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most citedWireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

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eess.SY2022★ 13 cited

ISAC from the Sky: UAV Trajectory Design for Joint Communication and Target Localization

Xiaoye Jing, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros +1

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (BSs) are able to provide not only the communication service to ground users, but also the sensing functionality to localize…

cs.IT2022

Channel Knowledge Map (CKM)-Assisted Multi-UAV Wireless Network: CKM Construction and UAV Placement

Haoyun Li, Peiming Li, Jie Xu +2

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has recently emerged to facilitate the placement and trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. This paper investigates a…

cs.IT2022★ 1 cited

Environment-Aware Hybrid Beamforming by Leveraging Channel Knowledge Map

Di Wu, Yong Zeng, Shi Jin +1

Hybrid analog/digital beamforming is a promising technique to realize millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems cost-effectively. However, exis…

cs.IT2022

Derivative-Free Placement Optimization for Multi-UAV Wireless Networks with Channel Knowledge Map

Haoyun Li, Peiming Li, Jie Xu +2

This paper studies a multi-UAV wireless network, in which multiple UAV users share the same spectrum to send individual messages to their respectively associated ground base statio…

cs.IT2022

Beamforming Towards Seamless Sensing Coverage for Cellular Integrated Sensing and Communication

Ruoguang Li, Zhiqiang Xiao, Yong Zeng

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to offer a new paradigm of cellular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, due to the intrinsic…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Environment-Aware Beam Selection for IRS-Aided Communication with Channel Knowledge Map

Dingyang Ding, Di Wu, Yong Zeng +2

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided communication is a promising technology for beyond 5G (B5G) systems, to reconfigure the radio environment proactively. However, IRS-aided…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Channel Knowledge Map for Environment-Aware Communications: EM Algorithm for Map Construction

Kun Li, Peiming Li, Yong Zeng +1

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is an emerging technique to enable environment-aware wireless communications, in which databases with location-specific channel knowledge are used to fa…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Multi-User Communication with Extremely Large-Scale MIMO

Haiquan Lu, Yong Zeng

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communication aims to further boost the antenna size significantly than current massive MIMO systems, for which conve…

cs.IT2021★ 3 cited

Cell-Free Symbiotic Radio: Channel Estimation Method and Achievable Rate Analysis

Zhuoyin Dai, Ruoguang Li, Jingran Xu +2

Cell-free massive MIMO and symbiotic radio are promising beyond 5G (B5G) networking architecture and transmission technology, respectively. This paper studies cell-free symbiotic r…

cs.IT2021

Wireless Communication with Extremely Large-Scale Intelligent Reflecting Surface

Chao Feng, Haiquan Lu, Yong Zeng +2

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for wireless communications, thanks to its potential capability to engineer the radio environment. However, in practi…

eess.SP2021

SNR Scaling Laws for Radio Sensing with Extremely Large-Scale MIMO

Huizhi Wang, Yong Zeng

Mobile communication networks were designed to mainly support ubiquitous wireless communications, yet they are expected to also achieve radio sensing capabilities in the near futur…

cs.IT2021★ 17 cited

Communicating with Extremely Large-Scale Array/Surface: Unified Modelling and Performance Analysis

Haiquan Lu, Yong Zeng

Wireless communications with extremely large-scale array (XL-array) correspond to systems whose antenna sizes are so large that conventional modelling assumptions, such as uniform…

cs.IT2021★ 8 cited

Enabling Smart Reflection in Integrated Air-Ground Wireless Network: IRS Meets UAV

Changsheng You, Zhenyu Kang, Yong Zeng +1

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have emerged as two promising technologies to boost the performance of wireless communication networks, by pr…

eess.SP2021

Environment-Aware and Training-Free Beam Alignment for mmWave Massive MIMO via Channel Knowledge Map

Di Wu, Yong Zeng, Shi jin +1

Millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is expected to achieve enormous transmission rate, provided that the transmit and receiv…

cs.IT2020★ 6 cited

Communication and Localization with Extremely Large Lens Antenna Array

Jie Yang, Yong Zeng, Shi Jin +2

Achieving high-rate communication with accurate localization and wireless environment sensing has emerged as an important trend of beyond-fifth and sixth generation cellular system…

cs.IT2020★ 7 cited

How Does Performance Scale with Antenna Number for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO?

Haiquan Lu, Yong Zeng

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communications correspond to systems whose antenna size is so large that conventional assumptions, such as uniform pl…

cs.IT2020★ 8 cited

A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks with UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence

Qingqing Wu, Jie Xu, Yong Zeng +4

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and…

cs.IT2020★ 9 cited

Towards Environment-Aware 6G Communications via Channel Knowledge Map

Yong Zeng, Xiaoli Xu

This article proposes the concept of channel knowledge map (CKM) as an enabler towards environment-aware wireless communications. CKM is a site-specific database, tagged with the l…

cs.IT2020★ 2 cited

A Survey of Prototype and Experiment for UAV Communications

Qingheng Song, Yong Zeng, Jie Xu +1

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various applicati…

eess.SP2020★ 15 cited

Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Joint Placement and Passive Beamforming Design with 3D Beam Flattening

Haiquan Lu, Yong Zeng, Shi Jin +1

This paper proposes a new three-dimensional (3D) wireless passive relaying system enabled by aerial IRS (AIRS). Compared to the conventional terrestrial IRS, AIRS enjoys more deplo…

eess.SP2020★ 39 cited

An Overview on Integrated Localization and Communication Towards 6G

Zhiqiang Xiao, Yong Zeng

While the 5G cellular system is being deployed worldwide, researchers have started the investigation of the 6G mobile communication networks. Although the essential requirements an…

eess.SP2020★ 3 cited

Achievable Rate Region of MISO Interference Channel Aided by Intelligent Reflecting Surface

Wei Huang, Yong Zeng, Yongming Huang

This paper investigates the achievable rate region of the multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel aided by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). We exploit the t…

eess.SP2020★ 6 cited

Energy Model for UAV Communications: Experimental Validation and Model Generalization

Ning Gao, Yong Zeng, Jian Wang +5

Wireless communication involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to play an important role in future wireless networks. However, different from conventional terrestrial…

cs.NI2020★ 2 cited

Time-Weighted Coverage of Integrated Aerial and Ground Networks for Post-Disaster Communications

Xiaoli Xu, Yong Zeng

In this paper, we propose a new three dimensional (3D) networking architecture with integrated aerial and ground base stations (BSs) for swift post-disaster communication recovery.…