no code implementations • 25 Feb 2025 • Mu Jia, Junting Chen, Ying-Chang Liang, Pooi-Yuen Kam
In the low SNR regime, we rigorously prove that the energy detector emerges as the Bayesian-optimal solution, thereby establishing its theoretical validity for the first time.
no code implementations • 3 Jan 2025 • Jingyuan Liu, Zheng Chang, Ying-Chang Liang
Our analysis further reveals that both the number of selected devices and the signal aggregation errors significantly influence the convergence upper bound.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2024 • Jieni Zhang, Yong Zeng, Xiangbin Yu, Shi Jin, Jinhong Yuan, Ying-Chang Liang, Rui Zhang
For millimeter wave (mmWave) or Terahertz (THz) communications, by leveraging the high spatial resolution offered by large antenna arrays and the multi-path sparsity of mmWave/THz channels, a novel inter-symbol interference (ISI) mitigation technique called delay alignment modulation (DAM) has been recently proposed.
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2024 • Yang Cao, Shao-Yu Lien, Ying-Chang Liang, Dusit Niyato, Xuemin, Shen
To address the above challenges, in this paper, a multi-time-scale deep reinforcement learning (DRL) scheme is developed for achieving the radio resource optimization in NTNs, in which the LEO satellite and user equipment (UE) collaborate with each other to perform individual decision-making tasks with different control cycles.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Yang Cao, Shao-Yu Lien, Ying-Chang Liang, Dusit Niyato, Xuemin, Shen
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) with low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites have been regarded as promising remedies to support global ubiquitous wireless services.
no code implementations • 13 Dec 2023 • Zizhen Zhou, Qianqian Zhang, Jungang Ge, Ying-Chang Liang
Besides, considering that the aerial network has a higher priority than the terrestrial network, we aim to use a rate constraint to ensure the performance of the aerial network.
no code implementations • 8 Nov 2023 • Peng Yi, Yang Cao, Xin Kang, Ying-Chang Liang
Extensive simulations verify the superiority of ICC-CSS compared with various conventional CSS schemes in terms of detection performance, robustness to SNR variations in both sensing and reporting channels, as well as scalability with respect to the number of samples and sensors.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2023 • Hao Chen, Nanxi Li, Ruizhe Long, Ying-Chang Liang
To address this issue, we further investigate this ARIS-specific channel estimation problem and propose a least-square (LS) based channel estimator, whose performance can be further improved with the design on ARIS reflection patterns at the channel training phase.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2023 • Peng Yi, Yang Cao, Xin Kang, Ying-Chang Liang
With the aid of the shared knowledge base, the proposed system integrates the message and corresponding knowledge from the shared knowledge base to obtain the residual information, which enables the system to transmit fewer symbols without semantic performance degradation.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2022 • Peng Wei, Kun Guo, Ye Li, Jue Wang, Wei Feng, Shi Jin, Ning Ge, Ying-Chang Liang
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered a novel paradigm for computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks in fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2021 • Jingren Xu, Xin Kang, Ronghaixiang Zhang, Ying-Chang Liang, Sumei Sun
This paper investigates a master unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network, in which we propose using a rechargeable auxiliary UAV (AUAV) equipped with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the communication signals from the MUAV and also leverage the MUAV as a recharging power source.
1 code implementation • 24 Oct 2021 • Xianhua Yu, Dong Li, Yongjun Xu, Ying-Chang Liang
To this end, it is crucial to adjust the phases of reflecting elements of the IRS, and most of the research works focus on how to optimize/quantize the phase for different optimization objectives.
no code implementations • 7 May 2021 • Jun Fang, Bin Wang, Hongbin Li, Ying-Chang Liang
Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising technology enabling efficient utilization of the spectrum resource for future wireless systems.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2021 • Zhen-Qing He, Hang Liu, Xiaojun Yuan, Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, Ying-Chang Liang
In a RIS-aided MIMO system, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is important for achieving passive beamforming gains of the RIS, but is also challenging due to the cascaded property of the transmitter-RIS-receiver channel and the lack of signal processing capability of the passive RIS elements.
