{"ID":5551854,"CreatedAt":"2026-07-02T01:54:51.863792489Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-07-04T07:28:02.592842364Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00537","arxiv_id":"2607.00537","title":"B2X Networks: Joint Design of Communication and Control for Embodied Intelligence","abstract":"This article proposes the concept of \\emph{brain-body-to-everything (B2X)} networks to facilitate the integration of wireless networks and embodied intelligence. In this framework, the \\emph{brain} refers to the intelligence functions for reasoning, planning, and decision-making, the \\emph{body} denotes the physical embodied agent that senses and acts in the real world, and \\emph{X} represents the surrounding ecosystem involved in the brain-body interaction loop. Two B2X architectures with \\emph{distributed} and \\emph{centralized} brains are introduced to characterize different placements of intelligence across the body, base station, and core network. The uplink and downlink designs of B2X networks are then discussed under a representative base-station-side brain setting. For the uplink, communication is redesigned for B2X state acquisition under event urgency, sensing volume, and simultaneous multi-body access. For the downlink, communication is redesigned to coordinate command delivery and conventional service under shared radio resources. Based on these uplink and downlink considerations, a communication-control Pareto boundary is further used to characterize the loop-level trade-off between wireless transmission performance and control quality in B2X networks. Finally, several open research problems are discussed to guide future B2X network design.","short_abstract":"This article proposes the concept of \\emph{brain-body-to-everything (B2X)} networks to facilitate the integration of wireless networks and embodied intelligence. In this framework, the \\emph{brain} refers to the intelligence functions for reasoning, planning, and decision-making, the \\emph{body} denotes the physical em...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00537","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00537v1","authors":"[\"Yuanwei Liu\",\"Xu Gan\",\"Zhaolin Wang\",\"Chongjun Ouyang\",\"Hao Jiang\",\"Zongyao Zhao\",\"Kaibin Huang\",\"Robert Schober\"]","published":"2026-07-01T07:28:22Z","proceeding":"eess.SP","tasks":"[\"eess.SP\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}