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Edge Information Hub-Empowered 6G NTN: Latency-Oriented Resource Orchestration and Configuration
Yueshan Lin, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +3
Quick response to disasters is crucial for saving lives and reducing loss. This requires low-latency uploading of situation information to the remote command center. Since terrestr…
Edge Information Hub: Orchestrating Satellites, UAVs, MEC, Sensing and Communications for 6G Closed-Loop Controls
Chengleyang Lei, Wei Feng, Peng Wei +3
An increasing number of field robots would be used for mission-critical tasks in remote or post-disaster areas. Due to the limited individual abilities, these robots usually requir…
Structured Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks for 6G Internet of Things
Wei Feng, Yanmin Wang, Yunfei Chen +2
The upcoming sixth generation (6G) wireless communication network is envisioned to cover space, air, and maritime areas, in addition to urban-centered terrestrial coverage by the f…
Radio Map-Based Spectrum Sharing for Joint Communication and Sensing
Xionran Fang, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +4
The sixth-generation (6G) network is expected to provide both communication and sensing (C&S) services. However, spectrum scarcity poses a major challenge to the harmonious coexist…
Satellite-MEC Integration for 6G Internet of Things: Minimal Structures, Advances, and Prospects
Yueshan Lin, Wei Feng, Yanmin Wang +4
The sixth-generation (6G) network is envisioned to shift its focus from the service requirements of human beings' to those of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices'. Satellite communica…
Control-Oriented Deep Space Communications For Unmanned Space Exploration
Xinran Fang, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +2
In unmanned space exploration, the cooperation among space robots requires advanced communication techniques. In this paper, we propose a communication optimization scheme for a sp…
Joint Mobility Control and MEC Offloading for Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial-Network-Enabled Robots
Peng Wei, Wei Feng, Yanmin Wang +3
Benefiting from the fusion of communication and intelligent technologies, network-enabled robots have become important to support future machine-assisted and unmanned applications.…
Control-Oriented Power Allocation for Integrated Satellite-UAV Networks
Chengleyang Lei, Wei Feng, Jue Wang +2
This letter presents a sensing-communication-computing-control (SC3) integrated satellite unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network, where the UAV is equipped with on-board sensors, mo…
Integrating Satellites and Mobile Edge Computing for 6G Wide-Area Edge Intelligence: Minimal Structures and Systematic Thinking
Yueshan Lin, Wei Feng, Ting Zhou +4
The sixth-generation (6G) network will shift its focus to supporting everything including various machine-type devices (MTDs) in an everyone-centric manner. To ubiquitously cover t…
Joint Communication and Sensing: Models and Potential of Using MIMO
Xinran Fang, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +2
The sixth-generation (6G) network is envisioned to integrate communication and sensing functions, so as to improve the spectrum efficiency (SE) and support explosive novel applicat…
Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Mobile Edge Computing for 6G Edge Intelligence
Peng Wei, Kun Guo, Ye Li +5
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered a novel paradigm for computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks in fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond. However, its uncertaint…
Physical Layer Security for UAV Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks
Jue Wang, Xuanxuan Wang, Ruifeng Gao +5
Due to its high mobility and flexible deployment, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is drawing unprecedented interest in both military and civil applications to enable agile wireless c…
Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks for 6G Ubiquitous Coverage: A Maritime Communications Perspective
Yanmin Wang, Wei Feng, Jue Wang +1
In the coming smart ocean era, reliable and efficient communications are crucial for promoting a variety of maritime activities. Current maritime communication networks (MCNs) main…
NOMA-Based Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks for Beyond 5G Maritime Internet of Things
Xinran Fang, Wei Feng, Yanmin Wang +3
Current fifth-generation (5G) networks do not cover maritime areas, causing difficulties in developing maritime Internet of Things (IoT). To tackle this problem, we establish a nea…
MEC-Empowered Non-Terrestrial Network for 6G Wide-Area Time-Sensitive Internet of Things
Chengxiao Liu, Wei Feng, Xiaoming Tao +1
In the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) era, the demand for constructing a wide-area time-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) keeps increasing. As conventional cellular technologies a…
5G Embraces Satellites for 6G Ubiquitous IoT: Basic Models for Integrated Satellite Terrestrial Networks
Xinran Fang, Wei Feng, Te Wei +3
Terrestrial communication networks mainly focus on users in urban areas but have poor coverage performance in harsh environments, such as mountains, deserts, and oceans. Satellites…
Delay Characterization of Mobile Edge Computing for 6G Time-Sensitive Services
Jianyu Cao, Wei Feng, Ning Ge +1
Time-sensitive services (TSSs) have been widely envisioned for future sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks. Due to its inherent low-latency advantage, mobile edge…
Cell-Free Satellite-UAV Networks for 6G Wide-Area Internet of Things
Chengxiao Liu, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +2
In fifth generation (5G) and beyond Internet of Things (IoT), it becomes increasingly important to serve a massive number of IoT devices outside the coverage of terrestrial cellula…
Enabling 5G on the Ocean: A Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Network Solution
Xiangling Li, Wei Feng, Jue Wang +3
Current fifth generation (5G) cellular networks mainly focus on the terrestrial scenario. Due to the difficulty of deploying communications infrastructure on the ocean, the perform…
Rethinking Blockchains in the Internet of Things Era from a Wireless Communication Perspective
Hongxin Wei, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +2
Due to the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), a massive number of devices are connected to the Internet. For these distributed devices in IoT networks, how to ensure th…
A 6G White Paper on Connectivity for Remote Areas
Harri Saarnisaari, Sudhir Dixit, Mohamed-Slim Alouini +31
In many places all over the world rural and remote areas lack proper connectivity that has led to increasing digital divide. These areas might have low population density, low inco…
Creating Efficient Blockchains for the Internet of Things by Coordinated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Hongxin Wei, Wei Feng, Chi Zhang +3
Blockchain has emerged as a promising technology that can guarantee data consistency and integrity among distributed participants. It has been used in many applications of the Inte…
UAV Swarm-Enabled Aerial CoMP: A Physical Layer Security Perspective
Xuanxuan Wang, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +1
Unlike aerial base station enabled by a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), aerial coordinated multiple points (CoMP) can be enabled by a UAV swarm. In this case, the management…
Optimal Beamforming for Hybrid Satellite Terrestrial Networks with Nonlinear PA and Imperfect CSIT
Chengxiao Liu, Wei Feng, Yunfei Chen +2
In hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks (HSTNs), spectrum sharing is crucial to alleviate the "spectrum scarcity" problem. Therein, the transmit beams should be carefully designed…