New Air Interface Techniques for Future Massive Machine-Type Communications
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Sch of Electronics and Computer Sci
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| Lie-Liang Yang (Principal Investigator) | |
| Lajos Hanzo (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Abughalwa M
(2022)
Finite-Blocklength RIS-Aided Transmit Beamforming
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Ahmed A
(2019)
Primitive Polynomials for Iterative Recursive Soft Sequential Acquisition of Concatenated Sequences
in IEEE Access
An J
(2022)
Joint Training of the Superimposed Direct and Reflected Links in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser Communications
in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
An J
(2022)
Low-Complexity Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for RIS-Assisted MIMO Systems Relying on Discrete Phase Shifts
in IEEE Transactions on Communications
An J
(2022)
The Achievable Rate Analysis of Generalized Quadrature Spatial Modulation and a Pair of Low-Complexity Detectors
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Bai T
(2021)
Fifty Years of Noise Modeling and Mitigation in Power-Line Communications
in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Bai T
(2020)
Latency Minimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing
in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Bastami H
(2021)
On the Physical Layer Security of the Cooperative Rate-Splitting-Aided Downlink in UAV Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Bastami H
(2022)
Maximizing the Secrecy Energy Efficiency of the Cooperative Rate-Splitting Aided Downlink in Multi-Carrier UAV Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Cai Y
(2020)
Secure Hybrid A/D Beamforming for Hardware-Efficient Large-Scale Multiple-Antenna SWIPT Systems
in IEEE Transactions on Communications
| Description | During the project period (from January 2018 to Nov. 2021), ww published 130+ research papers related to the project, which are mainly journal papers. All these publications contribute to the advanced wireless transceiver design for the future generations of wireless systems relying on different techniques, such as, millimeter wave, intelligent reflective surface, etc., with the emphasis on the applications, such as, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) and massive multiple access in IoT networks, based on the advanced/intelligent signal processing techniques. We proposed a duplex method, which is able to significantly mitigate the channel aging problem in fast time-variant wireless communications environments in comparison with the existing half-duplex. It is also capable of circumventing the problem of the in-band full-duplex method, whose performance is much depended on the self-interference suppression capability. We recommend our method as a promising approach for wireless communications to shift to the 6G. For more details, please refer to our paper: B. Li, L. -L. Yang, R. G. Maunder, P. Xiao and S. Sun, "Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for the Shift to 6G Wireless Communications," in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 57-67, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1109/MVT.2021.3113881. Additionally, based on the research related to this project, we obtained an one-year project funded by Huawei with a value of £156,000. The project has also enhanced our collaboration with industry and other research institutions. In particular, we have built good research-industry relationship with the AccelerComm Limited, Southampton, via this and another research project funded by the Innovation UK. |
| Exploitation Route | Different ways as described in the `pathways to impact' have been considered and practiced to take the findings forward, and to find their practical applications. Specifically, we have collaboration with industries and other research institutions. We will emploit any possible opportunities to convey our outcomes the industry partners. Our Futureworld also helped to enhance the impact of our research outcomes. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics |
| Description | The project was started in January 2018 and completed in November 2021 after about one-year of extension due to the delay generated by the recruitment of researcher. To our knowledge, the research findings of the project have generated the impacts as follows. First, 130+ research papers were published in prestige journals (mainly IEEE journals), and the research results have been drawing attention of the researchers in wireless communications communities. Second, the project was first employed a research associate (RA), who worked with the project for about a year. Then, we employed the second RA, who joined the project in Feb. 2020, until the project was completed in November 2021. Third, in addition to the RAs directed employed for the project, a number of PhD students were involved in the project, who studied the different issues related to the project. A range of research papers were authored and published based on their research results. During the project, the RAs and some PhD students attended international conferences and also the project-scheduled meetings, and they presented their research findings. Therefore, the project provided a promising route for the training of young researchers. Fourth, a number of tutorial lectures were provided at conferences, workshops and the different national/international universities, and the lectures attracted many young researchers, research students at doctor/master levels, having motivated some of them to carry out the related research toward the future generations of wireless communications. Fifth, during the project, in addition to inviting our industry partners to attend our regular meetings, discuss the technical details and to seek their feedback, we also introduced our research findings to some industry visitors via providing tutorial lectures. Some of them, such as Huawei, AccelerComm, etc., were interested in our research findings and further issues, which has substantially enhanced our relationship/collaboration with industries. Sixth, based on the research from the project, further fundings from Huawei were awarded, which supported a RA for a year, enhanced the planned research of the project. Finally and also very importantly, through the project, the research team at the University of Southampton has built a collaboration framework with the research team at the University of Surrey. Based on this collaboration framework, we have enhanced our research collaboration, generated joint research results and co-authored research papers. We have planned to jointly apply for further research fundings to enhance our research built on this research project. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | IM based NOMA |
| Amount | £152,600 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 162963 |
| Organisation | Huawei Technologies |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | China |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Title | Dataset for Paper: Multicarrier Division Duplex Aided Millimeter Wave Communications |
