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20192024
most citedLess Data, More Knowledge: Building Next Generation Semantic Communication Networks

45 citations · 157 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

eess.SP2024

Two-Stage Resource Allocation in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Hybrid Networks via Multi-Player Bandits

Jingwen Tong, Hongliang Zhang, Liqun Fu +2

This paper considers a resource allocation problem where several Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices send data to a base station (BS) with or without the help of the reconfigurable in…

cs.NI2023★ 1 cited

Massive Access of Static and Mobile Users via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Protocol Design and Performance Analysis

Xuelin Cao, Bo Yang, Chongwen Huang +5

The envisioned wireless networks of the future entail the provisioning of massive numbers of connections, heterogeneous data traffic, ultra-high spectral efficiency, and low latenc…

eess.SP2023

Anti-Jamming Precoding Against Disco Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Based Fully-Passive Jamming Attacks

Huan Huang, Lipeng Dai, Hongliang Zhang +5

Emerging intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) significantly improve system performance, but also pose a huge risk for physical layer security. Existing works have illustrated tha…

eess.SP2023

An Anti-Jamming Strategy for Disco Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Based Fully-Passive Jamming Attacks

Huan Huang, Hongliang Zhang, Yi Cai +2

Emerging intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) significantly improve system performance, while also pose a huge risk for physical layer security. A disco IRS (DIRS), i.e., an ille…

cs.NI2023★ 1 cited

Joint Foundation Model Caching and Inference of Generative AI Services for Edge Intelligence

Minrui Xu, Dusit Niyato, Hongliang Zhang +4

With the rapid development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), various multimedia services based on pretrained foundation models (PFMs) need to be effectively deployed. With…

cs.NI2023★ 11 cited

Sparks of GPTs in Edge Intelligence for Metaverse: Caching and Inference for Mobile AIGC Services

Minrui Xu, Dusit Niyato, Hongliang Zhang +4

Aiming at achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) for Metaverse, pretrained foundation models (PFMs), e.g., generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), can effectively provi…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Generative AI-empowered Simulation for Autonomous Driving in Vehicular Mixed Reality Metaverses

Minrui Xu, Dusit Niyato, Junlong Chen +5

In the vehicular mixed reality (MR) Metaverse, the distance between physical and virtual entities can be overcome by fusing the physical and virtual environments with multi-dimensi…

eess.SP2023

Disco Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Active Channel Aging for Fully-Passive Jamming Attacks

Huan Huang, Ying Zhang, Hongliang Zhang +3

Due to the open communications environment in wireless channels, wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks. However, existing approaches for jamming rely on knowledge of…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Generative AI-empowered Effective Physical-Virtual Synchronization in the Vehicular Metaverse

Minrui Xu, Dusit Niyato, Hongliang Zhang +4

Metaverse seamlessly blends the physical world and virtual space via ubiquitous communication and computing infrastructure. In transportation systems, the vehicular Metaverse can p…

cs.IT2023★ 2 cited

Illegal Intelligent Reflecting Surface Based Active Channel Aging: When Jammer Can Attack Without Power and CSI

Huan Huang, Ying Zhang, Hongliang Zhang +2

Illegal intelligent reflecting surfaces (I-IRSs), i.e., the illegal deployment and utilization of IRSs, impose serious harmful impacts on wireless networks. The existing I-IRS-base…

cs.AI2022★ 45 cited

Less Data, More Knowledge: Building Next Generation Semantic Communication Networks

Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad, Merouane Debbah +2

Semantic communication is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surg…

cs.NI2022★ 14 cited

EPViSA: Efficient Auction Design for Real-time Physical-Virtual Synchronization in the Metaverse

Minrui Xu, Dusit Niyato, Benjamin Wright +5

Metaverse can obscure the boundary between the physical and virtual worlds. Specifically, for the Metaverse in vehicular networks, i.e., the vehicular Metaverse, vehicles are no lo…

cs.IT2022★ 1 cited

Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Reflection-Refraction Circuit Model, Full-Dimensional Beamforming, and System Implementation

Shuhao Zeng, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di +5

The intelligent omni-surface (IOS) is a dynamic metasurface that has recently been proposed to achieve full-dimensional communications by realizing the dual function of anomalous r…

eess.SP2022

Meta-material Sensor Based Internet of Things: Design, Optimization, and Implementation

Jingzhi Hu, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di +3

For many applications envisioned for the Internet of Things (IoT), it is expected that the sensors will have very low costs and zero power, which can be satisfied by meta-material…

eess.SP2022★ 6 cited

MetaRadar: Multi-target Detection for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Radar Systems

Haobo Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di +3

As a widely used localization and sensing technique, radars will play an important role in future wireless networks. However, the wireless channels between the radar and the target…

cs.IT2022

Towards Ubiquitous Sensing and Localization With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Kaigui Bian +3

In future cellular systems, wireless localization and sensing functions will be built-in for specific applications, e.g., navigation, transportation, and healthcare, and to support…

cs.IT2021★ 7 cited

Age of Information in Energy Harvesting Aided Massive Multiple Access Networks

Zhengru Fang, Jingjing Wang, Yong Ren +3

Given the proliferation of the massive machine type communication devices (MTCDs) in beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks, energy harvesting (EH) aided next generation multiple access…

eess.SP2021

Reconfigurable Holographic Surfaces for Future Wireless Communications

Ruoqi Deng, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang +4

Future wireless communications look forward to constructing a ubiquitous intelligent information network with high data rates through cost-efficient devices. Benefiting from the tu…

eess.SP2021★ 1 cited

MetaSketch: Wireless Semantic Segmentation by Metamaterial Surfaces

Jingzhi Hu, Hongliang Zhang, Kaigui Bian +3

Semantic segmentation is a process of partitioning an image into multiple segments for recognizing humans and objects, which can be widely applied in scenarios such as healthcare a…

cs.DC2021★ 5 cited

Low-Latency Federated Learning over Wireless Channels with Differential Privacy

Kang Wei, Jun Li, Chuan Ma +5

In federated learning (FL), model training is distributed over clients and local models are aggregated by a central server. The performance of uploaded models in such situations ca…

cs.IT2021★ 19 cited

Intelligent Omni-Surfaces for Full-Dimensional Wireless Communications: Principle, Technology, and Implementation

Hongliang Zhang, Shuhao Zeng, Boya Di +6

The recent development of metasurfaces has motivated their potential use for improving the performance of wireless communication networks by manipulating the propagation environmen…

eess.SY2020★ 16 cited

Intelligent Omni-Surface: Ubiquitous Wireless Transmission by Reflective-Transmissive Metasurface

Shuhang Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di +5

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been wid…

eess.SP2020★ 5 cited

MetaRadar: Indoor Localization by Reconfigurable Metamaterials

Haobo Zhang, Jingzhi Hu, Hongliang Zhang +4

Indoor localization has drawn much attention owing to its potential for supporting location based services. Among various indoor localization techniques, the received signal streng…

cs.IT2019★ 16 cited

Hybrid Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface based Multi-user Communications: Achievable Rates with Limited Discrete Phase Shifts

Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Lingyang Song +3

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has drawn considerable attention from the research society recently, which creates favorable propagation conditions by controlling the phas…