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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…