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Jian Chen 0008
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Computer networks · 36 · 10 first-author · 30 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 7 · 7 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 2 · 2 since 2021Security and privacy · 2 · 2 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
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| 2026 | Dynamic reliable SFC orchestration for SDN-NFV enabled networks
Hui Su, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Comput. Networks | 3 |
| 2026 | Reliable image transmission by boosting multiple weak semantic communications
Jie Jia 0001, Yidi Chou, Jian Chen 0008, Yansha Deng, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 3 |
| 2026 | A hierarchical 5G-TSN integrated architecture with load-balancing oriented resource allocation
Hui Su, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang |
J. Netw. Comput. Appl. | 4 |
| 2026 | Stability-Oriented Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Stochastic NOMA-MEC NetworksabstractMulti-access edge computing (MEC) enhances users’ computing capabilities. However, it still faces the queue instability challenge due to the conflict between limited communication-computation resources and the massive access of users. In this paper, we invoke a multiple one-to-one queuing system in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-MEC network, where NOMA enables massive access, and study its network stability and queuing delay control mechanisms. Meanwhile, we jointly consider the many-to-one queuing system. We formulate two network power minimization stochastic problems, each subject to the stability of the multiple one-to-one/many-to-one queuing system. We propose Lyapunov-based algorithms to solve these problems analytically and achieve a computational complexity of approximatelyO(N)withNusers. We further investigate the queuing-delay control mechanism in the multiple one-to-one queuing system-based NOMA-MEC network. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms converge efficiently, effectively stabilize queuing systems, satisfy the queuing-delay requirement, and further demonstrate that: 1) the proposed multiple one-to-one queuing system-based NOMA-MEC exhibits a better balanced load distribution between users and the MEC server compared to orthogonal multiple access (OMA)-MEC; 2) we obtain a more efficient tradeoff between network power consumption and queue backlog compared to the many-to-one queuing system; and 3) we obtain superior queue stabilization capacity under bursty data and network power suppression conditions. This also validates NOMA’s high spectral efficiency and fine-grained remote execution control at the MEC server. Baoxin Yin, Jie Jia 0001, Yansha Deng, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001, Hamid Aghvami |
IEEE Trans. Netw. | 4 |
| 2026 | FLISC$^{3}$3: Federated Learning-Oriented Resource Optimization in ISCC-Enabled Edge Collaborative NetworksabstractFederated edge learning (FEEL) greatly facilitates the development of ubiquitous intelligence by combining federated learning and edge computing. However, traditional FEEL implementations assume fixed-sized local datasets, neglecting the potential of edge devices to acquire sensory information actively. Such a simplistic scenario leads to overestimating data availability and underestimating resource utilization in networks with varying resource capacity. Moreover, the existing FEEL-oriented systems with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) have separate-based designs, leading to an inefficient use of wireless resources. To alleviate these issues, we propose a novel FEEL-oriented ISCC framework in edge collaborative networks, by leveraging the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique to achieve the dual purpose of data sensing and parameter transmission. Then, over the designed framework, we present FEEL convergence analysis under non-independent and identically distributed (non-iid) and iid data. Correspondingly, we formulate a joint beamforming and flexible time duration optimization problem to maximize the convergence speed of FEEL, subject to limited resources on the devices and requirements for data sensing and communication. To address the problem efficiently, we propose an alternative optimization framework, in which the successive convex approximation (SCA) method is adopted to solve the nonconvex beamforming design subproblem, and a low-complexity method is derived for optimal time allocation. Extensive results reveal that the proposed framework can achieve excellent performance in model training accuracy by efficiently utilizing limited resources in edge collaborative networks, under iid and non-iid data. An Du, Jie Jia 0001, Schahram Dustdar, Andrea Morichetta 0002, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput. | 5 |
