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The next generation networks offers significant potential to advance Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), particularly through the integration of Digital Twins (DTs). However, ensuring the uninterrupted operation of DTs through…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-efficient technique to improve power efficiency and spectral efficiency. However, IRS-aided multi-antenna transmission needs to jointly optimize the passive and active beamforming, imposing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

In this paper, the novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which enables full-space coverage on users located on both sides of the surface, is investigated in the multi-user mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhenrong Liu , Zongze Li , Miaowen Wen , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

In this paper, we develop a unified dynamic intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) beamforming framework to boost the sum computation rate of an IRS-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each device follows a binary offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

The vision of 6G networks aims to enable edge inference by leveraging ubiquitously deployed artificial intelligence (AI) models, facilitating intelligent environmental perception for a wide range of applications. A critical operation in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yang Fu , Peng Qin , Liming Chen , Xianchao Zhang , Yifei Wang

Terahertz (THz) communications have been envisioned as a promising enabler to provide ultra-high data transmission for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. To tackle the blockage vulnerability brought by severe path attenuation and poor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Xinying Ma , Zhi Chen , Longfei Yan , Chong Han , Qiye Wen

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twin (DT) is envisioned to empower various areas as a bridge between physical objects and the digital world. Through virtualization and simulation techniques, multiple functions can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ziru Zhang , Xuling Zhang , Guangzhi Zhu , Yuyang Wang , Pan Hui

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems have shown notable improvements in efficiency, such as reduced latency, higher data rates, and better energy efficiency. However, the resource competition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Yingchao Jiao , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Shuqiang Wang , Dusit Niyato

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to boost the efficiency of wireless energy transfer (WET) systems. However, for a multiuser WET system, simultaneous multi-beam energy transmission is generally required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Xinrong guan , Yuan Wu

In this paper, the adoption of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for multiple single-antenna source terminal (ST)-DT pairs in two-hop networks is investigated. Different from the previous studies on IRS that merely focused on tuning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Yue Xiao , Dusit Niyato

This work investigates the effect of double intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in improving the spectrum efficient of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band. Specifically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Hehao Niu , Zheng Chu , Fuhui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Huan X. Nguyen

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) has been recently proposed as a promising solution to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of future wireless networks by tuning a massive number of low-cost passive reflecting elements and thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) based federated learning (FL) is capable of achieving fast model aggregation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple access channels. However, the model aggregation performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhibin Wang , Jiahang Qiu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Liqun Fu , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Lataief

Digital twin (DT) is the recurrent and common feature in discussions about future technologies, bringing together advanced communication, computation, and artificial intelligence, to name a few. In the context of Industry 4.0, industries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Kunlun Wang , Yongyi Tang , Trung Q. Duong , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Octavia A. Dobre , George K. Karagiannidis

The ever-growing popularity and rapid improving of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised rethinking on the evolution of wireless networks. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a natural platform for AI applications since it is with rich…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shanfeng Huang , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang , Miaowen Wen , Kaibin Huang

In this paper, we study a digital twin (DT)-empowered integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the users perform radar sensing and computation offloading on the same spectrum, while unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Bin Li , Wenshuai Liu , Wancheng Xie , Ning Zhang , Yan Zhang

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technique to extend the wireless coverage. In this letter, the performance of hybrid automatic repeat request (hybrid-ARQ) for an IRS-assisted system is analyzed. More specifically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Y. Ai , M. Mohamed , L. Kong , A. Al-Samen , M. Cheffena

Considering the user mobility and unpredictable mobile edge computing (MEC) environments, this paper studies the intelligent task offloading problem in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled MEC with the assistance of digital twin (DT). We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Bin Li , Yufeng Liu , Ling Tan , Heng Pan , Yan Zhang

Low-cost passive intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently been envisioned as a revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment through carefully tuning reflection elements. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst