Search Results for author: Ying-Chang Liang

Found 26 papers, 3 papers with code

Collaborative Computing in Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Multi-Time-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

no code implementations7 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.

Decision Making

Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Optimization in Non-Terrestrial Networks

no code implementations6 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.

Decision Making

Hierarchical Cognitive Spectrum Sharing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks

no code implementations13 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.

Integrated Distributed Semantic Communication and Over-the-air Computation for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

no code implementations8 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.

Channel Estimation and Training Design for Active RIS Aided Wireless Communications

no code implementations6 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.

Deep Learning-Empowered Semantic Communication Systems with a Shared Knowledge Base

no code implementations6 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.

Sentence Sentence Similarity

Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Mobile Edge Computing for 6G Edge Intelligence

no code implementations27 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.

Edge-computing reinforcement-learning +1

Optimization for Master-UAV-powered Auxiliary-Aerial-IRS-assisted IoT Networks: An Option-based Multi-agent Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

no code implementations20 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.

Convolutional Autoencoder-Based Phase Shift Feedback Compression for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Wireless Systems

1 code implementation24 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.

Quantization

Recent Advances on Sub-Nyquist Sampling-Based Wideband Spectrum Sensing

no code implementations7 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.

Semi-Blind Cascaded Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Massive MIMO

no code implementations18 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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Constant-Envelope Wireless Power Transfer

no code implementations7 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.

Fairness Quantization

Deep Transfer Learning-Assisted Signal Detection for Ambient Backscatter Communications

no code implementations10 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).

TAG Transfer Learning

Deep Transfer Learning for Signal Detection in Ambient Backscatter Communications

no code implementations11 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.

TAG Transfer Learning

Toward Smart Security Enhancement of Federated Learning Networks

no code implementations19 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.

Federated Learning

Symbiotic Radio: Cognitive Backscattering Communications for Future Wireless Networks

no code implementations3 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.

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Constant-Envelope Wireless Power Transfer

no code implementations2 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.

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted MIMO Symbiotic Radio Networks

no code implementations2 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.

Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Wireless Networks

2 code implementations27 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

Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Multi-User mmWave MIMO Systems

no code implementations8 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.

Compressive Sensing

Weighted Sum-Rate Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Networks

2 code implementations20 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.

Incentive Design for Efficient Federated Learning in Mobile Networks: A Contract Theory Approach

no code implementations16 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.

Federated Learning

Joint Service Pricing and Cooperative Relay Communication for Federated Learning

no code implementations29 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

Applications of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Communications and Networking: A Survey

no code implementations18 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.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Time Scheduling in RF-Powered Backscatter Cognitive Radio Networks

no code implementations3 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.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +1

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