| 2025 | MixLoc: Universal Magnetic Indoor Localization via Mixed-Frequency Data Representation LearningabstractUsing ambient magnetic for indoor localization has been a research focus in recent years. However, intricate magnetic feature patterns in complicated indoor ambiance, with particular emphasis on the multi-scale dynamics arising from diverse user motion states, further hinder localization accuracy and universality. To address these challenges, this paper originally proposes a novel mixed-frequency magnetic data representation learning-based framework (MixLoc) for accurate and universal localization. Our core idea is to systematically model the multi-scale dynamics-affected pedestrian indoor localization as a location-semantic learning problem based on mixed-frequency magnetic data. First, we propose a data augmentation method to automatically construct a mixed-frequency magnetic dataset. Then, we propose a novel encoder to learn temporal and spatial representations from these data and extract subtle differences among multi-scale sequences. Finally, a novel localization model is proposed to accurately infer locations by capturing significant global and local features from both temporal and spatial representations. The evaluation results based on comprehensive experiments show that the accuracy of MixLoc increases about 42% compared to other state-of-the-art approaches. Qinghu Wang, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Yansha Deng, Xingwei Wang 0001, Hamid Aghvami |
ICPADS | 3 |
| 2025 | Generative diffusion model-based QMIX for joint task offloading and resource allocation in VEC systems
Liang Guo 0018, Chen-Khong Tham, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Comput. Networks | 4 |
| 2025 | Joint resource allocation and blocklength assignment in STAR-RIS and NOMA-assisted URLLC systems
Jian Chen 0008, Jie Jia 0001, Liang Guo 0018, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Comput. Networks | 2 |
| 2025 | Secure Resource Allocation and Trajectory Design for RIS and NOMA Assisted Multi-UAV SystemsabstractUnmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications show great potential in providing simultaneous service to various users. This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided UAV-swarm NOMA system, where the Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) technique is employed to manage inter-cell interference for all users. The primary objective is to maximize the overall security rate by jointly optimizing the UAV swarm trajectories, power distribution among the UAVs, and the reflection coefficients of the RIS. To address the non-convex nature and interdependence of this optimization problem while accommodating long-term dynamic requirements, we introduce an optimization framework that combines alternating optimization (AO) with the weighted-QMIX algorithm. Specifically, successive convex optimization (SCA) is utilized within the AO method to determine the optimal power allocation and RIS coefficients. Meanwhile, the weighted-QMIX algorithm conducts online trajectory optimization for all UAVs through a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning process. Numerical results demonstrate that: 1) the proposed method achieves a higher communication security rate compared to systems lacking RIS, NOMA, or stationary UAVs; and 2) the proposed algorithm outperforms a pure deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm in terms of both computational complexity and security performance. Jian Chen 0008, Kaiqi Zheng, Jie Jia 0001, Yansha Deng, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Internet Things J. | 1 |
| 2025 | Joint scheduling and routing for end-to-end deterministic transmission in TSN
Jie Jia 0001, Yiyue Zhang, Jian Chen 0008, An Du, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Peer Peer Netw. Appl. | 4 |
| 2025 | End-to-end supervised learning for NOMA-enabled resource allocation: A dynamic and scalable approach
Leyou Yang, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Baoxin Yin, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Peer Peer Netw. Appl. | 3 |
| 2025 | Delay-Aware Resource Allocation for RIS Assisted Semi-Grant-Free NOMA SystemsabstractA reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted semi-grant-free (SGF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is investigated. Unlike existing works that only focus on short-term resource allocation, we study a long-term power-saving optimization problem under queue stability constraints and utilize Lyapunov stability theory to deal with delay-aware resource allocation. We first transform the long-term problem into a series of per-time-slot problems by exploiting the Lyapunov theory. Then, the objective function is minimized by alternatingly optimizing the power allocation, channel assignment, and RIS reflection coefficients. In particular, the channel assignment subproblem is solved by invoking a many-to-one matching algorithm. The power allocation sub-problem is addressed by the developed fractional programming algorithm. The reflection coefficients design sub-problem is solved by a penalty-based method, which tackles the rank one constraint and optimizes reflection coefficients. The numerical results validate the effectiveness and show that it can achieve queue stability by setting the Lyapunov parameters. It also shows that the proposed RIS-assisted SGF NOMA system outperforms without RIS and random RIS phase-shift baselines. Jie Jia 0001, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Commun. | 5 |
