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This Special Issue focuses on the latest protocol research, software/hardware development and implementation, and system architecture design in addressing the emerging security and privacy issues for modern wireless communication networks.  Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Deep-learning-based security and privacy design;

  • Covert communications;

  • Information-theoretical foundations for advanced security and privacy techniques;

  • Lightweight cryptography for power-constrained networks;

  • Physical-layer key generation;

  • Prototype and testbed for security and privacy solutions;

  • Encryption and decryption algorithm for low-latency constrained networks;

  • Security protocols for modern wireless communication networks;

  • Network intrusion detection;

  • Physical layer design with security consideration;

  • Anonymity in data transmission;

  • Vulnerabilities in security and privacy in modern wireless communication networks;

  • Challenges of security and privacy in node–edge–cloud computation;

  • Security and privacy design for low-power wide-area IoT networks;

  • Security and privacy design for vehicle networks;

  • Security and privacy design for underwater communications networks;

  • Blockchain-based solutions for modern wireless communication networks.

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Journal


Ruide Li, Jinglu Cui, Tao Huang, Lei Yang, and Shihao Yan, "Optimal Pulse-Position Modulation Order and Transmit Power in Covert Communications," Submitted for possible publication, Under review

Majumder Haider, Mahmudl Peyal, Tao Huang, and Wei Xiang, "Road Crack Avoidance: A CNN-based Smart Transportation System for Intelligent Vehicles," Submitted for possible publication, Under review.

Xi Zhou, Wei Xiang, Tao Huang, Eric Wang, and Xuehua Li, “Bi-directional recursive encoder-decoder network for incomplete multivariate time series modelling,” Submitted for possible publication, Under review.

Shushi Gu, Fugang Wang, Qinyu Zhang, Tao Huang, and Wei, Xiang, "Global Repair Bandwidth Cost Optimization of Generalized Regenerating Codes in Clustered Distributed Storage Systems," in IET Communications. (Impact Factor 1.664). This open-access article can be viewed here.

Kang Han, Wei Xiang, Eric Wang and Tao Huang, "A Novel Occlusion-aware Vote Cost for Light Field Depth Estimation," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Early Access, August 2021.  doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3105523, (Impact Factor 16.39)

Shushi Gu, Xinyi Sun, Zhihua Yang, Tao Huang, Wei Xiang and Keping Yu, "Energy-Aware Coded Caching Strategy Design with Resource Optimization for Satellite-UAV-Vehicle Integrated Networks," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Early Access, Mar. 2021. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3065664. (Impact Factor 9.936)

Lynne Powel, HanShe Lim, Iain Brown, Tao Huang, Neils Munksgaard, Mark Randall, Jason Holdsworth, and Helen Cook, "Innovation through collaboration: improving urban water management for a reef council," in Water E-Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, Oct. 2020

Shuo Shi, Yuchen Li, Shushi Gu, Tao Huang and Xuemai Gu, "Time Allocation Optimization and Trajectory Design in UAV-Assisted Energy and Spectrum Harvesting Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 160537-160548, Sep. 2020. (Impact Factor 3.745)

Rana Abbas, Tao Huang, Basit Shahab, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Yonghui Li, Branka Vucetic, "Grant-Free Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access: A Key Enabler for 6G-IoT," Mar. 2020, Online Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10257

Tao Huang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jinhong Yuan, and Wei Xiang, "Optimization of Data Exchange in 5G vehicle infrastructure edge networks," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 9376-9389, Sept. 2020 (Impact Factor 5.339)

Rana Abbas, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Tao Huang, Yonghui Li, and Branka Vucetic, "Novel design for short analog fountain codes," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1306-1309, Aug. 2019. (Impact Factor 3.457)

Wei Xiang, Tao Huang, and Wanggen Wan, "Machine learning-based optimization for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications," in Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 94, pp. 488-495, May 2019. (Impact Factor 5.768)

Qifu Sun, Tao Huang, and Jinhong Yuan, "On Lattice-Partition-Based Physical-Layer Network Coding over GF(4)," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 1988-1991, October 2013. (Impact Factor 3.457)

Qifu Sun, Jinhong Yuan, Tao Huang, and Wing-Ki Shum, "Lattice Network Codes Based on Eisenstein Integers," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 2713-2725, July 2013. (Impact Factor 5.69)

Tao Huang, Tao Yang, Jinhong Yuan, and Ingmar Land, "Design of Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Coded Physical-Layer Network Coding for Gaussian Two-way Relay Channels," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 897-909, March 2013. (Impact Factor 5.69)

Tao Yang, Ingmar Land, Tao Huang, Jinhong Yuan, and Zhuo Chen, "Distance Spectrum and Performance of Channel-Coded Physical-Layer Network Coding for Binary-Input Gaussian Two-Way Relay Channels," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1499-1510, June 2012. (Impact Factor 5.69)

Gengkun Wang, Wei Xiang, Jinhong Yuan, and Tao Huang, "Outage Analysis of Non-Regenerative Analog Network Coding for Two-Way Multi-Hop Networks," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 662-664, June 2011. (Impact Factor 3.457)

 

Conference

Lynne Powell, Iain Brown, Hanshe Lim, and Tao Huang, "Innovation and Collaboration: Improving Urban Water Management for a Reef Council," Ozwater, May 2020.

Rana Abbas, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Tao Huang, Yonghui Li, and Branka Vucetic, "Performance Analysis of Short Analog Fountain Codes," in Proceeding of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2019.

Tao Huang, Jinhong Yuan, Xingqing Cheng, and Wan Lei, "Design of degrees of distribution of LDS-OFDM," in Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Cairns, QLD, December 2015.

Tao Huang, Jinhong Yuan, Xingqing Cheng, and Wan Lei, "Advanced link-to-system modelling of MMSE-SIC receiver in MIMO-OFDM systems," in Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Cairns, QLD, December 2015.

Tao Huang, Xiaojun Yuan, and Jinhong Yuan, "Degrees of Freedom of Half-duplex MIMO Multi-way Relay Channel with Full Data Exchange," in Proceeding of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2014.

Tao Huang, Jinhong Yuan, and Qifu Sun, "Opportunistic Pair-wise Compute-and-Forward in Multi-way Relay Channels," in Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.

Yuanye Ma, Tao Huang, Jun Li, Jinhong Yuan, Zihuai Lin, and Branka Vucetic, "Novel Nested Convolutional Lattice Codes for Multi-Way Relaying Systems over Fading Channels," in Proceeding of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 2671-2676, Shanghai, China, April 2013.

Tao Huang, Jinhong Yuan, and Jing (Tiffany) Li, "Analysis of Compute-and-Forward with QPSK in Two-way Relay Fading Channels," in Proceeding of the 14th Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), pp. 75-80, Adelaide, Australia, January 2013.

Tao Huang, Tao Yang, Jinhong Yuan, and Ingmar Land, "Convergence Analysis for Channel-coded Physical Layer Network Coding in Gaussian Two-way Relay Channels," in Proceeding of the 8th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), pp. 849-853, Aachen, Germany, November 2011.

Tao Yang, Ingmar Land, Tao Huang, Jinhong Yuan, and Zhuo Chen, "Distance Properties and Performance of Physical Layer Network Coding with Binary Linear Codes for Gaussian Two-Way Relay Channels," in Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 2070-2074, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011.

Gengkun Wang, Wei Xiang, Jinhong Yuan, and Tao Huang, "Outage Performance of Analog Network Coding in Generalized Two-Way Multi-Hop Networks," in Proceeding of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1988-1993, Quintana-Roo, Mexico, March 2011.

Tao Huang, Bin Guo, and Matthew Trinkle, "FPGA Implementation of GPS Carrier and Code Tracking Loops," in Proceeding of International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society Conference (IGNSS), Sydney, Australia, December 2007.

 

Edited Books

Xuyun Zhang, Guanfeng Liu, Meikang Qui, Wei Xiang and Tao Huang (2020) Cloud Computing, Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications: 9th EAI international conference, Cloudcomp 2019, and 4th EAI international conference, SmartGIFT 2019, Beijing, China, December 4-5, 2019, and December 21-22, 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 322. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.

 

Book Chapter

Raiyan Talkhani, Tao Huang, Shushi Gu, Zhaoxia Guo, Guanglin Zhang, Wei Xiang, "Deep Learning for Vehicle Safety," Book Chapter, Submitted for possible publication, Under review.

 

Patent

Jinhong Yuan, Yue Zhao, Tao Huang, and Xingqing Cheng, "Method, apparatus and receiver for computing signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio," Patent filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Publication number: WO2017049633 A1, 30 Mar. 2017.