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Full list of publications in reverse chronological order

* indicates my supervised student whose thesis/dissertation work constitutes the main part of the paper

Preprint

Z. Yu*, Q. Sun, and W. Zhang, "Data-driven neural estimation of indirect rate-distortion function" [arxiv]

S. Pang* and W. Zhang, "Generalized nearest neighbor decoding: general input constellation and a case study of interference suppression" [arxiv]

J. Liu*, H. V. Poor, I. Song, and W. Zhang, "A rate-distortion analysis for composite sources under subsource-dependent fidelity criteria" [arxiv]

L. Chen, S. Wu, W. Ye, H. Wu, W. Zhang, H. Wu, and B. Bai, "A constrained BA algorithm for rate-distortion and distortion-rate functions" [arxiv]

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In press


S. Pang and W. Zhang, "Information rates of channels with additive white Cauchy noise," IEEE Communications Letters [arxiv]

J. Li* and W. Zhang, "Asymptotically optimal joint sampling and compression for timely status updates: age-distortion tradeoff," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology [link]


L. Chen, S. Wu, S. Xu, W. Zhang, and H. Wu, "Neural estimation of the information bottleneck based on a mapping approach," IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Shenzhen, China, November 2024

X. Li, L. Chen, S. Wu, H. Wu, H. Wu, and W. Zhang, "Alternating maximization algorithm for mismatch capacity with oblivious relaying,"
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Shenzhen, China, November 2024

Z. Li* and W. Zhang, "ORBGRAND: achievable rate for general bit channels and application in BICM," IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Valencia, Spain, September 2024 [arxiv]

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2024

X. Liu*, J. Zhou, and W. Zhang, "Information theoretic limits of improved ACO-OFDM receivers in optical intensity channels with time dispersion," IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Vol. 5, pp. 489-502, 2024 [link]


L. Wan* and W. Zhang, "Approaching maximum likelihood decoding performance via reshuffling ORBGRAND," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024 [link]

J. Liu*, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "PAC learnability for reliable communication over discrete memoryless channels,"
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024 [link] (supplemental materials [arxiv])

L. Chen, S. Wu, W. Zhang, H. Wu, and H. Wu, "On convergence of discrete schemes for computing the rate-distortion function of continuous source,"
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024 [link] (supplemental materials [arxiv])

L. Chen, J. Ye, S. Wu, H. Wu, H. Wu, and W. Zhang, "An expectation-maximization relaxed method for privacy funnel," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024 [link]
(supplemental materials [arxiv])

L. Chen, S. Wu, X. Li, H. Wu. H. Wu, and W. Zhang, "A double maximization approach for optimizing the LM rate of mismatched decoding,"
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024 [link] (supplemental materials [arxiv])

M. Lan*, S. Xiao, and W. Zhang, "Adaptive communication resource allocation for federated learning with UEP strategies," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-S), Singapore, June 2024 [link]

L. Chen, S. Wu, J. Ye, H. Wu, W. Zhang, and H. Wu, "Efficient and provably convergent computation of information bottleneck: a semi-relaxed approach," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, June 2024 [link]


I. Song, S. R. Park, W. Zhang, and S. Lee, Fundamentals of Order and Rank Statistics, Springer, 2024, ISBN 9783031506000 [link]

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2023

C. Liu*, W. Zhang, and X. Du, "Pairs of ternary perfect sequences with three-valued cross-correlation," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Vol. E106-A, No. 12, pp. 1521-1524, December 2023

M. Lan*, Q. Ling, S. Xiao, and W. Zhang, "Quantization bits allocation for wireless federated learning," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 22, No. 11, pp. 8336-8351, November 2023 [link]

R. Deng* and W. Zhang, "Massive access made simple: Bloom filter based coding under hard-decision envelope detection," IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Vol. 4, pp. 1957-1975, 2023 [link]

M. Liu*, Y. Wei, Z. Chen, and W. Zhang, "ORBGRAND is almost capacity-achieving," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 2830-2840, May 2023 [link]

N. Xu, X. Chen, Y. Cao, and W. Zhang, "Hybrid post-training quantization for super-resolution neural network compression," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 30, pp. 379-383, 2023 [link]


K. Wang, Y. Wei, Z. Chen, H. Yin, L. Li, and W. Zhang, "Reduced-search ORBGRAND decoding of polar codes," SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023 [link]


J. Li* and W. Zhang, "Joint design of sampler and compressor for timely status updates: age-distortion tradeoff," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2023 [link]

J. Hou*, X. Chen, and W. Zhang, "RL-based freshness-aware frame model selection for real-time wireless video transmission," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Florence, Italy, June 2023 [link]

L. Chen, S. Wu, W. Ye, H. Wu, H. Wu. W. Zhang, B. Bai, and Y. Sun, "Information bottleneck revisited: posterior probability perspective with optimal transport," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Taipei, June 2023 [link]

S. Wu, W. Ye, H. Wu, H. Wu, W. Zhang, and B. Bai, "A communication optimal transport approach to the computation of rate distortion functions," IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Saint-Malo, France, April 2023 [link]

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2022

C. Liu*, W. Zhang, and Y. Yang, "Ternary perfect sequences with three-valued cross correlation," Advances in Mathematics of Communications, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 893-901, November 2022 [link]

J. Liu*, S. Shao, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "An indirect rate-distortion characterization for semantic sources: general model and the case of Gaussian observation," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 70, No. 9, pp. 5946-5959, September 2022 [link]

S. Pang*, J. Zhou, and W. Zhang, "Asymptotic capacity loss under spectral leakage constraint for weakly nonlinear transmitter," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 7609-7623, September 2022 [link]


Y. Wang* and W. Zhang, "Generalized nearest neighbor decoding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 5852-5865, September 2022 [link]

X. Liu*, J. Zhou, N. Huang, and W. Zhang, "Improved receivers for optical wireless OFDM: an information theoretic perspective," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 70, No. 7, pp. 4439-4453, July 2022 [link]

R. Sun, W. Wang, L. Chen, G. Wei, and W. Zhang, "Diagnosis of intelligent reflecting surface in millimeter-wave communication systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 3921-3934, June 2022 [link]


R.-H. Chen, L. Li, J. Zhang, W. Zhang, and J. Zhou, "On the capacity of MISO optical intensity channels with per-antenna power constraints," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 6, pp. 3920-3941, June 2022 [link]

W. Liu, L. Chen, and W. Zhang, "Decentralized federated learning: balancing communication and computing costs," IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, Vol. 8, pp. 131-143, 2022 [link]


W. Ye, H. Wu, S. Wu, Y. Wang, W. Zhang, H. Wu, and B. Bai, "An optimal transport approach to the computation of the LM rate," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2022 [link]

X. Jin, Z. Chen, Y. Wei, W. Zhang, H. Yin, and L. Li, "ORB-enhanced belief propagation decoding of polar codes," International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Nanjing, China, November 2022 [link]

W. Shi*, S. Pang, and W. Zhang, "Linear shrinkage receiver for slow fading channels under imperfect channel state information," IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Mumbai, India, November 2022 [link]

R. Deng* and W. Zhang, "Massive connectivity with hard-decision envelope detection and Bloom filter based coding," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC), Oulu, Finland, July 2022 [link]

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2021

R. Sun, W. Wang, L. Chen, G. Wei, and W. Zhang, "Blind diagnosis for millimeter-wave large-scale antenna systems," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 2390-2394, July 2021 [link]

R. Sun, W. Wang, L. Chen, G. Wei, and W. Zhang, "Hybrid beamforming system diagnosis: failure modeling and identification," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 3415-3429, June 2021 [link]


J. Chen*, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "A Bayesian approach to sequential change detection and isolation problems," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 1796-1803, March 2021 [link]