| 2025 | Online Service Placement, Task Scheduling, and Resource Allocation in Hierarchical Collaborative MEC SystemsabstractMobile edge computing (MEC) pushes cloud computing capabilities to the network edge, which provides real-time processing and caching flexibility for service-based applications. Conventionally, the individual node solution is insufficient to tackle the increasing computation workload and provide diverse services, especially for unpredictable spatiotemporal service request patterns. To address this, we first propose a hierarchical collaborative computing (HCC) framework to serve users’ demands by reaping sufficient computing capability in Cloud, ubiquitous service area in edge layer, and idle resources in device layer. To better unleash the benefits of HCC and pursue long-term performance, we investigate heterogeneity-aware resource management by collaborative service placement, task scheduling, and resource allocation both in-node and cross-node. We then propose an online optimization framework that first decouples the decisions across different slots. For each instant mixed integer non-linear programming problem, we introduce the surrogate Lagrangian relaxation method to reduce complexity and design hybrid numerical techniques to solve the subproblems. Theoretical analysis and extensive simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the HCC framework in decreasing system cost on devices, and our proposed algorithms can effectively utilize the resources in the collaborative space to achieve the trade-off between system cost minimization and service placement cost stability. An Du, Jie Jia 0001, Schahram Dustdar, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput. | 4 |
| 2025 | Hybrid Reinforcement Learning for Joint Beamforming in STAR-RIS-Assisted CoMP SystemsabstractThe simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) can provide a fullcoverage agile radio environment. A unique STAR-RIS-assisted coordinated multi-point (CoMP) framework is investigated in this paper, where cell-center and cell-edge users are embellished by the reflection and transmission features of the STAR-RIS. Unlike previous works controlling the transmission and reflection phase-shift independently, we consider a more practical coupled phase-shift model. We formulate an online active and passive beamforming problem to maximize long-term energy efficiency (EE) with time-varying locations and channels. Moreover, we propose a hybrid learning framework combining model-free and model-based optimization techniques. For the model-free method, we invoke a risk-sensitive multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm to accelerate the online optimization of the passive beamforming of all STAR-RISs. For the model-based method, we invoke fractional programming (FP) to optimize the coordinated zero-forcing beamformer among all base stations and to realize an exact reward evaluation for each action in the DRL algorithm. Compared to DRL algorithms that optimize passive and active beamforming together, we dramatically shrink the action and state spaces. Comprehensive numerical results explain that the STAR-RIS enhanced CoMP system accomplishes a more excellent EE than the benchmark STAR-RIS cases and that without STAR-RIS. Jian Chen 0008, Yixuan Zou, Yuanwei Liu, Jie Jia 0001, Ziye Ma, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 1 |
| 2025 | Joint Secure and Covert Communications for Active STAR-RIS Assisted ISAC SystemsabstractThis paper investigates the design of jointly supporting physical layer security (PLS) and covert communications (CCs) in an active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (a-STAR-RIS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Due to the unified waveform design of ISAC signals, we consider a challenging scenario with two targets being suspicious attackers, where one warden target potentially detects the confidential transmission behavior of covert users and another eavesdropper target attempts to intercept the broadcasted confidential information of security users. We investigate the joint beamforming design at the base station (BS) and the a-STAR-RIS to achieve a high-quality sensing beampattern while meeting covertness and security communication requirements. (1) For the ideal scenario with perfect channel state information (CSI) and precise target locations, we propose an alternative optimization (AO) method to address the optimization problem involving highly coupled variables. Specifically, the optimal beamforming design at the BS is handled using the semi-definite relaxation (SDR) technique, while the beamforming design at the a-STAR-RIS is addressed through a penalty-based iterative algorithm. (2) A more practical case with uncertain target locations and imperfect CSI is considered to achieve a robust beamforming design, where the non-deterministic outage probability constraints are effectively transformed by employing the Bernstein-type inequality. Numerical results demonstrate the superiority of the a-STAR-RIS over the baseline cases and certify that the proposed algorithms can effectively balance the tradeoff among the sensing quality, covert and secure communication requirements. Besides, results also show that the proposed robust beamforming scheme can construct adequate sensing beampattern, even with imperfect CSI and uncertain target locations. Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 5 |
