Communications
Wireless and optical communications.
We conduct advanced research in wireless and optical communications from the network layer down to the physical layer, including highly reliable machine-to-machine wireless networks, routing and scheduling for IoT networks, massive MIMO for 5G systems, flexible wideband RF front-end architectures, advanced error correction coding, and novel modulation and transmission techniques with adaptive signal processing for coherent fiber-optic and free-space optical communications.
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Researchers
Toshiaki
Koike-Akino
Philip V.
Orlik
Jinyun
Zhang
Kieran
Parsons
Jianlin
Guo
Pu
(Perry)
Wang
Ye
Wang
Bingnan
Wang
Petros T.
Boufounos
Devesh K.
Jha
Yebin
Wang
Stefano
Di Cairano
Hongbo
Sun
Chungwei
Lin
Avishai
Weiss
Matthew
Brand
Ankush
Chakrabarty
Wataru
Tsujita
William S.
Yerazunis
Hassan
Mansour
Radu
Corcodel
Dehong
Liu
Frederick J.
Igo Jr.
Kenji
Inomata
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Awards
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AWARD MERL work receives IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Date: May 19, 2025
Awarded to: Yehan Ma, Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu
MERL Contacts: Stefano Di Cairano; Jianlin Guo; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Communications, Control, Machine LearningBrief- The paper “Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems”, co-authored by MERL intern Yehan Ma, MERL researchers Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, and Philip Orlik, and academic collaborators Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu, was recognized as the Best New Application Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), for "a new industrial automation solution that ensures safety operation through coordinated co-design of edge model predictive control and local actuation".
The award recognizes the best application paper published in T-ASE over the previous calendar year, for the significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation.
- The paper “Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems”, co-authored by MERL intern Yehan Ma, MERL researchers Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, and Philip Orlik, and academic collaborators Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu, was recognized as the Best New Application Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), for "a new industrial automation solution that ensures safety operation through coordinated co-design of edge model predictive control and local actuation".
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AWARD MERL’s Paper on Wi-Fi Sensing Earns Top 3% Paper Recognition at ICASSP 2023, Selected as a Best Student Paper Award Finalist Date: June 9, 2023
Awarded to: Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, Petros Boufounos and Petar Popovski
MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Signal ProcessingBrief- A MERL Paper on Wi-Fi sensing was recognized as a Top 3% Paper among all 2709 accepted papers at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). Co-authored by Cristian Vaca-Rubio and Petar Popovski from Aalborg University, Denmark, and MERL researchers Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, and Petros Boufounos, the paper "MmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning" was also a Best Student Paper Award finalist.
Performed during Cristian’s stay at MERL first as a visiting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and then as a full-time intern in 2022, this work capitalizes on standards-compliant Wi-Fi signals to perform indoor localization and sensing. The paper uses a neural dynamic learning framework to address technical issues such as low sampling rate and irregular sampling intervals.
ICASSP, a flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), was hosted on the Greek island of Rhodes from June 04 to June 10, 2023. ICASSP 2023 marked the largest ICASSP in history, boasting over 4000 participants and 6128 submitted papers, out of which 2709 were accepted.
- A MERL Paper on Wi-Fi sensing was recognized as a Top 3% Paper among all 2709 accepted papers at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). Co-authored by Cristian Vaca-Rubio and Petar Popovski from Aalborg University, Denmark, and MERL researchers Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, and Petros Boufounos, the paper "MmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning" was also a Best Student Paper Award finalist.
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AWARD Best Paper Award of 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices & Systems Date: March 27, 2023
Awarded to: Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Hiroshi Mineno
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal ProcessingBrief- MELCO/MERL research paper “IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1GHz Frequency Bands” has won the Best Paper Award of the 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices and Systems. The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) award was established in 1970 and is conferred on the authors of particularly excellent papers, which are published in the IPSJ journals and transactions. Our paper was published by the IPSJ Transaction on Consumer Device and System Vol. 29 in 2021 and authors are Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik and Hiroshi Mineno.
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News & Events
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NEWS Jianlin Guo delivered a Keynote in IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop Date: June 8, 2025 - June 12, 2025
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal ProcessingBrief- Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote titled "Multipath Transport in Industrial Private Wireless IoT Networks" in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025 Workshop on "Industrial Private Beyond-5G Wireless Networks", held in Montreal, Canada from June 8-12. Jianlin also presented two conference papers, two workshop papers, and chaired two technical sessions. The ICC is one of two IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences.
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NEWS Toshiaki Koike-Akino to give a tutorial talk at ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon Date: June 22, 2025
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
MERL Contact: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Optimization, Signal Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Information SecurityBrief- Toshiaki Koike-Akino is invited to present a tutorial talk at IEEE ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon, to be held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The talk, entitled "Emerging Quantum AI Technology", will discuss the recent trends, challenges, and applications of quantum artificial intelligence (QAI) technologies.
The ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon invites participants to explore the intersection of quantum computing and information theory. Participants will work with quantum simulators, available quantum hardware, and state-of-the-art development kits to create innovative solutions that connect quantum advancements with challenges in communication and signal processing.
The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Information Theory Society. The symposium centers around the presentation in all of the areas of information theory, including source and channel coding, communication theory and systems, cryptography and security, detection and estimation, networks, pattern recognition and learning, statistics, stochastic processes and complexity, and signal processing.
- Toshiaki Koike-Akino is invited to present a tutorial talk at IEEE ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon, to be held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The talk, entitled "Emerging Quantum AI Technology", will discuss the recent trends, challenges, and applications of quantum artificial intelligence (QAI) technologies.
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Research Highlights
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Recent Publications
- , "Learning Based Scheduling and Adaptive Congestion Control for Multipath QUIC", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) Workshop, June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-083 PDF
- @inproceedings{Das2025jun,
- author = {Das, Souryendu and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Orlik, Philip V. and Kalafatis, Stavros},
- title = {{Learning Based Scheduling and Adaptive Congestion Control for Multipath QUIC}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) Workshop},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-083}
- }
- , "Modeling Multipath TCP Over Heterogeneous WiFi and 5G Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-084 PDF
- @inproceedings{Guo2025jun,
- author = {Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Wang, Pu and Orlik, Philip V.},
- title = {{Modeling Multipath TCP Over Heterogeneous WiFi and 5G Networks}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-084}
- }
- , "AgriNex: Next-Gen Smart Agriculture with LLM-Integrated UAV-IoT Solutions", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-081 PDF
- @inproceedings{Hazarika2025jun,
- author = {Hazarika, Ananya and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V. and Rahmati, Mehdi},
- title = {{AgriNex: Next-Gen Smart Agriculture with LLM-Integrated UAV-IoT Solutions}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-081}
- }
- , "UAV Aided Smart Agriculture Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-082 PDF
- @inproceedings{Xiong2025jun,
- author = {Xiong, Guojun and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V. and Li, Jian},
- title = {{UAV Aided Smart Agriculture Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-082}
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- , "Rateless Deep Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Point Cloud", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3546514, Vol. 13, pp. 39585-39599, June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-069 PDF
- @article{Fujihashi2025jun,
- author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi},
- title = {{Rateless Deep Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Point Cloud}},
- journal = {IEEE Access},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 13,
- pages = {39585--39599},
- month = jun,
- doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3546514},
- issn = {2169-3536},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-069}
- }
- , "Enabling DMG Wi-Fi Sensing in Data Transmission Intervals by Exploiting Beam Training Codebook", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 2025.BibTeX TR2025-026 PDF
- @inproceedings{Attiah2025mar,
- author = {Attiah, Kareem and Wang, Pu and Mansour, Hassan and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Boufounos, Petros T.},
- title = {{Enabling DMG Wi-Fi Sensing in Data Transmission Intervals by Exploiting Beam Training Codebook}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- month = mar,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-026}
- }
- , "IEEE 802.19.3a Standardization: Updating Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Recommendations", IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), November 2024.BibTeX TR2024-161 PDF
- @inproceedings{Nagai2024nov,
- author = {Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Rolfe, Benjamin A. and Sumi, Takenori and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V.},
- title = {{IEEE 802.19.3a Standardization: Updating Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Recommendations}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN)},
- year = 2024,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-161}
- }
- , "Firmware Distribution with Erasure Code for IoT applications on IEEE 802.15.4g Mesh Network", Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications 2024, November 2024.BibTeX TR2024-153 PDF
- @inproceedings{Sumi2024nov,
- author = {Sumi, Takenori and Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Mineno, Hiroshi},
- title = {{Firmware Distribution with Erasure Code for IoT applications on IEEE 802.15.4g Mesh Network}},
- booktitle = {Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications 2024},
- year = 2024,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-153}
- }
- , "Learning Based Scheduling and Adaptive Congestion Control for Multipath QUIC", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) Workshop, June 2025.
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