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most citedWireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

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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…

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…

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…

cs.IT2020★ 3 cited

Multi-Antenna UAV Data Harvesting: Joint Trajectory and Communication Optimization

Jingwei Zhang, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising technology to extend coverage and enhance throughput for traditional terrestrial wireless communication systems.…

cs.IT2020★ 20 cited

Enabling Panoramic Full-Angle Reflection via Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surface

Haiquan Lu, Yong Zeng, Shi Jin +1

This paper proposes a new three dimensional (3D) networking architecture enabled by aerial intelligent reflecting surface (AIRS) to achieve panoramic signal reflection from the sky…

cs.IT2019★ 7 cited

Common Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled Interference Channel with Wireless Powered Communications

Lifeng Xie, Jie Xu, Yong Zeng

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled two-user interference channel for wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), in which two UAVs wirelessly charge t…

cs.IT2019★ 2 cited

Online Maneuver Design for UAV-Enabled NOMA Systems via Reinforcement Learning

Yuwei Huang, Xiaopeng Mo, Jie Xu +2

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle enabled-up link non-orthogonal multiple-access system, where multiple mobile users on the ground send independent messages to a unma…

cs.IT2019

Minimum-Latency FEC Design with Delayed Feedback: Mathematical Modeling and Efficient Algorithms

Xiaoli Xu, Yong Zeng, Yonghui Li +1

In this paper, we consider the packet-level forward error correction (FEC) code design, without feedback or with delayed feedback, for achieving the minimum end-to-end latency, i.e…

cs.IT2019★ 1 cited

Receding Horizon Optimization for Energy-Efficient UAV Communication

Jingwei Zhang, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

In this letter, we study a wireless communication system with a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) employed to collect information from a group of ground nodes (GNs). Our obj…

cs.IT2018★ 10 cited

Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization for UAV-Enabled Mobile Relaying

Lin Xiao, Yu Xu, Dingcheng Yang +1

This paper investigates the secrecy energy efficiency (SEE) maximization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle enabled mobile relaying system, where a high-mobility UAV is exploited…

cs.IT2018★ 14 cited

Cellular-Enabled UAV Communication: A Connectivity-Constrained Trajectory Optimization Perspective

Shuowen Zhang, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both…