| 2024 | Hybrid Beamforming Design for Near-Field SWIPT NetworksabstractA near-field simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated, where the hybrid beamforming architecture is employed at the base station to send the information beams for information transmission while charging energy harvesting users. A transmit power minimization problem is formulated by jointly optimizing the analog beamformer and the baseband digital beamformers. To tackle the non-convex optimization problem, a penalty-based two-layer (PTL) algorithm is proposed to optimize the analog beamformer and baseband digital information beamformers. By employing the block coordinate descent method, the optimal analog beamformer, and baseband digital information beamformers are obtained in the closed-form expressions. Moreover, a low-complexity two-stage algorithm to reduce the high computational complexity caused by the large number of antennas is proposed. Numerical results illustrate that: 1) the proposed PTL algorithm can achieve near-optimal performance; and 2) in contrast to the far-field SWIPT, a single near-field beamformer can focus the energy on multiple locations. Zheng Zhang 0037, Yuanwei Liu, Zhaolin Wang 0001, Xidong Mu, Jian Chen 0008 |
ICC | 5 |
| 2024 | Online two-timescale service placement for time-sensitive applications in MEC-assisted network: A TMAGRL approach
An Du, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Liang Guo 0018, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Comput. Networks | 3 |
| 2024 | DarLoc: Deep learning and data-feature augmentation based robust magnetic indoor localization
Qinghu Wang, Jie Jia 0001, Yansha Deng, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001, Min Huang 0001, Hamid Aghvami |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 4 |
| 2024 | Robust indoor localization based on multi-modal information fusion and multi-scale sequential feature extraction
Qinghu Wang, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Yansha Deng, Xingwei Wang 0001, Hamid Aghvami |
Future Gener. Comput. Syst. | 3 |
| 2024 | Joint power allocation and blocklength assignment for reliability optimization in CA-enabled HetNets
Leyou Yang, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Peer Peer Netw. Appl. | 3 |
| 2024 | DE-based resource allocation for D2D-assisted NOMA systems
Jie Jia 0001, Quanzhen Tian, An Du, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Soft Comput. | 4 |
| 2024 | CoMP and RIS-Assisted Multicast Transmission in a Multi-UAV Communication SystemabstractUnmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communications have been regarded as an effective solution to provide instant services. This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multi-UAV system, where ground users are formed as multicast groups and served by multiple UAVs with coordinated multi-point technique. The goal is to maximize the sum of the minimum rates for all groups by jointly optimizing the trajectories, the cooperative beamforming of the clustered UAVs, and the passive beamforming of the RIS. A hybrid learning scheme is proposed, integrating a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm, RES-QMIX, and a majorization-minimization (MM)-based alternating optimization. First, the RES-QMIX algorithm is proposed to optimize the trajectories of all UAVs. Then, the alternating optimization is invoked to decouple the joint beamforming into two sub-problems, and each is transformed into a convex quadratic cone programming problem with the MM algorithm. Moreover, the alternating optimization is employed to estimate the reward of the action in RES-QMIX algorithm, thus reducing the action space and achieving the joint optimization. Numerical results show that: 1) The proposed hybrid learning framework achieves fast convergence and outperforms heuristic algorithms; 2) The proposed system obtains a more significant communication rate than CoMP and RIS-only systems. Jian Chen 0008, Kaili Zhai, Zhaolin Wang 0001, Yuanwei Liu, Jie Jia 0001, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Commun. | 1 |
| 2024 | Secure Communication Optimization in NOMA Systems With UAV-Mounted STAR-RISabstractSimultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), as a revolutionary technique, can boost transmission security by controlling unfavorable environments for signal eavesdropping and reducing interference. Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with STAR-RISs has generated considerable interest due to its enhanced deployment flexibility. However, developing secure communication capabilities using flying STAR-RIS remains an open issue. Therefore, this work investigates the secrecy energy efficiency (SEE) maximization problem for the uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, where the UAV-mounted STAR-RIS is employed against the eavesdroppers. Specifically, we consider the joint optimization of the power control, the transmission/reflection coefficients, and the UAV/STAR-RIS’s placement for static and mobile scenarios. The problems are also subject to the minimum data rate requirements and the safety flight region. To tackle the intractable problems, we first adopt the iterative-based method to solve the problem under the static scenario. After that, we invoke the fractional programming and successive convex approximation methods to get the power control scheme, the semidefinite relaxation method to get the transmission/reflection (T/R) coefficients design, and the search-based method to obtain the UAV/STAR-RIS position. Extending to the mobile scenario, we adopt the double deep Q-network (DDQN) algorithm to learn the online UAV trajectory design policy from a long-term perspective. Numerical results unveil that: 1) the proposed iterative-based joint optimization algorithm for static scenarios achieves a near-optimal solution; 2) the NOMA communications aided by the UAV-mounted STAR-RIS achieve significant SEE gain over the conventional reflection-only RIS and the fixed STAR-RIS cases; 3) the DDQN-based algorithm for mobile scenario achieves a near-optimal solution and obtains a valuable performance gain over the short-sighted greedy algorithm. Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 3 |