R. Deng*, J. Zhou, and W. Zhang, "Bandlimited communication with one-bit quantization and oversampling: transceiver design and performance evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 845-862, February 2021 [link]


S. Pang* and W. Zhang, "Generalized nearest neighbor decoding for MIMO channels with imperfect channel state information," in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), October 2021 [link]

X. Liu*, J. Zhou, N. Huang, and W. Zhang, "Information theoretic limits of improved ACO-OFDM receivers," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication, September 2021 [link]

J. Liu*, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "A rate-distortion framework for characterizing semantic information," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021 [link]

J. Zhou and W. Zhang, "New achievability results for the bandlimited optical intensity channel," (invited paper) in Proc. IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Xiamen, China, July 2021 [link]


M. Liu, J. Zhou, S. Li, and W. Zhang, "Orthogonal time frequency space modulation for channels with very high mobility," ZTE Communications, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 9-13, Aug. 2021

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2020

J. Chen*, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "A false discovery rate oriented approach to parallel sequential change detection problems," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 68, pp. 1823-1836, 2020 [link]

W. Liu, L. Chen, Y. Chen, and W. Zhang, "Accelerating federated learning via momentum gradient descent," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 1754-1766, August 2020 [link]



R. Sun, W. Wang, L. Chen, and W. Zhang, "Reliability analysis of tree-structured systems using characteristic function," in Proc. 66th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Palm Springs, CA, USA, January 2020 (PRIME paper) [link]


T. Mu, X. Chen, Y. Wang, L. Ma, D. Liu, J. Zhou, and W. Zhang, "A survey on deep learning based joint source-channel coding," Telecommunication Science (Chinese), Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 56-66, October 2020

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2019

J. Zhou and W. Zhang, "Bounds on the capacity region of the optical intensity multiple access channel," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 67, No. 11, pp. 7629-7641 [link]

W. Zhang, Y. Wang*, C. Shen, and N. Liang*, "A regression approach to certain information transmission problems," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue of Machine Learning in Wireless Communications,
Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 2517-2531, November 2019 [link]


M. Yu* and W. Zhang, "Rate analysis of ad hoc networks under rapid on-off-division duplex," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC), Dalian, China, September 2019 [link]

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2018

J. Zhou and W. Zhang, "A comparative study of unipolar OFDM schemes in Gaussian optical intensity channel," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 1549-1564, April 2018 [link]


J. Pan* and W. Zhang, "Identifying rumor sources using dominant eigenvalue of nonbacktracking matrix, " in Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Anaheim, CA, USA, November 2018 [link]

Y. Wang, J. Zhou, and W. Zhang, "Capacity bounds for bandlimited Gaussian channels with peak-to-average-power-ratio constraint," in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Guangzhou, China, November 2018 [link]

Y. Hu*, Y. Zhong, and W. Zhang, "Age of information in Poisson networks," in Proc. 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Hangzhou, China, October 2018 [link]

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2017

Y. Zhong, M. Haenggi, F.-C. Zheng, W. Zhang, and T. Q. S. Quek, "Toward a tractable delay analysis in ultra-dense networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 12, pp. 103-109, December 2017 [link]

Y. Zhong, T. Quek, and W. Zhang, "Complementary networking for C-RAN: spectrum efficiency, delay and system cost," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 4639-4653, July 2017 [link]


J. Zhou and W. Zhang, "On the capacity of bandlimited optical intensity channels with Gaussian noise," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 2481-2493, June 2017 [link]


L. Wu*, Y. Zhong, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "Scalable transmission over heterogeneous networks: a stochastic geometry analysis," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 1845-1859, February 2017 [link]



J. Zhou and W. Zhang, "Information rates of unipolar OFDM schemes in Gaussian optical intensity channel," in Proc. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Nanjing, China, October 2017 [link]

