, provide practical procedures for evaluating the EMF exposure in WPT systems. This review offers a comparative overview of major WPT modalities, with a focus on recent developments in computational dosimetry and standardized assessment techniques for the complex, non-uniform fields typical of WPT environments. It also discusses electromagnetic interference with medical devices and exposure scenarios involving partial body proximity and various postures. A notable observation across modalities is the considerable variability, often spanning an order of magnitude, in the allowable transfer power, depending on the field distribution and assessment approach. Remaining challenges include the lack of harmonized guidance for intermediate frequencies and localized exposure, underscoring the importance of further coordination in international standardization efforts. Addressing these issues is essential for the safe and widespread deployment of WPT technologies.

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Roadmap towards Personalized Approaches and Safety Considerations in Non-Ionizing Radiation: From Dosimetry to Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications

This roadmap provides a comprehensive and forward-looking perspective on the individualized application and safety of non-ionizing radiation (NIR) dosimetry in diagnostic and therapeutic medicine. Covering a wide range of frequencies, i.e., from low-frequency to terahertz, this document provides an overview of the current state of the art and anticipates future research needs in selected key topics of NIR-based medical applications. It also emphasizes the importance of personalized dosimetry, rigorous safety evaluation, and interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure safe and effective integration of NIR technologies in modern therapy and diagnosis.

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Implementation of Noise-Shaped Signaling System through Software-Defined Radio

As developments of electromagnetic weapons, Electronic Warfare (EW) has been rising as the future form of war. Especially in wireless communications, the high security defense systems, such as Low Probability of Detection (LPD), Low Probability of Interception (LPI), or Low Prob-ability of Exploitation (LPE) communication algorithms, are studied to prevent the military force loss. One of the LPD, LPI, and LPE communication algorithm, physical-layer security, has been discussed and studied. We propose a noise signaling system, a type of physical-layer secu-rity, which modifies conventionally modulated I/Q data into a noise-like shape. For presenting the possibility of realistic implementation, we use Software-Defined Radio (SDR). Since there are certain limitations of hardware, we present the limitations, requirements, and preferences of practical implementation of noise signaling system, and the proposed system is ring-shaped signaling. We present the ring-shaped signaling system algorithm, SDR implementation meth-odology, and performance evaluations of the system by the metrics of Bit Error Rate (BER) and Probability of Modulation Identification (PMI), which we obtain by Convolutional Neural Net-work (CNN) algorithm. We conclude that the ring-shaped signaling system can perform a high LPI/LPE communication function due to the eavesdropper cannot obtain the correct used modu-lation scheme information, and the performance can vary by the configurations of the I/Q data modifying factors.

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DSRC-Enabled Train Safety Communication System at Unmanned Crossings

Although wireless technology is available for safety-critical applications, few applications have been used to improve train crossing safety. To prevent potential collisions between trains and vehicles, we present a Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC)-enabled train safety communication system targeting to implement at unmanned crossings. Since our application's purpose is preventing collisions between trains and vehicles, we present a method to calculate the minimum required warning time for head-to-head collision at the train crossing. Furthermore, we define the best- and worst-case scenarios and provide practical measurements at six operating crossings in the U.S. with numerous system configurations such as modulation scheme, transmission power, antenna type, train speed, and vehicle braking distances. From our measurements, we find that the warning application coverage range is independent of the train speed, that the omnidirectional antenna with high transmission power is the best configuration for our system, and that the latency values are mostly less than 5 ms. We use the radio communication coverage to evaluate the time to avoid collision and introduce the safeness level metric. From the measured data, we observe that the DSRC-enabled train safety communication system is feasible for up to 35 mph train speeds which is providing more than 25-30 s time to avoid the collision for 25-65 mph vehicle speeds. Higher train speeds are expected to be safe, but more measurements beyond the 200 m mark with respect to a crossing considered here are needed for a definite conclusion.

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Survey of Spectrum Regulation for Intelligent Transportation Systems

As 5G communication technology develops, vehicular communications that require high reliability, low latency, and massive connectivity are drawing increasing interest from those in academia and industry. Due to these developing technologies, vehicular communication is not limited to vehicle components in the forms of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) networks, but has also been extended to connect with others, such as pedestrians and cellular users. Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) is the conventional vehicular communication standard for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). More recently, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project introduced Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), a competitor to DSRC. Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to consider deploying Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII)devices in the ITS band with two interference mitigation approaches: Detect-and-Vacate (DAV)and Re-channelization (Re-CH). With multiple standard options and interference mitigation approaches, numerous regulatory taxonomies can be identified and notification of relevant technical challenges issued. However, these challenges are much broader than the current and future regulatory taxonomies pursued by the different countries involved. Because their plans differ, the technical and regulatory challenges vary. This paper presents a literature survey about the technical challenges, the current and future ITS band usage plans, and the major research testbeds for the U.S., Europe, China, Korea, and Japan. This survey shows that the most likely deployment taxonomies are (1) DSRC, C-V2X, and Wi-Fi with Re-CH; (2) DSRC and C-V2X with interoperation, and (3) C-V2X only. The most difficult technical challenge is the interoperability between the Wi-Fi-like DSRC and 4G LTE-like C-V2X.

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