| 2024 | Secure Beamforming and Radar Association in CoMP-NOMA Empowered Integrated Sensing and Communication SystemsabstractIntegrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been regarded as an emerging technique to satisfy the sensing requirements for future 6G networks. However, the confidential communication information embedded in the probing waveform could be eavesdropped by the radar targets, which leads to insecurity issues for ISAC systems. To this end, we propose a coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) empowered secure ISAC system. Unlike existing work focusing on a single base station (BS), multiple BSs are coordinated to improve sensing performance and communication security. Specifically, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is employed to improve spectrum efficiency and facilitate spectrum sharing between sensing and communication functions. By importing the artificial noise (AN) to disrupt eavesdropper reception, a joint radar association and beamforming design optimization problem is formulated to maximize the minimum beampattern gain, subject to the maximum power constraint and secure communication requirements. The mixed-integer non-convex optimization problem is first transformed into more tractable forms. Then, a near-optimal solution is obtained by applying an accelerated stochastic coordinate descent algorithm for radar association and the penalty-based iterative algorithm for beamforming design. Moreover, the optimization problem is further extended to more practical cases with uncertain target directions. Our numerical results show: i) the proposed AN-aided COMP-NOMA empowered ISAC system can support much higher high-quality radar sensing, while simultaneously guaranteeing secure communication; ii) the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the relevant benchmark schemes in terms of the beampattern gain; iii) the proposed joint optimization algorithm can achieve high beampattern gain, even with uncertain target directions. Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 3 |
| 2024 | Compressive sensing based indoor localization fingerprint collection and construction
Jie Jia 0001, Haowen Guan, Jian Chen 0008, Leyou Yang, An Du, Xingwei Wang 0016 |
Wirel. Networks | 3 |
| 2024 | Online delay optimization for MEC and RIS-assisted wireless VR networks
Jie Jia 0001, Leyou Yang, Jian Chen 0008, Lidao Ma, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Wirel. Networks | 3 |
| 2023 | Multi-objective oriented resource allocation in reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted HCNs
Jian Chen 0008, Sujie Wang, Jie Jia 0001, Qinghu Wang, Leyou Yang, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Ad Hoc Networks | 1 |
| 2023 | Resource allocation for multiple RISs assisted NOMA empowered D2D communication: A MAMP-DQN approach
Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Yixuan Zou, Jian Chen 0008, Leyou Yang, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Ad Hoc Networks | 4 |
| 2023 | Reinforcement learning based joint trajectory design and resource allocation for RIS-aided UAV multicast networks
Pengshuo Ji, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Liang Guo 0018, An Du, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Comput. Networks | 3 |
| 2023 | Deep reinforcement learning empowered joint mode selection and resource allocation for RIS-aided D2D communications
Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, An Du, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Neural Comput. Appl. | 3 |
| 2023 | Online resource allocation for QoE optimization in CoMP-assisted eMBMS system
Jian Chen 0008, Kaili Zhai, Jie Jia 0001, An Du, Xingwei Wang 0016 |
Peer Peer Netw. Appl. | 1 |
| 2022 | DRL-based Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for STAR-RIS Assisted Coordinated Multi-cell NetworksabstractA novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) assisted collabo-rative multi-cell network is proposed. Cell-center and cell-edge users are enhanced by the STAR-RIS's reflection and transmission functions, respectively. We propose an online joint active and passive beamforming framework to maximize this system's long-term energy efficiency (EE) under time-varying channels and users' requirements. We first invoke fractional programming (FP) to optimize the coordinated zero-forcing beamforming among all base stations and to construct an interference-free transmission during each time slot. Then, a parallel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm is proposed to facilitate the online optimization of the passive beamforming of all STAR-RISs. Finally, the beamforming calculated by the FP algorithm is utilized as a part of the reward function of the DRL. As a result, the size of the action and state space is reduced, and the dynamic joint optimization is realized. Extensive numerical results reveal that: 1) the proposed algorithm induces a low computation complexity compared with conventional DRL algorithms, and 2) the STAR-RIS enhanced system can achieve higher EE than systems without RIS or with conventional reflection/transmission-only RISs. Jian Chen 0008, Ziye Ma, Yixuan Zou, Jie Jia 0001, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
GLOBECOM | 1 |