| Description | Dataset for Paper: R. Rajashekar, C. Xu, N. Ishikawa, L. -L. Yang and L. Hanzo, "Multicarrier Division Duplex Aided Millimeter Wave Communications," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 100719-100732, 2019. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930333 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8768382&isnumber=8600701 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Has received 6 google citations. No explicit impact noticed. |
| URL | https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/modules/datasets/external/model/dataset/editor/d... |
| Title | Dataset for Paper: Sixty Years of Coherent Versus Non-coherent Tradeoffs and the Road from 5G to Wireless Futures |
| Description | This is the dataset for the paper: C. Xu et al., "Sixty Years of Coherent Versus Non-Coherent Tradeoffs and the Road From 5G to Wireless Futures," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 178246-178299, 2019. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2957706 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8922634&isnumber=8600701 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Has received 30 google citations. No explicit impact noticed. |
| URL | https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/modules/datasets/external/model/dataset/editor/d... |
| Title | Dataset for Paper: Spatial Modulated Multicarrier Sparse Code-Division Multiple Access |
| Description | Dataset for Paper: Y. Liu, L. Yang, P. Xiao, H. Haas and L. Hanzo, "Spatial Modulated Multicarrier Sparse Code-Division Multiple Access," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 610-623, Jan. 2020. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2019.2947042 keywords: {Multiaccess communication;Peak to average power ratio;Frequency-domain analysis;Frequency-selective fading channels;NOMA;Transmitters;Multicarrier;CDMA;sparse spreading;spatial modulation;maximum a posteriori detection;message passing algorithm;performance}, URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8876885&isnumber=8952731 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Has received 11 google citations. No other explicit impact noticed. |
| URL | https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/modules/datasets/external/model/dataset/editor/d... |
| Title | Dataset for Paper: Spatial Modulation Aided Sparse Code-Division Multiple Access |
| Description | Dataset for Paper: Y. Liu, L. -L. Yang and L. Hanzo, "Spatial Modulation Aided Sparse Code-Division Multiple Access," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1474-1487, March 2018. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2778722 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8166802&isnumber=8309484 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Has received 35 google citations. No explicit impact noticed. |
| URL | https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/modules/datasets/external/model/dataset/editor/d... |
| Title | Dataset for paper: Sparse Space-Time-Frequency-Domain Spreading for Large-Scale Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access |
| Description | Research data for the paper: Liu, Y., Yang, L.-L. and Hanzo, L., 'Sparse Space-Time-Frequency-Domain Spreading for Large-Scale Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access' in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The paper has received five google citations. No explicit impact noticed. |
| URL | https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/modules/datasets/external/model/dataset/editor/d... |
| Title | Dataset for: Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for Shift to 6G Wireless Communications |
| Description | This dataset contains the matlab files for Figures 3, 6, and 8 from the paper Bohan et al (2021), 'Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for Shift to 6G Wireless Communications' published in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. Each folder is named according to its content, where the curves of each figure are stored in mat files. To regenerate the results, please use the Matlab. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No obvious impact noticed. |
| URL | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/451303/ |
| Title | Research Data - Machine Learning Assisted Adaptive Index Modulation for mmWave Communications |
| Description | This dataset supports the publication on IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, which title is 'Machine Learning Assisted Adaptive Index Modulation for mmWave Communications'. This dataset contains Figure 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the aforementioned paper. Each folder is named according to its content, where the curves of each figure are stored in mat files. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No explicit impact noticed. |
| URL | https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/editor/dk/atira/pure/modules/datasets/external/model/dataset/editor/d... |
| Description | Kai-Ten Feng and Sau-Hsuan Wu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan |
| Organisation | National Chiao Tung University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since 2018, I have had monthly online meetings with the collaborators from NCTU, hosted two postgraduate visitors from there. Furthermore, we have had several joint publications. Currently, we are co-author a book on resource allocation in wireless communications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Several colleagues from NCTU visited the University of Southampton in the summer of 2018, and they hosted Prof. Yang to visit NCTU. Via our monthly meetings, colleagues from NCTU have inspired new research ideas and provided new research tools (algorithms) to the research in the University of Southampton. Additionally, as above-mentioned, we are writing a book, several chapters of which will be contributed by the colleagues from NCTU. |
| Impact | Research publications: 1) K. Liu, S. Wu and L. Yang, "Antenna Selections for Multi-Target Detection of Vehicular mmWave Radar with Large Antenna Arrays," 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, 2020, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/VTC2020-Spring48590.2020.9128708 2) C.-H. Fang, K.-T. Feng, and L.-L. Yang, "Resource Allocation for URLLC Service in In-Band Full-Duplex Based V2I Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, under review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Project partner: Prof. P. Xiao and Prof. R. Tafazolli from University of Surrey |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Department | Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Workshops were organised and held at the University of Southampton and University Surrey in 2018-2020, with the focus on reporting the research progresses/outcomes of both the teams of the University of Southampton and the University of Surrey. Some colleagues from our industry partners of AccelerComm, NEC, and Sony Europe Limited (UK) also attended the workshop. Furthermore, a number of research papers have been published in IEEE journals. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project kick-off meeting was held in January 2018 at the University of Surrey, and a project meeting was held in 2018 at Southampton University. Two project meetings were held in 2019 at Southampton University and Surrey University, respectively. In 2020, due to the COVID-19, no physical meetings were held, but we had two online meetings. |
