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most citedWireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

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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.…

eess.SP2020★ 10 cited

Simultaneous Navigation and Radio Mapping for Cellular-Connected UAV with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Yong Zeng, Xiaoli Xu, Shi Jin +1

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional…

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…