| 2022 | Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in STAR-RIS assisted NOMA SystemabstractIn this paper, the joint task offloading and resource allocation are investigated for the semi-grant-free (SGF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system. Moreover, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) are deployed to improve the quality of wireless communications under the mode switching protocol. Each MU can partially or fully offload its task to the base station (BS) based on its differentiated channel conditions and computing capacity in the proposed MEC system. We formulate the joint task offloading, channel assignment, power allocation, and the RIS coefficients design problem to save energy consumption. The formulated problem is modeled from a long-term optimization perspective as a multi-agent Markov game (MG). Then, a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) based joint task offloading and resource allocation (JTORA) algorithm is proposed to solve the problem. The simulation results confirm that the applied SGF-NOMA scheme can significantly reduce energy consumption under a stringent latency constraint. Moreover, the effectiveness of the STAR-RIS and the proposed algorithm are confirmed. Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, An Du, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
VTC Fall | 3 |
| 2022 | Cooperative MARL for Resource Allocation in High Mobility NGMA-enabled HetNetsabstractThe problem of resource allocation in a high mobility network is always meaningful while challenging. Due to the mobility characteristic, the main difficulty lies in solving different optimization problems in a limited time, so traditional time-consuming optimization solvers are no longer applicable. This paper considers NGMA-enabled heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and uses end-to-end multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to optimize the resource allocation problem. Even though MARL can use many cooperative agents to divide action space, it may lead to a significant increase in agent number, which is harmful to credit assignment. To tackle this problem, we employ a unique design that can fix the number of agents in any case. Agent credit assignment is then considered to guide agents to work cooperatively and ensure each efficient action gets a suitable reward. Also, a novel learning process named Learn to Improve is utilized to make our method more general. Numerical results and comparison experiments show the effectiveness and robustness of our methods. Leyou Yang, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
VTC Fall | 3 |
| 2022 | Joint optimization for RIS-assisted multicast D2D communications
Pengshuo Ji, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Yunhe Xie, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Comput. Networks | 3 |
| 2022 | Resource Allocation for IRS Assisted SGF NOMA Transmission: A MADRL ApproachabstractNon-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted semi-grant-free (SGF) transmission has been viewed as one of the promising technologies to meet massive connectivity requirements of the next-generation networks. A novel intelligent reconfigurable surface (IRS) assisted SGF NOMA transmission system is proposed, where the IRS is employed to satisfy the channel gain requirements for grant-based users (GBUs) and grant-free users (GFUs). The dynamic optimization on the sub-carrier assignment and power allocation for roaming GFUs, and the amplitude control and phase shift design for reflecting elements of the IRS, is formulated. Aiming at maximizing the long-term data rate of all GFUs, the optimization problem is first modeled as a multi-agent Markov decision problem. Then, three multi-agent deep reinforcement learning based frameworks are proposed to solve the problem under three different IRS cases, including the ideal IRS, non-ideal IRS with continuous phase shifts, and non-ideal IRS with discrete phase shifts. Specifically, for each GFU agent, a sub-carrier assignment deep Q-network (DQN) and a power allocation deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) are integrated to dynamically assign network resources for each GFU. For the only IRS agent, two DDPGs are integrated to dynamically assign phase shift and amplitude for each reflecting element of ideal IRS. The single DDPG for dynamically assigning continuous phase shifts, and parallel DQNs for dynamically assigning discrete phase shifts for non-ideal IRS with fixed amplitude are also proposed. Simulation results demonstrate that: 1) The network sum rates of all GFUs can achieve a significant improvement with the aid of IRS, comparing with the system without IRS. 2) The network sum rates of the NOMA assisted SGF transmissions are superior to that of OMA assisted GF transmissions. Jian Chen 0008, Liang Guo 0018, Jie Jia 0001, Jianhui Shang, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. | 1 |
| 2022 | Distributed localization for IoT with multi-agent reinforcement learning
Jie Jia 0001, Ruoying Yu, Zhenjun Du, Jian Chen 0008, Qinghu Wang, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Neural Comput. Appl. | 4 |
| 2022 | Joint resource allocation for QoE optimization in large-scale NOMA-enabled multi-cell networks
Jie Jia 0001, Zhenjun Du, Jian Chen 0008, Qinghu Wang, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. | 4 |
