no code implementations • 2 Dec 2024 • Hao Lei, Jiayi Zhang, Huahua Xiao, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Bo Ai
Secondly, a user localization scheme combining CBS and beam training is proposed.
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2024 • Xianxin Song, Yuan Fang, Feng Wang, Zixiang Ren, Xianghao Yu, Ye Zhang, Fan Liu, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Rui Zhang, Shuguang Cui
Next, we consider a single IRS to facilitate integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which the transmit signals at the BS are used for achieving both S&C functionalities, aided by the IRS through reflective beamforming.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2024 • Jun Wu, Weijie Yuan, Zhiqiang Wei, Kecheng Zhang, Fan Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is anticipated to be a promising candidate for supporting integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, which is considered as a pivotal technique for realizing next generation wireless networks.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2024 • Xianxin Song, Xiaoqi Qin, Xianghao Yu, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
This letter studies an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) target detection system, in which an active IRS equipped with active reflecting elements and sensors is strategically deployed to facilitate target detection in the NLoS region of the base station (BS) by processing echo signals through the BS-IRS-target-IRS link.
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2024 • Yifei Wu, Dongfang Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Wolfgang Gerstacker, Robert Schober
In particular, we optimize the beamforming and the MA positions at the BS to minimize the total BS power consumption, encompassing both radiated and MA motion power while guaranteeing a minimum required SINR for each user.
no code implementations • 26 May 2024 • Jiapeng Li, Xiaodan Shao, Feng Chen, Shaohua Wan, Chang Liu, Zhiqiang Wei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Furthermore, we analyze the mean square error of the proposed distributed algorithm as a networked sensing performance metric and propose a beamforming design for the proposed network ISAC scheme to maximize the networked sensing accuracy and communication performance subject to a transmit power constraint.
no code implementations • 24 May 2024 • Hao Lei, Jiayi Zhang, Zhe Wang, Bo Ai, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
For the first scenario in which the prior knowledge of the specific proportion of the number of near-field and far-field channel paths is known, the scheme can effectively leverage the angular-domain sparsity of the far-field channels and the polar-domain sparsity of the near-field channels such that the channel estimation in these two fields can be performed separately.
no code implementations • 22 May 2024 • Zixiang Ren, Siyao Zhang, Xinmin Li, Ling Qiu, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
In this system, the BS sends confidential messages to a single communication user (CU), and at the same time wirelessly senses a point target and charges multiple energy receivers (ERs).
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2024 • Beixiong Zheng, Xue Xiong, Tiantian Ma, Jie Tang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, A. Lee Swindlehurst, Rui Zhang
The ever-increasing reliance on wireless communication and sensing has led to growing concerns over the vulnerability of sensitive information to unauthorized detection and interception.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2024 • Hao liu, Jiancheng An, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, George C. Alexandropoulos, Lu Gan
Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) represents an advanced signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2024 • Yilong Chen, Zixiang Ren, Jie Xu, Yong Zeng, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Shuguang Cui
Specifically, a multi-functional base station (BS) can enable multi-functional transmission, by exploiting the same radio signals to perform target/environment sensing, wireless communication, and wireless power transfer (WPT), simultaneously.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2023 • Jun Wu, Weijie Yuan, Zhiqiang Wei, Jinjin Yan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
This paper investigates the bit error rate (BER) minimum pre-coder design for an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS)-based integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, which is considered as a promising technique for enabling future wireless networks.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2023 • Xianxin Song, Xinmin Li, Xiaoqi Qin, Jie Xu, Tony Xiao Han, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Accordingly, we analyze the sensing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance for a target detection scenario and the estimation Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) performance for a target's direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation scenario, in cases where the transmit beamforming at the BS and the reflective beamforming at the IRS are jointly optimized.
1 code implementation • 2 Sep 2023 • Ruihuai Liang, Bo Yang, Zhiwen Yu, Xuelin Cao, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Chau Yuen
To improve the MEC performance, it is required to design an optimal offloading strategy that includes offloading decision (i. e., whether offloading or not) and computational resource allocation of MEC.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2023 • Fuhui Zhou, Rui Ding, Qihui Wu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Kai-Kit Wong, Naofal Al-Dhahir
Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed framework can significantly improve the sum transmission rate of the secondary network compared to various benchmark schemes.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2023 • Bingyan Xie, Yongpeng Wu, Yuxuan Shi, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Wenjun Zhang
Multi-node communication, which refers to the interaction among multiple devices, has attracted lots of attention in many Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2023 • Jiaqi Zou, Songlin Sun, Christos Masouros, Yuanhao Cui, Yafeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
In this paper, we investigate the design of energy-efficient beamforming for an ISAC system, where the transmitted waveform is optimized for joint multi-user communication and target estimation simultaneously.