J. Chen*, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "An FDR-oriented approach to multiple sequential fault detection and isolation" (invited paper) in Proc. the Fifth-fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, October 2017 [link]

W. Zhang and L. Huang*, "On OR many-access channels," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany, June 2017 [link]


A. Salimi, W. Zhang, S. Vedantam, and U. Mitra, "The capacity-distortion function for multihop channels with state,"
in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany, June 2017 [link]

B. Li*, N. Liang, and W. Zhang, "On transmission model for massive MIMO under low-resolution output quantization," (invited paper) in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Spring), Sydney, Australia, June 2017 [link]


L. Wu* and W. Zhang, "User-cognizant scalable video transmission over heterogeneous cellular networks," in Handbook of Cognitive Radio, W. Zhang ed., Springer, 2017 [link]


Y. Zhong, F.-C. Zheng, and W. Zhang, "Dynamic scheduling and optimization of resources in hyper-cellular network," SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis (Chinese), Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 576-590, May 2017 [link]

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2016

N. Liang* and W. Zhang, "Mixed-ADC massive MIMO uplink in frequency-selective channels," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 64, No. 11, pp. 4652-4666, November 2016 [link]

Y. Zhong, P. Qiao*, W. Zhang, and F.-C. Zheng, "No blind spot: network coverage enhancement through joint cooperation and frequency reuse," Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 773-783, October 2016 [link]


W. Nie, Y. Zhong, F.-C. Zheng, W. Zhang, and T. O'Farrell, "HetNets with random DTX scheme: local delay and energy efficiency," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 8, pp. 6601-6613, August 2016 [link]

Y. Zhong*, M. Haenggi, T. Quek, and W. Zhang, "On the stability of static Poisson networks under random access," IEEE Transactions on Communications,
Vol. 64, No. 7, pp. 2985-2998, July 2016 [link]

L. Wu* and W. Zhang, "Caching-based scalable video transmission over cellular networks," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1156-1159, June 2016 [link]


W. Nie, F.-C. Zheng, X. Wang, W. Zhang, and S. Jin, "User-centric cross-tier base station clustering and cooperation in heterogeneous networks: rate improvement and energy saving," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Series on Green Communications and Networking, Second Issue, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 1192-1206, May 2016 [link]


A. Guo, Y. Zhong, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "The Gauss-Poisson process for wireless networks and the benefits of cooperation," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 1916-1929, May 2016 [link]

W. Zhang, G. V. Moustakides, and H. V. Poor, "Opportunistic detection rules: finite and asymptotic analysis," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 2140-2152, April 2016 [link]

N. Liang* and W. Zhang, "Mixed-ADC massive MIMO," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue of Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Wireless Communication Systems, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 983-997, April 2016 [link]


J. Chen*, W. Zhang and H. V. Poor, "On parallel sequential change detection controlling false discovery rate," (invited paper) in Proc. 50th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 2016 [link]

J. Chen*, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "Non-Bayesian multiple change-point detection controlling false discovery rate," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, July 2016 [link]

W. Zhang, "A remark on channels with transceiver distortion," (invited paper) in Proc. Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, La Jolla, CA, USA, January-February 2016 [link]

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2015

W. Dong*, J. Chen, Y. Yang, and W. Zhang, "Epidemic-like proximity-based traffic offloading," China Communications, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 91-107, October 2015 [link]

L. Ding, W. Chen, W. Zhang, and H. V. Poor, "MIMO radar imaging with imperfect carrier synchronization: a point spread function analysis," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 2236-2247, July 2015 [link]

L. Liu*, Y. Zhong, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "On the impact of coordination on local delay and energy efficiency in Poisson networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 241-244, June 2015 [link]


Z. Wang*, W. Dong, W. Zhang, and C. W. Tan, "Rooting our rumor sources in online social networks: the value of diversity from multiple observations," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue of Big Data, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 663-677, June 2015 [link]

