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  • Article
  • Open Access
3,071 Views
18 Pages

30 July 2020

Spatial modulation (SM) is a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique that achieves a MIMO capacity by conveying information through antenna indices, while keeping the transmitter as simple as that of a single-input system. Quadrature SM (QSM)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
548 Views
26 Pages

11 January 2026

In the context of global climate change, solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), a robust proxy for gross primary productivity, is modulated by the coupled effects of soil moisture (SM) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD). However, fine-scale spat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,283 Views
14 Pages

Integrated Spatial Modulation and STBC-VBLAST Design toward Efficient MIMO Transmission

  • Kaiyuan Huang,
  • Yue Xiao,
  • Lizhe Liu,
  • Yong Li,
  • Zhiqun Song,
  • Bin Wang and
  • Xingjian Li

22 June 2022

In this contribution, the concept of spatial modulation (SM) is firstly integrated into the structure of space-time block codes (STBC)-aided vertical Bell-labs layered space-time (VBLAST) systems, in order to strike a balanced tradeoff among bit erro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,630 Views
24 Pages

Optimized Distributed Generalized Reed-Solomon Coding with Space-Time Block Coded Spatial Modulation

  • Chunli Zhao,
  • Fengfan Yang,
  • Daniel Kariuki Waweru,
  • Chen Chen and
  • Hongjun Xu

22 August 2022

We present a well-known generalized Reed–Solomon (GRS) code incorporated with space-time block coded spatial modulation (STBC-SM) for wireless networks, which is capable of enjoying coded cooperation between the source and the relay. In the pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,290 Views
17 Pages

This study proposes two approaches for improving the effectiveness of spatial modulation integrated into layer division multiplexing (SM-LDM) in broadcasting systems: biased-power allocation (Bi-PA) and shared antenna selection (SAS). Even though dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,818 Views
20 Pages

This paper proposes, for the first time, a two-source asymmetric turbo-coded-cooperative spatial modulation (SM) scheme over the slow Rayleigh fading channel. As in any coded cooperative communication, the interleaver plays a vital role in mitigating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,982 Views
13 Pages

Secrecy Enhancing Scheme for Spatial Modulation Using Antenna Selection and Artificial Noise

  • Pingping Shang,
  • Weicheng Yu,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Xue-Qin Jiang and
  • Sooyoung Kim

26 June 2019

In this paper, we present a new secrecy-enhancing scheme for the spatial modulation (SM) system, by considering imperfect channel state information (CSI). In the proposed scheme, two antennas are activated at the same time. One of the activated anten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
708 Views
13 Pages

A Partitioned IRS-Aided Transmit SM Scheme for Wireless Communication

  • Liping Xiong,
  • Yuyang Peng,
  • Ming Yue,
  • Haihong Wei,
  • Runlong Ye,
  • Fawaz AL-Hazemi and
  • Mohammad Meraj Mirza

In this paper, we present a practical partitioned intelligent-reflecting-surface-aided transmit spatial modulation (PIRS-TSM) scheme, where spatial modulation is implemented at the transmitter and partitioning is conducted on the IRS to enhance the s...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,952 Views
3 Pages

Spatial Modulation (SM) is a candidate modulation scheme for beyond 5G communications systems due to its reduced hardware complexity and good trade-off between energy and spectral efficiency. This paper proposes two Machine Learning based solutions f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,668 Views
27 Pages

Spatial Downscaling of ESA CCI Soil Moisture Data Based on Deep Learning with an Attention Mechanism

  • Danwen Zhang,
  • Linjun Lu,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Jiahua Zhang,
  • Sha Zhang and
  • Shanshan Yang

15 April 2024

Soil moisture (SM) is a critical variable affecting ecosystem carbon and water cycles and their feedback to climate change. In this study, we proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) model embedded with a residual block and attention module, nam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,695 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Static Magnetic Field Stimulation on the Accuracy of Tachystoscopically Presented Line Bisection

  • Hikari Kirimoto,
  • Tatsunori Watanabe,
  • Nami Kubo,
  • Shota Date,
  • Toru Sunagawa,
  • Tatsuya Mima,
  • Katsuya Ogata,
  • Hisato Nakazono,
  • Shozo Tobimatsu and
  • Antonio Oliviero

18 December 2020

Transcranial static magnetic stimulation (tSMS) has been known to reduce human cortical excitability. Here, we investigated whether tSMS would modulate visuo-spatial cognition in healthy humans. Subjects performed a visuo-spatial task requiring judge...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
7,983 Views
20 Pages

AMSR2 Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Temperature and Vegetation Data