| Impact | Several meetings were held, and several collaborative research papers were completed, which are 1. Z. Chu, P. Xiao, D. Mi, W. Hao, M. Khalily and L. -L. Yang, "A Novel Transmission Policy for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Wireless Powered Sensor Networks," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1143-1158, Aug. 2021. doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2021.3089423 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9457152&isnumber=9564084 2. B. Li, L. -L. Yang, R. G. Maunder, P. Xiao and S. Sun, "Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for the Shift to 6G Wireless Communications," in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 57-67, Dec. 2021. doi: 10.1109/MVT.2021.3113881 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9582783&isnumber=9635743 3. Y. Liu, L. Yang, P. Xiao, H. Haas and L. Hanzo, "Spatial Modulated Multicarrier Sparse Code-Division Multiple Access," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 610-623, Jan. 2020. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2019.2947042 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8876885&isnumber=8952731 4. Chang He, Lie-liang Yang, Pei Xiao and M. A. Imran, "DS-CDMA assisted visible light communications systems," 2015 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Guildford, UK, 2015, pp. 27-32. doi: 10.1109/CAMAD.2015.7390475 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7390475&isnumber=7390465 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Invited talk (Fudan University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The talk was about the massive multiple-access in IoT wireless networks, about 30 postgraduate students and academic staffs attended. The talk drew research interest of postgraduate students, sparked discussion on a range of topics, and inspired new research issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk (Nantong University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The talk was on the massive machine type communications, given at a workshop held at the Nantong University of China. Audiences included mainly postgraduate students, under graduate students and academic staffs from the university. The talk led a lot of discussion about the related issues, it inspired new research on machine type communications and IoT relied wireless communications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Massive Multiple-Access for 5G IoT (NCTU) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In November 2018, Prof. Yang visited National Chio Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, for three days and provided a seminar mainly for the postgraduate students. After the visit, several postgraduate students visited the University of Southampton. We have also built a collaboration programme with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NCTU. We co-authored several publications. Furthermore, we are writing a joint book on resource allocation in wireless communications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for Shift from 5G to 6G |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A half-day tutorial will be provided at the IEEE ICC'2023 conference to be held in Italy. The abstract of the tutorial is as follows: Abstract: Our research on multicarrier-division duplex (MDD) has envisaged it a most promising duplexing candidate for shifting wireless networks from 5G to 6G. Benefiting from its flexible time-frequency resource usage and efficient management of self-interference and cross-layer interference, MDD exhibits the efficiency and reliability in high-mobility communications and dense AP networks. MDD can be seamlessly incorporated with other advanced techniques, such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS), thereby providing high-efficiency and robust performance for various types of communications systems, including massive machine type communications, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications and the ultra-high-speed enhanced mobile broadband communications systems. This tutorial provides a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art of MDD based on our research results. It makes an in-depth comparison between MDD and TDD, FDD and in-band full duplex, to demonstrate its advantages and reveal its potential for the design of future wireless systems. The fundamentals of MDD, channel estimation and self-interference cancellation, and some potential applications of MDD in, such as, massive MIMO, mmWave, cell-free (CF) dense networks and high-mobility wireless communications, will be addressed. Furthermore, it explains how graph neural networks can be employed to implement resource allocation in dense MDD-CF networks, and demonstrate its scalability to optimize the CF networks of various size. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/program/tutorials |
| Description | Tutorial at IEEE VTC Fall, 2021: Code-Domain NOMA for 5G and Beyond: Principles, Recent Advances and Future Directions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Abstract: Wireless networks have been rapidly evolving towards providing machine-centric data services. Against an increasingly congested and fragmented spectrum, a major research theme nowadays for 5G and beyond (B5G) networks is how to design efficient multiple access protocols to support explosive growth of communication devices. These devices, widely present in a broad range of vertical industries such as factories of future, intelligent refineries and chemical plants, vehicle-to-everything networks, may be densely deployed in certain area for a highly diverse range of data collection and/or control operations. This tutorial will provide a systematic introduction on code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (CD-NOMA) which is a disruptive technique for efficient enabling of massive and ubiquitous connectivity in future machine-type communication networks. The audience will gain insights on basic principles, recent advances, and comparisons of various NOMA schemes as well as their future directions in B5G networks. The tutorial was jointly given by: Lie-liang Yang, University of Southampton, UK Pei Xiao, University of Surrey, UK Zilong Liu, University of Essex, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | University and Industry Visits |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | a) Prof. Yang visited the University of Sun Yat-Sen University, South China University of Technology, South China Normal University, P.R. China, and National Jiaotong University, R.O. China to present our research outputs related to the project, promote its impact, and to seek collaboration opportunities. The talks attracted many graduated students, and the research students/researchers working on wireless communications towards 5G systems. Some collaborations have been built and collaboration outputs are expected in the near future. b) Prof. Yang provided a presentation concerning the research issues of the project to the colleagues from Huawei Shanghai. They are very interested in the researches of the project, and a related collaborative research project with Huawei has been negotiated since October 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |