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AT Track 2: Low-Power and Radio-Frequency (RF) Wave Technology

Leader: Prof. Ross MURCH
Co-Leader: Prof. Chi Ying TSUI
Faculty Members: Prof. Vincent Kin Nang LAU, Prof. Chik Patrick YUE, Prof. Qian ZHANG, Prof. Angela Yingjun ZHANG

 
Presentation by Prof. Ross MURCH on the progress of AT Track 2 during the mid-cycle review on-site visit on our 6G AoE Project in Oct 2024

 

 
Journal Papers (AT Track 2)

[1] Jun Qian, Shanpu Shen, and Ross Murch, “Including Antenna Effects into Capacity Formulations of Line-of-Sight MIMO Channels,” IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, Vol.13, no. 9, pp. 2477-2481, Sept 2024. [paper]

[2] Hua Kang, Qingyong Hu, and Qian Zhang, “SF-Adapter: Computational-Efficient Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Human Activity Recognition,” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 7, no. 4, Article 164, pp. 1–23, Dec. 2023. [paper] 

[3] Wentao Xie, Huangxun Chen, Jing Wei, Jin Zhang, and Qian Zhang, “RimSense: Enabling Touch-based Interaction on Eyeglass Rim using Piezoelectric Sensors,” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 7, no. 4, Article 191, pp. 1–24, Dec. 2023. [paper] 

[4] Meng Xue, Yuyang Zeng, Shengkang Gu, Qian Zhang, Bowei Tian, and Changzheng Chen, “SDE: Early Screening for Dry Eye Disease with Wireless Signals,” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 7, no. 4, Article No 194, pp. 1–23, Dec. 2023. [paper] 

[5] Suzhi Bi, Zhenpeng Zhuo, Xiao-Hui Lin, Yuan Wu, and Ying-Jun Zhang, “Physical-Environment-Map-Aided 3-D Deployment Optimization for UAV-Assisted Integrated Localization and Communication in Urban Areas,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 15490-15503 May 2024. [paper]

[6] Noor Waqar, Kai-Kit Wong, Chan-Byoung Chae, Ross Murch, Shi Jin, and Adrian Sharples, “Opportunistic Fluid Antenna Multiple Access via Team-Inspired Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, no. 9, 12068-12083,  Sept 2024. [paper]

[7] Ranjan K Mallik, Ross Murch, “New Exact Higher Order Moment Expressions for the PAPR of Complex Gaussian Variables,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 382-386, Feb. 2024. [paper]

[8] Chanyuan Meng, Ke Xiong, Wei Chen, Bo Gao, Pingyi Fan, Khaled Ben Letaief, “Sum-rate maximization in STAR-RIS assisted RSMA networks: A PPO-based algorithm,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 5667-5680, 15 Feb 2024.  [paper]

[9] Yujie Zhang, Shiwen Tang, Junhui Rao, Chi-Yuk Chiu, Xudong Chen, and Ross Murch, “A Dual-Port Dual-Beam Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna With Independent 2-D Beam-Scanning,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 7628-7643, Oct 2024. [paper]

[10] Chang Cai, Xiaojun Yuan, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “Multi-Device Task-Oriented Communication via Maximal Coding Rate Reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Early Access, Sept 2024. [paper] 

[11] Jichen Zhang, Junhui Rao, Zan Li, Zhaoyang Ming, Chi-Yuk Chiu, Kai-Kit Wong, Kin-Fai Tong, and Ross Murch, “A Novel Pixel-Based Reconfigurable Antenna Applied in Fluid Antenna Systems With High Switching Speed,” IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Early Access, Nov 2024. [paper] 

[12] Wee Kiat New, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Xu, Farshad Rostami Ghadi, Ross Murch, and Chan-Byoung Chae, “Channel Estimation and Reconstruction in Fluid Antenna System: Oversampling is Essential,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Early Access, Nov 2024. [paper] 

[13] Linping Qu, Yuyi Mao, Shenghui Song, and Chi-Ying Tsui, “Energy-Efficient Channel Decoding for Wireless Federated Learning: Convergence Analysis and Adaptive Design,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 17222-17235, Nov 2024. [paper] 

 

Conference Papers (AT Track 2)

[1] Chongyun Zhang, Li Wang, Zilu Liu, Fuzhan Chen, Quan Pan, Xianbo Li, and C. Patrick Yue, “A 48-Gb/s Half-Rate PAM4 Optical Receiver with 0.27-pJ/bit TIA Efficiency,1.28-pJ/bit RX Efficiency, and 0.06-mm2 area in 28-nm CMOS,” in Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits, Hawaii, United States, Jun. 2024. [paper]

[2] Li Wang, Zilu Liu, Ruitao Ma and C. Patrick Yue, “A 20-24-GHz DPSSPLL with Charge-Domain Bandwidth Optimization Scheme Achieving 61.3-fs RMS Jitter and -253-dB FoMJitter,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Denver, United States, Apr. 2024.

[3] Zilu Liu, Li Wang, Hamed Fallah1, Zhijian Chen, C. Patrick Yue, “A Compact 28-GHz Transmitter Front-End with Co-Optimized Wideband Chip-Antenna Interface Achieving 18.5-dBm P1dB and 1.0-W/mm2 Power Density for Phased Array Systems,” in Proc. International Microwave Symposium, Washington, United States, Jun. 2024. [paper]

[4] Jun Qian, Chi Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief, and Ross Murch, “Two-phase channel estimation for RIS-aided cell free massive MIMO with electromagnetic interference,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Mediterranean Conf. Commun. and Networking (MeditCom), Madrid, Spain, Jul. 2024. [paper]

[5] Tianrui Qiao, Zixiang Han, Shanpu Shen, Chi-Yuk Chiu, Qingsha S. Cheng, and Ross Murch, “Performance Bounds on the Partial Gain to Q-factor Quotient for Loaded N-port Antenna Systems,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Florence, Italy, Jul. 2024. [paper]

[6] Fuzhan Chen, C. Patrick Yue, and Quan Pan, “A 56-Gbaud 7.3-Vppd Linear Modulator Transmitter with AMUX-Based Reconfigurable FFE and Dynamic Triple-Stacked Driver in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS,” in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Denver, CO, USA, Apr. 2024. [paper]

[7] Chenggao Li, Qianyi Huang, Yuxuan Zhou, Yandao Huang, Qingyong Hu, Huangxun Chen, and Qian Zhang, “RIScan: RIS-aided Multi-user Indoor Localization Using COTS Wi-Fi,” in Proc. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2023. [paper]

[8] Yuxuan Zhou, Chenggao Li, Huangxun Chen, and Qian Zhang, “RIStealth: Practical and Covert Physical-Layer Attack against WiFi-based Intrusion Detection via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface,” in Proc. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2023. [paper]

[9] Baichen Yang, Qingyong Hu1, Wentao Xie, Xinchen Wang, Wei Luo, and Qian Zhang, “PDAssess: A Privacy-preserving Free-speech based Parkinson’s Disease Daily Assessment System,” in Proc. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2023. [paper]

[10] Yuanrui Liu, Xiaoyu Zhao, Wei Chen, and Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, “Dynamic Framing and Power Allocation for Real-Time Wireless Communications with Variable-Length Coding,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023. [paper]

[11] S. M. Abbas, M. Jalaleddine, C. Y. Tsui, and W. J. Gross, “Step-GRAND: A Low Latency Universal Soft Input Decoder,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023. [paper]

[12] Fuzhan Chen, Chongyun Zhang, Li Wang, Quan Pan, and C. Patrick Yue, “A 2.05-pJ/b 56-Gb/s PAM-4 VCSEL Transmitter with Piecewise Nonlinearity Compensation and Asymmetric Equalization in 40-nm CMOS,” in Proc. IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2023. [paper]

[13] Johar Abdekhoda, Li Wang, Reza Sarvari, and Chik Patrick Yue, “A Bang-Bang Phase Detector for PAM-N Signaling,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Nanjing, China, Oct. 2023. [paper]

[14] Zilu Liu, Li Wang, Hamed Fallah, and C. Patrick Yue, “Design of Chip-to-PCB Matching Network for Millimeter-Wave On-Chip Transmitter and On-PCB Antenna,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Nanjing, China, Oct. 2023. [paper]