  • Bin Fang,
  • Venkat Lakshmi,
  • Rajat Bindlish and
  • Thomas J. Jackson

1 October 2018

Soil moisture (SM) applications in terrestrial hydrology require higher spatial resolution soil moisture products than those provided by passive microwave remote sensing instruments (grid resolution of 9 km or larger). In this investigation, an innov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,261 Views
27 Pages

9 December 2020

In this paper, a novel interference free dual-hop device-to-device (D2D) aided cooperative relaying strategy (CRS) based on spatial modulation (SM) (termed D2D-CRS-SM) is proposed. In D2D-CRS-SM, two cellular users (e.g., a near user (NU) and a relay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,776 Views
14 Pages

On the Performance of the Multiple Active Antenna Spatial Modulation with 3-Dimensional Constellation

  • Sheriff Murtala,
  • Tasnim Holoubi,
  • Nishal Muchena,
  • Manar Mohaisen and
  • Kang-Sun Choi

27 May 2020

In spatial modulation (SM), a single signal symbol is transmitted from a given physical antenna, where both the signal symbol and the antenna index carry information. SM with multiple active antennas (MA-SM) transmits several signal symbols from a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,607 Views
17 Pages

Covert Information Mapped Spatial and Directional Modulation toward Secure Wireless Transmission

  • Jie Tian,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Zhigang Wang,
  • Xianhua Shi,
  • Zhengyu Ji and
  • Xianglu Li

17 November 2021

Recently, the concept of spatial and direction modulation (SDM) has been developed to reap the advantages of both spatial modulation (SM) and directional modulation (DM). On the one hand, DM ensures the transmission security at the expected direction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,020 Views
17 Pages

Pilot-Based Adaptive Channel Estimation for Underwater Spatial Modulation Technologies

  • Naveed Ur Rehman Junejo,
  • Hamada Esmaiel,
  • Haixin Sun,
  • Zeyad A. H. Qasem and
  • Junfeng Wang

24 May 2019

Spatial Modulation Technologies (SMTs) are schemes that reduce inter-carrier interference (ICI), inter-channel interference, inter-antenna synchronization (IAS), and system complexity for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,431 Views
22 Pages

5 February 2025

Monitoring soil moisture (SM) on individual crop fields is of great interest for agricultural applications. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems such as Sentinel-1 provide sensitivity to surface SM at a spatial resolution compatible with crop-field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,932 Views
12 Pages

6 December 2019

Full-duplex (FD) communication and spatial modulation (SM) are two promising techniques to achieve high spectral efficiency. Recent works in the literature have investigated the possibility of combining the FD mode with SM in the relay system to bene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,553 Views
16 Pages

SM-TCNNET: A High-Performance Method for Detecting Human Activity Using WiFi Signals

  • Tianci Li,
  • Sicong Gao,
  • Yanju Zhu,
  • Zhiwei Gao,
  • Zihan Zhao,
  • Yinghua Che and
  • Tian Xia

25 May 2023

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research area with a wide range of application scenarios, such as smart homes, healthcare, abnormal behavior detection, etc. Wearable sensors, computer vision, radar, and other technologies are commonl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,098 Views
27 Pages

SSUM: Spatial–Spectral Unified Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Song Lu,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Yu Huo,
  • Chenhao Wang,
  • Jingwen Wang and
  • Chenyu Gao
Remote Sens.2024, 16(24), 4653;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16244653 
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12 December 2024

How to effectively extract spectral and spatial information and apply it to hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) has been a hot research topic. In recent years, the transformer-based HSIC models have attracted much interest due to their advantag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,011 Views
12 Pages

11 February 2025

As a novel variant of spatial modulation (SM), enhanced SM (ESM) provides higher spectral efficiency and improved bit error rate (BER) performance compared to SM. In ESM, traditional signal detection methods such as maximum likelihood (ML) have the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,264 Views
10 Pages

21 November 2022

Line-of-sight (LOS) indoor optical wireless communications (OWC) enable a high data rate transmission while potentially suffering from optical channel obstructions. Additional LOS links using diversity techniques can tackle the received signal perfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,202 Views
30 Pages

Cholesterol and Sphingomyelin Polarize at the Leading Edge of Migrating Myoblasts and Involve Their Clustering in Submicrometric Domains

  • Juliette Vanderroost,
  • Noémie Avalosse,
  • Danahe Mohammed,
  • Delia Hoffmann,
  • Patrick Henriet,
  • Christophe E. Pierreux,
  • David Alsteens and
  • Donatienne Tyteca

7 February 2023

Myoblast migration is crucial for myogenesis and muscular tissue homeostasis. However, its spatiotemporal control remains elusive. Here, we explored the involvement of plasma membrane cholesterol and sphingolipids in this process. In resting C2C12 mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
20 Pages

