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20162024
most citedLoad Balancing for 5G Ultra-Dense Networks using Device-to-Device Communications

28 citations · 284 across the 67 of their papers we have counts for

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68 papers

cs.IT2024

Reconfigurable Holographic Surface: A New Paradigm for Ultra-Massive MIMO

Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Rui Zhang +2

Evolving from massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in current 5G communications, ultra-massive MIMO emerges as a seminal technology for fulfilling more stringent requireme…

eess.SP2024

RIS-Aided Dual-Polarized MIMO: How Large a Surface is Needed to Beat Single Polarization?

Zizhou Zheng, Huan Huang, Hongliang Zhang +1

Dual-polarized (DP) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been widely adopted in commercial mobile wireless communications. Such systems achieve multiplexing and diver…

cs.NI2024

Large Models for Aerial Edges: An Edge-Cloud Model Evolution and Communication Paradigm

Shuhang Zhang, Qingyu Liu, Ke Chen +6

The future sixth-generation (6G) of wireless networks is expected to surpass its predecessors by offering ubiquitous coverage through integrated air-ground facility deployments in…

eess.SY2024

Meta-Backscatter: A New ISAC Paradigm for Battery-Free Internet of Things

Xu Liu, Hongliang Zhang, Kaigui Bian +2

The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved…

cs.IT2023★ 3 cited

Intelligent Surfaces Empowered Wireless Network: Recent Advances and The Road to 6G

Qingqing Wu, Beixiong Zheng, Changsheng You +11

Intelligent surfaces (ISs) have emerged as a key technology to empower a wide range of appealing applications for wireless networks, due to their low cost, high energy efficiency,…

eess.SP2023

DISCO Might Not Be Funky: Random Intelligent Reflective Surface Configurations That Attack

Huan Huang, Lipeng Dai, Hongliang Zhang +5

Emerging intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) significantly improve system performance, but also pose a significant risk for physical layer security (PLS). Unlike the extensive r…

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.IT2023

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Interference Management in UAV-based 3D Networks: Potentials and Challenges

Mojtaba Vaezi, Xingqin Lin, Hongliang Zhang +2

Modern cellular networks are multi-cell and use universal frequency reuse to maximize spectral efficiency. This results in high inter-cell interference. This problem is growing as…

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.IT2023★ 1 cited

Technology Trends for Massive MIMO towards 6G

Yiming Huo, Xingqin Lin, Boya Di +6

At the dawn of the next-generation wireless systems and networks, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been envisioned as one of the enabling technologies. With the co…

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…

eess.SP2022

Intelligent Omni-Surfaces Aided Wireless Communications: Does the Reciprocity Hold?

Shaohua Yue, Shuhao Zeng, Hongliang Zhang +3

Intelligent omni-surfaces (IOS) have attracted great attention recently due to its potential to achieve full-dimensional communications by simultaneously reflecting and refracting…

cs.IT2022★ 3 cited

Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Simultaneous Refraction and Reflection for Full-dimensional Wireless Communications

Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di

The development of metasurfaces has unlocked various use cases in wireless communication networks to improve performance by manipulating the propagation environment. Intelligent om…

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…

cs.IT2022

Reconfigurable Refractive Surfaces: An Energy-Efficient Way to Holographic MIMO

Shuhao Zeng, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di +3

Holographic Multiple Input Multiple Output (HMIMO), which integrates massive antenna elements into a compact space to achieve a spatially continuous aperture, plays an important ro…

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…

cs.IT2022★ 6 cited

Energy-Constrained Computation Offloading in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks using Distributionally Robust Optimization

Yali Chen, Bo Ai, Yong Niu +2

With the rapid development of connecting massive devices to the Internet, especially for remote areas without cellular network infrastructures, space-air-ground integrated networks…

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…