| 2022 | Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for IRS Assisted CoMP SystemsabstractA novel intelligent reconfigurable surface (IRS) assisted coordinated multi-point (CoMP) system is proposed. Our objective is to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of this system by jointly optimizing base station (BS) clustering, user association, sub-carrier assignment, power allocation, and optimal design of the IRS, while satisfying the users’ quality of service requirements. Considering the amplitude and phase shift characteristics, both ideal and non-ideal IRS are investigated. The formulated problem is proved to be NP-hard. By analyzing its structure, we decouple it into the power allocation sub-problem, the BS clustering, UE association, and sub-carrier assignment sub-problem, and the reflection coefficients design sub-problem. For the power allocation sub-problem, we invoke the fractional programming to find the optimal solution. For the reflection coefficients design sub-problem of ideal IRS, the optimal solution is derived with the Lagrangian dual method. Whereas quantization-based method is employed to find the discrete phase shifts for non-ideal IRS. We finally propose a genetic algorithm (GA) to represent the potential solutions of sub-carrier assignment, and combine the other two optimization algorithms as fitness estimator in GA. Numerical results validate the feasibility, fast convergence, and the flexibility of the proposed algorithm. It shows that the proposed scheme outperform the system without IRS and that with a random initialized IRS. Jian Chen 0008, Yunhe Xie, Xidong Mu, Jie Jia 0001, Yuanwei Liu, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. | 1 |
| 2022 | Access probability optimization for streaming media transmission in heterogeneous cellular networks
Jie Jia 0001, Linjiao Xia, Pengshuo Ji, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Wirel. Networks | 4 |
| 2021 | Indoor Localization Fusing WiFi With Smartphone Inertial Sensors Using LSTM NetworksabstractSmartphone-based indoor localization has attracted considerable attentions in both research and industrial areas. However, the localization accuracy and robustness are still challenging problems due to low-cost noisy devices, especially in those complicated localization environments. Considering that pedestrian dead-reckoning (PDR) devices are widely equipped in recent smartphones, we propose a novel indoor localization fusing algorithm that integrates both wireless fidelity (WiFi) features and PDR features. By formulating the fusing indoor localization as a recursive function approximation problem, a sliding-window-based displacement scheme is designed to generate a time-series-based feature data set. We further apply the long short-term memory (LSTM) network for data fusion and localization on this data set by taking advantage of its benefits in time-series prediction and characterization. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we compare it with state-of-the-art filter-based localization algorithms in three typical movements and three postures of holding smartphones. Extensive experiment results demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed algorithm in indoor localization, even in some extreme environments. Mingyang Zhang 0009, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Yansha Deng, Xingwei Wang 0001, Hamid Aghvami |
IEEE Internet Things J. | 3 |
| 2021 | Reliability optimization for industrial WSNs with FD relays and multiple parallel connections
Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Yansha Deng, Xingwei Wang 0001, Hamid Aghvami |
J. Netw. Comput. Appl. | 2 |
| 2021 | Online reliability optimization for URLLC in HetNets: a DQN approach
Leyou Yang, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Neural Comput. Appl. | 3 |
| 2021 | Real-time indoor localization using smartphone magnetic with LSTM networks
Mingyang Zhang 0009, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Leyou Yang, Liang Guo 0018, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Neural Comput. Appl. | 3 |
| 2021 | Joint resource allocation and routing optimization for spectrum aggregation based CRAHNs
Jian Chen 0008, Yunhe Xie, Jie Jia 0001, Mingyang Zhang 0009, Qinghu Wang, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. | 1 |
| 2018 | A Joint Optimization on Cross-Layer for mmWave Wireless NetworkabstractWith the severe spectrum shortage in conventional cellular networks, millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology has been proposed and is expected to be used in small cells to meet the increase spectrum efficiency, especially for those small cells are deployed with high density and forming as a multi-hop backhaul structure different from conventional schemes with priori given routes, a cross-layer optimization model aiming at maximizing the energy efficiency while taking into account both route selection and resource allocation. This paper decomposes the original problem into two sub-problems: resource allocation sub-problem at the link-physical layer and route selection sub-problem at the network layer. To reflect the interplay property between these two problems, we further propose two joint optimization strategies. The first is using genetic algorithm (GA) for resource allocation with given routes and using linear programming for routes selection with given resource allocation. The second is using the linear programming to evaluate the fitness of each individual in the GA. The simulation results show our solution can efficiently scale with the energy and spectrum efficiency and properly route the traffic without overloading any one of the base stations. Pengshuo Ji, Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