A Rapid Prediction Model of Rainstorm Flood Targeting Power Grid Facilities

  • Shuai Wang,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Xiaoli Hao,
  • Xiaohua Ren,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Hongping Zhang and
  • Mei Xu

19 January 2026

Rainstorm floods constitute one of the major natural hazards threatening the safe and stable operation of power grid facilities. Constructing a rapid and accurate prediction model is of great significance in order to enhance the disaster prevention c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,194 Views
20 Pages

Optimized Design of Distributed Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Coded Spatial Modulation

  • Chunli Zhao,
  • Fengfan Yang,
  • Daniel Kariuki Waweru,
  • Chen Chen and
  • Hongjun Xu

30 March 2023

We propose a distributed quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) coded spatial modulation (D-QC-LDPCC-SM) scheme with source, relay and destination nodes. At the source and relay, two distinct QC-LDPC codes are used. The relay chooses partial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,876 Views
20 Pages

8 November 2024

Recent research has demonstrated that global warming significantly enhances peak vegetation growth on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), underscoring the influence of climatic factors on vegetation dynamics. Nevertheless, the effects of different drought type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,029 Views
14 Pages

Underwater Image Transmission Using Spatial Modulation Unequal Error Protection for Internet of Underwater Things

  • Hamada Esmaiel,
  • Zeyad A. H. Qasem,
  • Haixin Sun,
  • Junfeng Wang and
  • Naveed Ur Rehman Junejo

29 November 2019

A spatial modulation (SM) scheme has been developed as a hopeful candidate for spectral and energy-efficient wireless communication systems, as it provides a great judgment for the system performance, data transmission rate, receiver complexity, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,003 Views
24 Pages

8 July 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel squeeze M-SegNet (SM-SegNet) architecture featuring a fire module to perform accurate as well as fast segmentation of the brain on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The proposed model utilizes uniform input pat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,491 Views
19 Pages

Intelligent Transmit Antenna Selection Schemes for High-Rate Fully Generalized Spatial Modulation

  • Hindavi Kishor Jadhav,
  • Vinoth Babu Kumaravelu,
  • Arthi Murugadass,
  • Agbotiname Lucky Imoize,
  • Poongundran Selvaprabhu and
  • Arunkumar Chandrasekhar

21 August 2023

The sixth-generation (6G) network is supposed to transmit significantly more data at much quicker rates than existing networks while meeting severe energy efficiency (EE) targets. The high-rate spatial modulation (SM) methods can be used to deal with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,112 Views
13 Pages

Optical Wireless Communications Using Signal Space Diversity with Spatial Modulation

  • Tingting Song,
  • Christina Lim,
  • Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas and
  • Ke Wang

22 October 2021

A signal space diversity (SSD) scheme was proposed to be incorporated with spatial modulation (SM) in an intensity-modulation/direct-detection-based multiple-input-single-output (MISO) indoor optical wireless communication (OWC) system to improve bit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,257 Views
15 Pages

1 December 2018

In this paper, spatial pulse position modulation (SPPM) is used as a case study to investigate the performance of the optical spatial modulation (SM) technique in outdoor atmospheric turbulence (AT). A closed-form expression for the upper bound on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
303 Views
17 Pages

Efficient Interleaved Multi-Band Outer Volume Suppression for Highly Accelerated Simultaneous Multi-Slice Imaging of the Heart

  • Ayda Arami,
  • Omer Burak Demirel,
  • Toygan Kilic,
  • Steen Moeller,
  • Yidong Zhao,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Qian Tao,
  • Hildo J. Lamb,
  • Mehmet Akçakaya and
  • Sebastian Weingärtner

In this work, we aimed to develop and evaluate multi-band outer volume suppression pulses for increased acceleration rates in simultaneous multi-slice accelerated cardiac MRI. MB-OVS pulses were constructed from a multi-band combination of two slab-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,617 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2020

A security-enhanced, spectral-efficient, and power-efficient multi-beam wireless communication scheme based on random frequency diverse array (RFDA) is proposed in this paper. (AN)-aided directional modulation (DM) schemes. Furthermore, with the aid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,245 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2021

Land-surface characteristics (LSCs) and land-soil moisture conditions can modulate energy partition at the land surface, impact near-surface atmosphere conditions, and further affect land–atmosphere interactions. This study investigates the effect of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,796 Views
15 Pages

Generalized spatial modulation (GSM) technology is an extension of spatial modulation (SM) technology, and one of its main advantages is to further improve band efficiency. However, the multiple active antennas for transmission also brings the demodu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,318 Views
16 Pages

20 April 2022

This study included the testing of normal (Gaussian) distribution of input data and, consequently, spatially interpolating maps of chemical components and cement modules in the flysch. This deposit contains the raw material for cement production. The...

