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Publications (33)

cs.IT2020

Decentralized Federated Learning via SGD over Wireless D2D Networks

Hong Xing, Osvaldo Simeone, Suzhi Bi

Federated Learning (FL), an emerging paradigm for fast intelligent acquisition at the network edge, enables joint training of a machine learning model over distributed data sets an…

eess.SP2026

Sparsity-Aware Event-Driven Impulse Radio Transceivers for Reliable Neuromorphic Inference

Zhengzhong Guan, Jiaying Li, Kanghua Li +2

The growing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) based artificial intelligence (AI) applications deployed at resource-constrained network edge call for ultra-reliable and low-latency…

cs.LG2025

Pre-Training and Personalized Fine-Tuning via Over-the-Air Federated Meta-Learning: Convergence-Generalization Trade-Offs

Haifeng Wen, Hong Xing, Osvaldo Simeone

For modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as large language models (LLMs), the training paradigm has recently shifted to pre-training followed by fine-tuning. Furth…

cs.IT2019

Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing with Dynamic Task Arrivals

Feng Wang, Hong Xing, Jie Xu

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a multi-antenna access point (AP) employs the radio-frequency (RF) signal based wireless…

cs.NE2024

PRF: Parallel Resonate and Fire Neuron for Long Sequence Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

Yulong Huang, Zunchang Liu, Changchun Feng +6

Recently, there is growing demand for effective and efficient long sequence modeling, with State Space Models (SSMs) proving to be effective for long sequence tasks. To further red…

cs.IT2020

Real-Time Resource Allocation for Wireless Powered Multiuser Mobile Edge Computing With Energy and Task Causality

Feng Wang, Hong Xing, Jie Xu

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which a multi-antenna hybrid access point (AP) wirelessly charges multiple users, and each…

eess.SP2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) for Mobile Communications: A Diffusion Model Perspective

Xiaoxia Xu, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu +3

This article targets at unlocking the potentials of a class of prominent generative artificial intelligence (GAI) method, namely diffusion model (DM), for mobile communications. Fi…

eess.SP2018

Joint Task Assignment and Wireless Resource Allocation for Cooperative Mobile-Edge Computing

Hong Xing, Liang Liu, Jie Xu +1

This paper studies a multi-user cooperative mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which a local mobile user can offload intensive computation tasks to multiple nearby edge devices…

cs.LG2026

Differential Privacy as a Perk: Federated Learning over Multiple-Access Fading Channels with a Multi-Antenna Base Station

Hao Liang, Haifeng Wen, Kaishun Wu +1

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves privacy by eliminating the need to exchange raw data during training. In its prototypical edge instantiati…

cs.IT2018

Optimal Throughput Fairness Trade-offs for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access over Fading Channels

Hong Xing, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan +2

Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has attracted considerable interest as one of the 5G-enabling techniques. However, users with better channel conditions in downlink…

cs.IT2018

Energy-Efficient Mobile-Edge Computation Offloading for Applications with Shared Data

Xiangyu He, Hong Xing, Yue Chen +1

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been recognized as a promising solution to alleviate the burden of resource-limited Internet of Thing (IoT) devices by offloading comp…

cs.IT2018

Multiple Antenna Assisted Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access

Yuanwei Liu, Hong Xing, Cunhua Pan +3

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is potentially capable of circumventing the limitations of the classic orthogonal multiple access schemes, hence it has recently received sign…

eess.SY2024

Accelerating Mobile Edge Generation (MEG) by Constrained Learning

Xiaoxia Xu, Yuanwei Liu, Xidong Mu +2

A novel accelerated mobile edge generation (MEG) framework is proposed for generating high-resolution images on mobile devices. Exploiting a large-scale latent diffusion model (LDM…

cs.IT2017

Optimizing DF Cognitive Radio Networks with Full-Duplex-Enabled Energy Access Points

Hong Xing, Xin Kang, Kai-Kit Wong +1

With the recent advances in radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) technologies, wireless powered cooperative cognitive radio network (CCRN) has drawn an upsurge of interest f…

cs.IT2021

Federated Learning over Wireless Device-to-Device Networks: Algorithms and Convergence Analysis

Hong Xing, Osvaldo Simeone, Suzhi Bi

The proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and cloud-computing applications over siloed data centers is motivating renewed interest in the collaborative training of a sh…

cs.IT2017

Physical Layer Security Jamming: Theoretical Limits and Practical Designs in Wireless Networks