1 code implementation • 28 Jun 2023 • Wei-Bin Kou, Shuai Wang, Guangxu Zhu, Bin Luo, Yingxian Chen, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Yik-Chung Wu
While federated learning (FL) improves the generalization of end-to-end autonomous driving by model aggregation, the conventional single-hop FL (SFL) suffers from slow convergence rate due to long-range communications among vehicles and cloud server.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2022 • Chang Liu, Shuangyang Li, Weijie Yuan, Xuemeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
This paper investigates the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) transmission for enabling ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC).
no code implementations • 13 Dec 2022 • Nguyen Cong Luong, Quoc-Viet Pham, Thien Huynh-The, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Symeon Chatzinotas
Fourth, we present the design of the DL-based auction for edge resource allocation in SemCom-enabled Metaverse.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2022 • Xichao Sang, Lin Gui, Kai Ying, Xiaqing Diao, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
The channel frequency responses on pilots (CFROPs) of places of interest are used for online mapping with the offline CFROP database.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2022 • Chang Liu, Xuemeng Liu, Zhiqiang Wei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober
With the proposed predictive approach, we can avoid full-scale CSI estimation and facilitate low-dimensional CE for transmit beamforming design such that the signaling overhead is reduced by a scale of $\frac{1}{N}$, where $N$ is the number of IRS elements.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2022 • Chang Liu, Xuemeng Liu, Shuangyang Li, Weijie Yuan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Predictive beamforming design is an essential task in realizing high-mobility integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), which highly depends on the accuracy of the channel prediction (CP), i. e., predicting the angular parameters of users.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2022 • Zhen Gao, Xingyu Zhou, Jingjing Zhao, Juan Li, Chunli Zhu, Chun Hu, Pei Xiao, Symeon Chatzinotas, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Bjorn Ottersten
With the blooming of Internet-of-Things (IoT), we are witnessing an explosion in the number of IoT terminals, triggering an unprecedented demand for ubiquitous wireless access globally.
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2022 • Minghui Wu, Zhen Gao, Yang Huang, Zhenyu Xiao, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Zhaoyang Zhang
Then, to acquire accurate CSI at the BS for the investigated RSMA precoding scheme to achieve higher spectral efficiency, we propose a CSI acquisition network (CAN) with low pilot and feedback signaling overhead, where the downlink pilot transmission, CSI feedback at the user equipments (UEs), and CSI reconstruction at the BS are modeled as an end-to-end neural network based on Transformer.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Anshu Mukherjee, Vaibhav Kumar, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Le-Nam Tran
Security and energy efficiency have become crucial features in the modern-era wireless communication.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2022 • Guoliang Li, Shuai Wang, Kejiang Ye, Miaowen Wen, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Marco Di Renzo
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a paradigm shift, where previously competing wireless transmissions are jointly designed to operate in harmony via the shared use of the hardware platform for improving the spectral and energy efficiencies.
1 code implementation • 4 Aug 2022 • Renjie Xie, Wei Xu, Jiabao Yu, Aiqun Hu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, A. Lee Swindlehurst
Deep learning (DL) applied to a device's radio-frequency fingerprint~(RFF) has attracted significant attention in physical-layer authentication due to its extraordinary classification performance.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2022 • Xiaodan Shao, Lei Cheng, Xiaoming Chen, Chongwen Huang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Then, by associating the data sequences to multiple rank-one tensors and exploiting the angular sparsity of the RIS-BS channel, the detection problem is cast as a high-order coupled tensor decomposition problem without the need of exploiting pilot sequences.
1 code implementation • 3 Jun 2022 • Shuai Wang, Chengyang Li, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Yonina C. Eldar, H. Vincent Poor, Qi Hao, Chengzhong Xu
However, it is challenging to determine the network resources and road sensor placements for multi-stage training with multi-modal datasets in multi-variant scenarios.
no code implementations • 5 May 2022 • Shaokang Hu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Jinhong Yuan
In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated.
no code implementations • 31 Aug 2021 • Shuai Wang, Dachuan Li, Rui Wang, Qi Hao, Yik-Chung Wu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Wireless federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that trains a global parametric model from distributed datasets via wireless communications.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2021 • Chang Liu, Weijie Yuan, Shuangyang Li, Xuemeng Liu, Husheng Li, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Yonghui Li
Specifically, the convolution and LSTM modules are successively adopted in the proposed HCL-Net to exploit the spatial and temporal dependencies of communication channels to further improve the learning performance.