W. Dong*, Y. Yang, and W. Zhang, "On the selection of information sources for gossip spreading," International Journal on Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol. 2015, Article ID 276014, 2015 [link]

W. Dong*, Y. Yang, and W. Zhang, "Gossiping with message splitting on structured networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol. 2015, Article ID 504581, 2015 [link]


Y. Zhong*, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "Delay analysis in static Poisson network," (invited paper) in Proc. IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Shenzhen, China, November 2015 [link]

N. Liang* and W. Zhang, "A mixed-ADC receiver architecture for massive MIMO systems," in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Jeju Island, Korea, October 2015 [link]

L. Li and W. Zhang, "On the encoding complexity of systematic polar codes," (invited paper) in Proc. IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), Beijing, China, September 2015 [link]

Z. Wang*, W. Zhang, and C. W. Tan, "On inferring rumor source for SIS model under multiple observations," (invited paper) in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Singapore, July 2015 [link]

Y. Zhong*, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "Stability analysis of static Poisson networks," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, June 2015 [link]

Y. Zhong*, P. Cheng, N. Wang, and W. Zhang, "Dynamic TDD enhancement through distributed interference coordination," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, June 2015 [link]

W. Nie, Y. Zhong, F.-C. Zheng, and W. Zhang, "Local delay and energy efficiency analysis in HetNets with random DTX scheme," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, June 2015 [link]

Y. Zhang*, W. Zhang, and Q. Ling, "To go or not to go green: an economic analysis," in Proc. 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), GrEEN Workshop, Mumbai, India, May 2015 [link]

L. Wu*, Y. Zhong, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "Scalable transmission over heterogeneous networks," in Proc. 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Mumbai, India, May 2015 [link]

N. Liang*, W. Zhang, and C. Shen, "An uplink interference analysis for massive MIMO systems with MRC and ZF receivers," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, USA, March 2015 [link]

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2014

Z. Wang* and W. Zhang, "A separation architecture for achieving energy-efficient cellular networking," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 3113-3123, June 2014 [
link]

Y. Zhong*, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "Managing interference correlation through random medium access," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 928-941, February 2014 [link]


W. Nie, X. Wang, F.-C. Zheng, and W. Zhang, "Energy-efficient base station cooperation in downlink heterogeneous cellular networks," in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Austin, TX, USA, December 2014 [link]

W. Zhang, G. V. Moustakides, and H. V. Poor, "Opportunistic detection rules," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, USA, June-July 2014 [
link]

A. Guo, Y. Zhong, M. Haenggi, and W. Zhang, "Success probabilities in Gauss-Poisson networks with and without cooperation," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, USA, June-July 2014 [link]

Z. Wang*, W. Dong, W. Zhang, and C. W. Tan, "Rumor source detection with multiple observations: fundamental limits and algorithms," in Proc. the 2014 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'14), Austin, TX, USA, June 2014; also in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1-13, June 2014 [
link]

Y. Zhong*, W. Zhang, and M. Haenggi, "Stochastic analysis of the mean interference for the RTS/CTS mechanism," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, June 2014 [link]

L. Wu*, Y. Zhong, and W. Zhang, "Spatial statistical modeling for heterogeneous cellular networks - an empirical study," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Spring), Seoul, Korea, May 2014 [link]



J. Pan* and W. Zhang, "Energy efficiency priority admission control and service transfer algorithm based on Markov decision processes in hierarchical networks," Journal of University of Science and Technology of China (Chinese), Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 138-146, February 2014

J. Pan* and W. Zhang, "An admission control algorithm based on mobility and service in femtocell networks," Journal of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese), Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 139-144, January 2014

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2013

Z. Wang, H. Yin, W. Zhang, and G. Wei, "Monobit digital receivers for QPSK: design, performance and impact of IQ imbalances," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol.  61, No.  8, pp. 3292-3303, August 2013 [
link]