Kanapathippillai Cumanan, Hong Xing, Peng Xu +5

Physical layer security has been recently recognized as a promising new design paradigm to provide security in wireless networks. In addition to the existing conventional cryptogra…

cs.IT2015

Wireless Powered Cooperative Jamming for Secrecy Multi-AF Relaying Networks

Hong Xing, Kai-Kit Wong, Arumugam Nallanathan +1

This paper studies secrecy transmission with the aid of a group of wireless energy harvesting (WEH)-enabled amplify-and-forward (AF) relays performing cooperative jamming (CJ) and…

cs.LG2026

An Improved Privacy and Utility Analysis of Differentially Private SGD with Bounded Domain and Smooth Losses

Hao Liang, Wanrong Zhang, Xinlei He +2

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to protect sensitive data during the training of machine learning models, but its privacy guarantee often…

cs.IT2015

To Harvest and Jam: A Paradigm of Self-Sustaining Friendly Jammers for Secure AF Relaying

Hong Xing, Kai-Kit Wong, Zheng Chu +1

This paper studies the use of multi-antenna harvest-and-jam (HJ) helpers in a multi-antenna amplify-and-forward (AF) relay wiretap channel assuming that the direct link between the…

cs.IT2022

Joint Resource Allocation and Cache Placement for Location-Aware Multi-User Mobile Edge Computing

Jiechen Chen, Hong Xing, Xiaohui Lin +2

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has em…

cs.IT2015

Secrecy Wireless Information and Power Transfer in Fading Wiretap Channel

Hong Xing, Liang Liu, Rui Zhang

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has recently drawn significant interests for its dual use of radio signals to provide wireless data and energy access a…

cs.IT2019

Energy-Efficient Proactive Caching for Fog Computing with Correlated Task Arrivals

Hong Xing, Jingjing Cui, Yansha Deng +1

With the proliferation of latency-critical applications, fog-radio network (FRAN) has been envisioned as a paradigm shift enabling distributed deployment of cloud-clone facilities…

cs.LG2026

Efficient Federated Conformal Prediction with Group-Conditional Guarantee

Haifeng Wen, Osvaldo Simeone, Hong Xing

Deploying trustworthy AI systems requires principled uncertainty quantification. Conformal prediction (CP) is a widely used framework for constructing prediction sets with distribu…

cs.IT2023

Task-Oriented Integrated Sensing, Computation and Communication for Wireless Edge AI

Hong Xing, Guangxu Zhu, Dongzhu Liu +3

With the advent of emerging IoT applications such as autonomous driving, digital-twin and metaverse etc. featuring massive data sensing, analyzing and inference as well critical la…

cs.IT2024

NCAirFL: CSI-Free Over-the-Air Federated Learning Based on Non-Coherent Detection

Haifeng Wen, Nicolò Michelusi, Osvaldo Simeone +1

Over-the-air federated learning (FL), i.e., AirFL, leverages computing primitively over multiple access channels. A long-standing challenge in AirFL is to achieve coherent signal a…

cs.IT2019

Joint Task Assignment and Resource Allocation for D2D-Enabled Mobile-Edge Computing

Hong Xing, Liang Liu, Jie Xu +1

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-…

eess.SP2025

Unsupervised Learning for AoD Estimation in MISO Downlink LoS Transmissions

Jiaying Li, Yuanwei Liu, Hong Xing

With the emergence of simultaneous localization and communication (SLAC), it becomes more and more attractive to perform angle of departure (AoD) estimation at the receiving Intern…

cs.NI2019

Collaborative Computation Offloading in Wireless Powered Mobile-Edge Computing Systems

Binqi He, Suzhi Bi, Hong Xing +1

This paper studies a novel user cooperation model in a wireless powered mobile edge computing system where two wireless users harvest wireless power transferred by one energy node…

cs.IT2023

AirFL-Mem: Improving Communication-Learning Trade-Off by Long-Term Memory

Haifeng Wen, Hong Xing, Osvaldo Simeone

Addressing the communication bottleneck inherent in federated learning (FL), over-the-air FL (AirFL) has emerged as a promising solution, which is, however, hampered by deep fading…

cs.LG2025

Distributed Conformal Prediction via Message Passing

Haifeng Wen, Hong Xing, Osvaldo Simeone

Post-hoc calibration of pre-trained models is critical for ensuring reliable inference, especially in safety-critical domains such as healthcare. Conformal Prediction (CP) offers a…

cs.IT2023

Joint Task Offloading and Cache Placement for Energy-Efficient Mobile Edge Computing Systems

Jingxuan Liang, Hong Xing, Feng Wang +1

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the…

eess.SP2025

User Localization and Channel Estimation for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)

Xiaoxia Xu, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu +2

This letter proposes a novel user localization and channel estimation framework for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching antennas are grouped into subarrays on each wave…

cs.IT2023

Convergence Analysis of Over-the-Air FL with Compression and Power Control via Clipping

Haifeng Wen, Hong Xing, Osvaldo Simeone

One of the key challenges towards the deployment of over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) is the design of mechanisms that can comply with the power and bandwidth constraints of…