NF-TrackLLM: Joint Prediction of UAV Trajectory and Near-Field Beam for LAE XL-MIMO Systems

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Main Authors: Lu, Qianfan, Li, Mengyuan, Tian, Jiachen, Han, Yu, Li, Xiao, Jin, Shi
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author Lu, Qianfan
Li, Mengyuan
Tian, Jiachen
Han, Yu
Li, Xiao
Jin, Shi
author_facet Lu, Qianfan
Li, Mengyuan
Tian, Jiachen
Han, Yu
Li, Xiao
Jin, Shi
contents User localization and beam management are tightly linked in extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, especially in dense low-altitude economy (LAE) scenarios. However, the near-field propagation in XL-MIMO introduces strong distance sensitivity and complex spatial coupling, which makes joint trajectory and beam prediction challenging. Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) have attracted attention in physical-layer transmission for modeling long-range dependencies. In this paper, we propose NF-TrackLLM, a multi-modal semantic-aware framework for near-field unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) positioning and beam prediction in XL-MIMO systems. By incorporating visual and LiDAR sensing into a Sionna-based channel generation pipeline, environmental semantics and GPS are utilized to guide trajectory and beam prediction. Built upon the aligned multi-modal representation, a GPT-2-based spatiotemporal reasoning backbone, and a cascaded prediction strategy are employed, where future trajectories are first inferred and then used to guide beam prediction as geometric priors. Simulation results demonstrate that NF-TrackLLM achieves accurate beam prediction and reliable UAV trajectory tracking in dense urban low-altitude scenarios.
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spellingShingle NF-TrackLLM: Joint Prediction of UAV Trajectory and Near-Field Beam for LAE XL-MIMO Systems
Lu, Qianfan
Li, Mengyuan
Tian, Jiachen
Han, Yu
Li, Xiao
Jin, Shi
Signal Processing
User localization and beam management are tightly linked in extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, especially in dense low-altitude economy (LAE) scenarios. However, the near-field propagation in XL-MIMO introduces strong distance sensitivity and complex spatial coupling, which makes joint trajectory and beam prediction challenging. Meanwhile, large language models (LLMs) have attracted attention in physical-layer transmission for modeling long-range dependencies. In this paper, we propose NF-TrackLLM, a multi-modal semantic-aware framework for near-field unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) positioning and beam prediction in XL-MIMO systems. By incorporating visual and LiDAR sensing into a Sionna-based channel generation pipeline, environmental semantics and GPS are utilized to guide trajectory and beam prediction. Built upon the aligned multi-modal representation, a GPT-2-based spatiotemporal reasoning backbone, and a cascaded prediction strategy are employed, where future trajectories are first inferred and then used to guide beam prediction as geometric priors. Simulation results demonstrate that NF-TrackLLM achieves accurate beam prediction and reliable UAV trajectory tracking in dense urban low-altitude scenarios.
title NF-TrackLLM: Joint Prediction of UAV Trajectory and Near-Field Beam for LAE XL-MIMO Systems
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26928