Covert communications: A comprehensive survey

X Chen, J An, Z Xiong, C Xing, N Zhao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Information security has always been a critical issue in wireless networks. Apart from other
secure techniques, covert communication emerges as a potential solution to security for …

Acquisition of channel state information in heterogeneous cloud radio access networks: Challenges and research directions

G Wang, Q Liu, R He, F Gao… - IEEE Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an emerging system architecture, heterogeneous cloud radio access networks (H-
CRANs) can improve system capacity, enlarge coverage, and enhance energy/spectral …

Ambient backscatter communication systems: Detection and performance analysis

G Wang, F Gao, R Fan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient backscatter technology that utilizes the ambient radio frequency signals to enable
the communications of battery-free devices has attracted much attention recently. In this …

Blind channel estimation for ambient backscatter communication systems

S Ma, G Wang, R Fan… - IEEE Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The availability of perfect channel state information is assumed in current ambient-
backscatter studies. However, the channel estimation problem for ambient backscatter is …

Unified IRS-aided MIMO transceiver designs via majorization theory

S Gong, C Xing, X Zhao, S Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a unified framework for IRS-aided transceiver designs under
general power constraints in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems which implement …

Area spectral efficiency and area energy efficiency of massive MIMO cellular systems

Y Xin, D Wang, J Li, H Zhu, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
cellular systems with pilot contamination. We derive a closed-form approximation of the area …

Integrating communications and control for UAV systems: Opportunities and challenges

J Zhao, F Gao, G Ding, T Zhang, W Jia… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications play an important role in building the
space-air-ground network and realizing the seamless wide-area coverage thanks to its long …

Joint transceiver optimization for IRS-aided MIMO communications

X Zhao, K Xu, S Ma, S Gong, G Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging cost-efficient technology to enhance
communication performance by implementing a large number of passive reflecting elements …

Three-dimensional beamforming for large-scale FD-MIMO systems exploiting statistical channel state information

X Li, S Jin, X Gao, RW Heath - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we provide a practical downlink transmission approach for single-cell full-
dimension multiple-input-multiple-output (FD-MIMO) systems with large-scale uniform planar …

A framework on hybrid MIMO transceiver design based on matrix-monotonic optimization

C Xing, X Zhao, W Xu, X Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid transceiver can strike a balance between complexity and performance of multiple-
input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we develop a unified framework on …