1 code implementation • 10 Aug 2021 • Renjie Xie, Wei Xu, Yanzhi Chen, Jiabao Yu, Aiqun Hu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, A. Lee Swindlehurst
To enable the discrimination of RFF from both known and unknown devices, we propose a new end-to-end deep learning framework for extracting RFFs from raw received signals.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2021 • Shicong Liu, Zhen Gao, Yongpeng Wu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Xiqi Gao, Kai-Kit Wong, Symeon Chatzinotas, Bjorn Ottersten
The rapid development of communication technologies in the past decades has provided immense vertical opportunities for individuals and enterprises.
no code implementations • 7 May 2021 • Weijie Yuan, Zhiqiang Wei, Shuangyang Li, Jinhong Yuan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Benefiting from the OTFS-ISAC signals, the roadside unit (RSU) is capable of simultaneously transmitting downlink information to the vehicles and estimating the sensing parameters of vehicles, e. g., locations and speeds, based on the reflected echoes.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2021 • Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Jiguang He, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Henk Wymeersch, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober, Symeon Chatzinotas, Markku Juntti
In this paper, we provide an overview of a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) architecture, in which only a few elements are active and connected to power amplifiers and radio frequency chains.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2021 • Anwen Liao, Zhen Gao, Dongming Wang, Hua Wang, Hao Yin, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
According to the proposed prior-aided iterative angle estimation algorithm, azimuth/elevation angles can be estimated, and these angles are adopted to achieve precise beam-alignment and refine GTTDU module for further eliminating delay-beam squint.
Information Theory Signal Processing Information Theory
1 code implementation • 28 Jan 2021 • Shuai Wang, Yuncong Hong, Rui Wang, Qi Hao, Yik-Chung Wu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Simulation results show that the proposed UMAirComp framework with PAM algorithm achieves a smaller mean square error of model parameters' estimation, training loss, and test error compared with other benchmark schemes.
no code implementations • 14 Jan 2021 • Zhiqiang Wei, Weijie Yuan, Shuangyang Li, Jinhong Yuan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
OTFS channel estimation is first formulated as a one-dimensional (1D) off-grid sparse signal recovery (SSR) problem based on a virtual sampling grid defined in the DD space, where the on-grid and off-grid components of the delay and Doppler shifts are separated for estimation.
Information Theory Information Theory
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2020 • Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Qiang Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Bo Ai
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently.
Information Theory Signal Processing Information Theory
1 code implementation • 1 Dec 2020 • Chang Liu, Xuemeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Jinhong Yuan
Channel estimation is of great importance in realizing practical intelligent reflecting surface-assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MC) systems.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2020 • Chang Liu, Xuemeng Liu, Zhiqiang Wei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Jinhong Yuan, Ying-Chang Liang
Existing tag signal detection algorithms inevitably suffer from a high bit error rate (BER) due to the difficulties in estimating the channel state information (CSI).
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2020 • Qingqing Wu, Jie Xu, Yong Zeng, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Robert Schober, A. Lee Swindlehurst
On the other hand, providing such communication services simultaneously for both UAV and ground users poses new challenges due to the need for ubiquitous 3D signal coverage as well as the strong air-ground network interference.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2020 • Chang Liu, Weijie Yuan, Zhiqiang Wei, Xuemeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous requirements of different applications.
no code implementations • 11 Sep 2020 • Chang Liu, Zhiqiang Wei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Jinhong Yuan, Ying-Chang Liang
To eliminate the requirement of channel estimation and to improve the system performance, in this paper, we adopt a deep transfer learning (DTL) approach to implicitly extract the features of channel and directly recover tag symbols.
1 code implementation • 3 Sep 2020 • Chang Liu, Xuemeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Jinhong Yuan
To this end, we first develop a versatile DReL-based channel estimation framework where a deep residual network (DRN)-based MMSE estimator is derived in terms of Bayesian philosophy.
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2020 • Maryam Moghimi, Abolfazl Zakeri, Mohammad Reza Javan, Nader Mokari, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Caching phase where the contents are saved in the storage of the BSs, and 2.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Chongjun Ouyang, Sheng Wu, Chunxiao Jiang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Hongwen Yang
To provide system design insights for practical communication systems equipped with the frequency diverse array (FDA), this paper investigates the secrecy performance of FDA systems exploiting finite-alphabet inputs over fluctuating two-ray (FTR) fading channels.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2020 • Xiongfei Zhai, Xihan Chen, Jie Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
It is shown that for the special case with a fully-digital receiver at the AP, the achieved MSE of the massive MIMO AirComp system is inversely proportional to the number of receive antennas.
no code implementations • 24 May 2020 • Shaokang Hu, Zhiqiang Wei, Yuanxin Cai, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Jinhong Yuan
This paper investigates multiuser multi-input single-output (MISO) downlink communications assisted by a self-sustainable intelligent reflection surface (IRS), which can harvest power from the received signals.
no code implementations • 15 May 2020 • Weijie Yuan, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Jinhong Yuan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic
To accurately estimate the motion parameters of vehicles in real-time, we propose a novel message passing algorithm based on factor graph, which yields near optimal solution to the maximum a posteriori estimation.