MSN | 3 |
| 2017 | Optimizing availability in CoMP and CA-enabled HetNetsabstractTraditional cellular networks are moving towards heterogenous cellular networks (HetNets) to satisfy the stringent demand for data rates and capacity. To enable the new applications in 5G, such as haptic communications, we face new challenges of achieving high availability with low latency in HetNets. In this paper, we introduce coordinated multi-point (CoMP) and carrier aggregation (CA) techniques in HetNets to guarantee the availability of all UEs, where CoMP improves the single-path availability, and CA enhances availability via multi carrier gain combining. To characterize the availability, we first derive an exact closed-form expression for the availability of a random UE in a CoMP&CA-enabled HetNets. To achieve the maximum UE availability, we formulate a max-min optimization problem. To solve it, we then propose a joint two-step optimization algorithm (JTOA), and our results showcase the effective of our proposed JTOA, and the effective of CoMP in availability improvement in HetNets. Jie Jia 0001, Yansha Deng, Jian Chen 0008, Hamid Aghvami, Arumugam Nallanathan, Xingwei Wang 0001 |
ICC | 3 |
| 2017 | Availability Analysis and Optimization in CoMP and CA-enabled HetNetsabstractTraditional cellular networks are moving toward heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) to satisfy the stringent demand for data rates and capacity. To enable the new applications in 5G, such as haptic communications, we face new challenges of achieving high availability with low latency in HetNets. In this paper, we introduce coordinated multi-point (CoMP) and carrier aggregation (CA) techniques in HetNets to guarantee the availability of all user equipment (UE), where the CoMP improves the single-path availability, and the CA enhances availability via multi-carrier gain combining. To characterize the availability, we first derive an exact closed-form expression for the availability of a random UE in a CoMP and CA-enabled HetNets. To achieve the maximum UE availability, we formulate a max-min optimization problem. To solve it, we then propose a two-step optimization algorithm (TSOA) and a joint (JTOA). The TSOA is based on heuristic algorithm for the optimal subcarrier assignment and UE association, and based on the Lagrangian dual method for the power allocation. The JTOA is based on genetic algorithm to achieve the interaction between the first step and the second step. Our results showcase the effective of our proposed JTOA, and the effective of the CoMP in availability improvement in HetNets. Jie Jia 0001, Yansha Deng, Jian Chen 0008, Hamid Aghvami, Arumugam Nallanathan |
IEEE Trans. Commun. | 3 |
| 2016 | Cross-Layer Optimization for Spectrum Aggregation-Based Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc NetworksabstractSpectrum aggregation provides a promising approach to improve the network capacity for Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Networks (CRAHNs). Resource allocation for spectrum aggregation-based CRAHNs has become one of the main issues. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer optimization for CRAHNs with the spectrum aggregation. The main objective of our paper is to maximize the network throughput under the network resource constraints. In this regard, we investigate the joint optimization for channel allocation, power control and routing under signal-to-interference-and- noise ratio (SINR) model. This cross-layer optimization problem is decomposed into two sub-problems: a resource allocation at the physical (PHY) layer, and a throughput optimization at the network layer. At the PHY layer, the particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed to find the suboptimal solution, then at the network layer, linear programming is applied to evaluate the particle's fitness value for throughput maximization. The simulation results demonstrate that the joint optimization of channel allocation and power control is an effective way to improve network throughput, especially when the network has sufficient power supply. Jian Chen 0008, Shuyu Ping, Jie Jia 0001, Yansha Deng, Mischa Dohler, Hamid Aghvami |
GLOBECOM | 1 |
| 2015 | A genetic approach on cross-layer optimization for cognitive radio wireless mesh network under SINR model
Jie Jia 0001, Xingwei Wang 0001, Jian Chen 0008 |
Ad Hoc Networks | 3 |
| 2012 | Design of Energy Aware Movement-Assisted Deployment in Wireless Sensor NetworkabstractIn this paper, we propose an energy aware movement-assisted deployment algorithm to achieve complete coverage and load balance for wireless sensor networks. By dividing the target area into several coronas with the same width of sensor communication radius, the optimal deployment density is computed for each corona. To the whole network, the movement of sensors can be treated as two steps. For the first step, the nodes move straightly between different coronas to regulate the number of nodes in each corona. For the second step, each node moves the adaptive distance inside the corona to achieve uniform distribution by exchanging messages only to its one-hop neighbor. Simulation results are provided to verify our analysis for wireless sensor networks. Jie Jia 0001, Jian Chen 0008, Xueli Wu |
DCOSS | 3 |
| 2012 | Joint Optimization of Interface Assignment and Channel Allocation in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks
Jie Jia 0001, Qiusi Lin, Jie Li 0008, Jian Chen 0008 |
WASA | 4 |