  • Review
  • Open Access
439 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2025

Index modulation (IM) has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. Spatial modulation (SM) as a popular IM scheme is effective to increase spectral efficiency using the antenna index to transmit extra information bits. It can also add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,554 Views
23 Pages

Distributed Goppa-Coded Generalized Spatial Modulation: Optimized Design and Performance Study

  • Chunli Zhao,
  • Fengfan Yang,
  • Daniel Kariuki Waweru,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Hongjun Xu and
  • Lin Luo

The distributed Goppa-coded generalized spatial modulation (DGC-GSM) scheme with the source, relay, and destination in cooperative communications is proposed, where the source and relay adopt different Goppa codes. Goppa codes have many advantages su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,263 Views
17 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Attention Mechanisms in Densely Connected Network for Network Traffic Prediction

  • Myeongjun Oh,
  • Sung Oh,
  • Jongkyung Im,
  • Myungho Kim,
  • Joung-Sik Kim,
  • Ji-Yeon Park,
  • Na-Rae Yi and
  • Sung-Ho Bae

19 June 2025

Recently, STDenseNet (SpatioTemporal Densely connected convolutional Network) showed remarkable performance in predicting network traffic by leveraging the inductive bias of convolution layers. However, it is known that such convolution layers can on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,826 Views
13 Pages

23 September 2022

Turbulence in natural environments affects the reliability of communication. In this paper, we propose a symmetric matrix-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) maritime visible light communication (VLC) system to confront turbulence and impr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,273 Views
15 Pages

Performance Analysis of Generalized Quadrature Spatial Modulation with Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes Under Nakagami m-Fading Channels

  • Sagarkumar Patel,
  • Harishkumar B. Chaudhari,
  • Dharmendra Chauhan,
  • Hardik Modi,
  • Hiren Mewada and
  • Sagar Kavaiya

16 June 2025

Spatial Modulation (SM) is a promising technique for future wireless communication systems, as it reduces hardware cost and complexity while maintaining good bit error rate (BER) performance in MIMO systems. However, in real-world scenarios, systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,551 Views
29 Pages

Secrecy Rate Bounds in Spatial Modulation-Based Visible Light Communications under Signal-Dependent Noise Conditions

  • Yahya M. Al-Moliki,
  • Ali H. Alqahtani,
  • Mohammed T. Alresheedi and
  • Yahya Al-Harthi

3 October 2024

This study examines the physical-layer security of an indoor visible light communication (VLC) system using spatial modulation (SM), which consists of several transmitters, an authorized receiver, and a passive adversary. The SM technique is applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,442 Views
11 Pages

Improving Spectral Efficiency in the SCMA Uplink Channel

  • Sergio Vidal-Beltrán and
  • José Luis López-Bonilla

18 March 2021

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) identified the technical requirements that the fifth generation of mobile communications networks (5G) had to meet; within these parameters are the fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access

An Improved TransUNet Network for Water Body Extraction from SAR Imagery

  • Chunlin Wang,
  • Miner Huang,
  • Zhenxuan Li,
  • Tingye Tao and
  • Zhiyong Lv

17 March 2026

With the increasing demand for detecting small water bodies in remote sensing imagery, particularly in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, traditional water body extraction models often struggle to capture fine details and accurately delineate bou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,393 Views
21 Pages

High-Performance NIR Laser-Beam Shaping and Materials Processing at 350 W with a Spatial Light Modulator

  • Shuchen Zuo,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Cameron Pulham,
  • Yin Tang,
  • Walter Perrie,
  • Olivier J. Allegre,
  • Yue Tang,
  • Martin Sharp,
  • Jim Leach and
  • Geoff Dearden
  • + 5 authors

Shaping or splitting of a Gaussian beam is often desired to optimise laser–material interactions, improving throughput and quality. This can be achieved holographically using liquid crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulators (LC-SLMs). Until r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,189 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Spatial Decision Support System for Real-Time Flood Early Warning in the Vu Gia-Thu Bon River Basin, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

  • Hong T. Nguyen,
  • Trung Q. Duong,
  • Liem D. Nguyen,
  • Tram Q.N. Vo,
  • Nhat T. Tran,
  • Phuong D.N. Dang,
  • Long D. Nguyen,
  • Cuong K. Dang and
  • Loi K. Nguyen

17 March 2020

Vu Gia-Thu Bon (VGTB) river basin is an area where flash flood and heavy flood events occur frequently, negatively impacting the local community and socio-economic development of Quang Nam Province. In recent years, structural and non–structura...