Bayesian Inference
Information Theory
Information Theory
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2020 • Huiyuan Yang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jun Fang, Ying-Chang Liang
By reconfiguring the propagation environment of electromagnetic waves artificially, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been regarded as a promising and revolutionary hardware technology to improve the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless networks.
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 • 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.
no code implementations • 19 Aug 2020 • Junjie Tan, Ying-Chang Liang, Nguyen Cong Luong, Dusit Niyato
In this way, the EDs in FLNs can keep training data locally, which preserves privacy and reduces communication overheads.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2020 • Ying-Chang Liang, Qianqian Zhang, Erik G. Larsson, Geoffrey Ye Li
To exploit the full potential of SR, in this paper, we address three fundamental tasks in SR: (1) enhancing the backscattering link via active load; (2) achieving highly reliable communications through joint decoding; and (3) capturing PTx's RF signals using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2020 • Huiyuan Yang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jun Fang, Ying-Chang Liang
By reconfiguring the propagation environment of electromagnetic waves artificially, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been regarded as a promising and revolutionary hardware technology to improve the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless networks.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2020 • Qianqian Zhang, Ying-Chang Liang, H. Vincent Poor
In this paper, a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) symbiotic radio (SR) system is proposed, in which an RIS, operating as a secondary transmitter (STx), sends messages to a multi-antenna secondary receiver (SRx) by using cognitive backscattering communication, and simultaneously, it enhances the primary transmission from a multi-antenna primary transmitter (PTx) to a multi-antenna primary receiver (PRx) by intelligently reconfiguring the wireless environment.
2 code implementations • 27 Dec 2019 • Huayan Guo, Ying-Chang Liang, Jie Chen, Erik G. Larsson
Our objective is to maximize the weighted sum-rate (WSR) of all users by joint designing the beamforming at the access point (AP) and the phase vector of the RIS elements, while both the perfect channel state information (CSI) setup and the imperfect CSI setup are investigated.
Signal Processing
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2019 • Jie Chen, Ying-Chang Liang, Hei Victor Cheng, Wei Yu
Specifically, we propose a novel channel estimation protocol for the above system to estimate the cascaded channels, which are the products of the channels from the base station (BS) to the RIS and from the RIS to the users.
2 code implementations • 20 May 2019 • Huayan Guo, Ying-Chang Liang, Jie Chen, Erik G. Larsson
In addition, we consider a practical IRS assumption, in which the passive elements can only shift the incident signal to discrete phase levels.
no code implementations • 16 May 2019 • Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, Han Yu, Ying-Chang Liang, Dong In Kim
To strengthen data privacy and security, federated learning as an emerging machine learning technique is proposed to enable large-scale nodes, e. g., mobile devices, to distributedly train and globally share models without revealing their local data.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2018 • Shaohan Feng, Dusit Niyato, Ping Wang, Dong In Kim, Ying-Chang Liang
However, the learning process of the existing federated learning platforms rely on the direct communication between the model owner, e. g., central cloud or edge server, and the mobile devices for transferring the model update.
Cryptography and Security Computer Science and Game Theory
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2018 • Nguyen Cong Luong, Dinh Thai Hoang, Shimin Gong, Dusit Niyato, Ping Wang, Ying-Chang Liang, Dong In Kim
Reinforcement learning has been efficiently used to enable the network entities to obtain the optimal policy including, e. g., decisions or actions, given their states when the state and action spaces are small.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2018 • Tran The Anh, Nguyen Cong Luong, Dusit Niyato, Ying-Chang Liang, Dong In Kim
To coordinate the transmission of multiple secondary transmitters, the secondary gateway needs to schedule the backscattering time, energy harvesting time, and transmission time among them.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2017 • Zhiyuan Zha, Xin Yuan, Bei Li, Xinggan Zhang, Xin Liu, Lan Tang, Ying-Chang Liang
However, it still lacks a sound mathematical explanation on why WNNM is more feasible than NNM.