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Location Privacy Threats and Protections in 6G Vehicular Networks: A Comprehensive Review
Baihe Ma, Xu Wang, Xiaojie Lin +8
Location privacy is critical in vehicular networks, where drivers' trajectories and personal information can be exposed, allowing adversaries to launch data and physical attacks th…
Learning-based Intelligent Surface Configuration, User Selection, Channel Allocation, and Modulation Adaptation for Jamming-resisting Multiuser OFDMA Systems
Xin Yuan, Shuyan Hu, Wei Ni +2
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can potentially combat jamming attacks by diffusing jamming signals. This paper jointly optimizes user selection, channel allocation, mod…
IronForge: An Open, Secure, Fair, Decentralized Federated Learning
Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang, Caijun Sun +5
Federated learning (FL) provides an effective machine learning (ML) architecture to protect data privacy in a distributed manner. However, the inevitable network asynchrony, the ov…
Dataset Obfuscation: Its Applications to and Impacts on Edge Machine Learning
Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang, Ping Yu +3
Obfuscating a dataset by adding random noises to protect the privacy of sensitive samples in the training dataset is crucial to prevent data leakage to untrusted parties for edge a…
Trajectory Planning of Cellular-Connected UAV for Communication-assisted Radar Sensing
Shuyan Hu, Xin Yuan, Wei Ni +1
Being a key technology for beyond fifth-generation wireless systems, joint communication and radar sensing (JCAS) utilizes the reflections of communication signals to detect foreig…
Two-Timescale Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted MIMO Transmission in Fast-Changing Channels
Yashuai Cao, Tiejun Lv, Wei Ni
The application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) depends on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI), and has been hindered by the heavy overhead of channel training…
Placement and Resource Allocation of Wireless-Powered Multiantenna UAV for Energy-Efficient Multiuser NOMA
Zhongyu Wang, Tiejun Lv, Jie Zeng +1
This paper investigates a new downlink nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a multiantenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is powered by wireless power transfer (WPT) a…
Three-dimensional Cooperative Localization of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Sensors
Yulong Wang, Shenghong Li, Wei Ni +4
Many location-based services use Received Signal Strength (RSS) measurements due to their universal availability. In this paper, we study the association of a large number of low-c…
Navigation of a UAV Equipped with a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for LoS Wireless Communication with a Ground Vehicle
Mohsen Eskandari, Hailong Huang, Andrey V. Savkin +1
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been successfully adopted to enhance the flexibility and robustness of wireless communication networks. And recently, the reconfigurable intell…
Sum-Rate Maximization for Multi-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Device-to-Device Communications
Yashuai Cao, Tiejun Lv, Wei Ni +1
This paper proposes to deploy multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in device-to-device (D2D)-underlaid cellular systems. The uplink sum-rate of the system is maximiz…
Capacity Analysis of Public Blockchain
Xu Wang, Wei Ni, Xuan Zha +4
As distributed ledgers, blockchains run consensus protocols which trade capacity for consistency, especially in non-ideal networks with incomplete connectivity and erroneous links.…
Joint Resource Management for MC-NOMA: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Shaoyang Wang, Tiejun Lv, Wei Ni +2
This paper presents a novel and effective deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach to addressing joint resource management (JRM) in a practical multi-carrier non-orthogonal…
Joint Estimation of Multipath Angles and Delays for Millimeter-Wave Cylindrical Arrays with Hybrid Front-ends
Zhipeng Lin, Tiejun Lv, Wei Ni +3
Accurate channel parameter estimation is challenging for wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) large-scale hybrid arrays, due to beam squint and much fewer radio frequency (RF) chains…
Joint Optimization of Trajectory, Propulsion and Thrust Powers for Covert UAV-on-UAV Video Tracking and Surveillance
Shuyan Hu, Wei Ni, Xin Wang +2
Autonomous tracking of suspicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by legitimate monitoring UAVs (or monitors) can be crucial to public safety and security. It is non-trivial to opt…
Distributed Machine Learning for Wireless Communication Networks: Techniques, Architectures, and Applications
S. Hu, X. Chen, W. Ni +2
Distributed machine learning (DML) techniques, such as federated learning, partitioned learning, and distributed reinforcement learning, have been increasingly applied to wireless…
Tensor-based Multi-dimensional Wideband Channel Estimation for mmWave Hybrid Cylindrical Arrays
Zhipeng Lin, Tiejun Lv, Wei Ni +2
Channel estimation is challenging for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) large-scale antenna arrays which are promising in 5G/B5G applications. The challenges are associated with angu…
Analysis and Optimization of Service Delay for Multi-quality Videos in Multi-tier Heterogeneous Network with Random Caching
Xuewei Zhang, Tiejun Lv, Yuan Ren +2
Aiming to minimize service delay, we propose a new random caching scheme in device-to-device (D2D)-assisted heterogeneous network. To support diversified viewing qualities of multi…
Nested Hybrid Cylindrical Array Design and DoA Estimation for Massive IoT Networks
Zhipeng Lin, Tiejun Lv, Wei Ni +2
Reducing cost and power consumption while maintaining high network access capability is a key physical-layer requirement of massive Internet of Things (mIoT) networks. Deploying a…
Cooling-Aware Resource Allocation and Load Management for Mobile Edge Computing Systems
Xiaojing Chen, Zhouyu Lu, Wei Ni +4
Driven by explosive computation demands of Internet of Things (IoT), mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising technique to enhance the computation capability for mobile use…
Multibeam Optimization for Joint Communication and Radio Sensing Using Analog Antenna Arrays
Yuyue Luo, J. Andrew Zhang, Xiaojing Huang +2
Multibeam technology enables the use of two or more subbeams for joint communication and radio sensing, to meet different requirements of beamwidth and pointing directions. Generat…
Waveform Optimization for MIMO Joint Communication and Radio Sensing Systems with Training Overhead
Xin Yuan, Zhiyong Feng, J. Andrew Zhang +4
In this paper, we study optimal waveform design to maximize mutual information (MI) for a joint communication and (radio) sensing (JCAS, a.k.a., radar-communication) multi-input mu…
Modeling and Analysis of Energy Harvesting and Smart Grid-Powered Wireless Communication Networks: A Contemporary Survey
Shuyan Hu, Xiaojing Chen, Wei Ni +2
The advancements in smart power grid and the advocation of ``green communications'' have inspired the wireless communication networks to harness energy from ambient environments an…
Delay-Constrained Joint Power Control, User Detection and Passive Beamforming in Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Uplink mmWave System
Yashuai Cao, Tiejun Lv, Zhipeng Lin +1
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide access to spectra with bandwidths and in abundance. However, the high susceptibility of mmWave to blockage imposes crucial challenge…
Design and Implementation of Secret Key Agreement for Platoon-based Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems
Kai Li, Wei Ni, Yousef Emami +4
In platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical system (PVCPS), a lead vehicle that is responsible for managing the platoon's moving directions and velocity periodically disseminates con…