Y. Zhong* and W. Zhang, "Multi-channel hybrid access femtocells: a stochastic geometric analysis," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, No. 7, pp. 3016-3026, July 2013 [
link]

W. Zhang and H. V. Poor, "Opportunistic detection under a fixed-sample-size setting," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 1107-1114, February 2013 [link]


P. Qiao*, Y. Zhong, and W. Zhang, "Base station cooperation for energy efficiency: a Gauss-Poisson process approach," (invited paper) in Proc. APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October-November 2013 [link]

Z. Wang, H. Yin, W. Zhang, and G. Wei, "Monobit digital receivers for QPSK modulation using impulse radio," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2013-Fall), Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 2013 (shortlisted for best paper award)
[link]

W. Dong*, W. Zhang, and C. W. Tan, "Rooting out the rumor culprit from suspects," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013 [link] (supplemental materials [link])

F. Zhang* and W. Zhang, "Competition between wireless service providers: pricing, equilibrium, and efficiency," in Proc. 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 2013 [link]

L. Ding, W. Chen, and W. Zhang, "EM-based sparse imaging for colocated MIMO radar under phase synchronization mismatch," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 2013 [link]


T. Zhang* and W. Zhang, "A periodogram-based sensing method for wireless microphone signal," Journal of University of Science and Technology of China (Chinese), Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 816-821, October 2013

T. Zhang* and W. Zhang, "Suppression of narrowband interference using frequency-domain cross-correlation," Journal of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese), Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 671-675, September 2013

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2012

F. Zhang*, W. Zhang, and Q. Ling, "Non-cooperative game for capacity offload," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 1565-1575, April 2012 [
link]

W. Zhang, "A general framework for transmission with transceiver distortion and some applications," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 384-399, February 2012 [link]


F. Zhang* and W. Zhang, "On competition between wireless service providers," (invited paper) in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), Singapore, November 2012 [link]

L. Ding, C. Liu, W. Chen, and W. Zhang, "Sparsity-driven high resoluation FDLFM-MIMO radar imaging," in Proc. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Huangshan, China, October 2012 [link]

H. Sun*, T. Zhang, and W. Zhang, "Separating the wheat from the chaff: sensing wireless microphones in TVWS," (poster abstract) in Proc. the sixth IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Bellevue, WA, USA, October 2012
[link]

J. Cao*, D. Wang, and W. Zhang, "Statistical characterization of TVWS noise: an experimental study," in Proc. the sixth IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Bellevue, WA, USA, October 2012 [link]

W. Dong*, W. Zhang, and G. Wei, "Extracting influential information sources for gossiping," in Proc. the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, October 2012 [link]

Z. Chen, W. Zhang, and G. Wei, "Robust transmit beamforming for multigroup multicasting," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall), Quebec City, Canada, September 2012 [link]

J. Pan* and W. Zhang, "An MDP-based handover decision algorithm in hierarchical LTE networks," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall), Quebec City, Canada, September 2012
[link]

W. Dong*, W. Zhang, and X. Chen, "A new load equation for 802.11 MAC performance evaluation under non-saturated conditions," in Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Beijing, China, August 2012
[link]

W. Zhang, "Outage-constrained service capacity with stochastic resource harvesting," (invited paper) in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, July 2012 [link]

F. Zhang*, W. Zhang, and Q. Ling, "Capacity offload game over unlicensed spectrum," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2012 [link]

Y. Zhong* and W. Zhang, "Downlink analysis of multi-channel hybrid access two-tier networks," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2012 [link]


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2011

W. Zhang, S. Vedantam, and U. Mitra, "Joint transmission and state estimation: a constrained channel coding approach," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 10, pp. 7084-7095, October 2011 [link]

W. Zhang and H. V. Poor, "On minimax robust detection of stationary Gaussian signals in white Gaussian noise," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 3915-3924, June 2011 [link]

W. Zhang, U. Mitra, and M. Chiang, "Optimization of amplify-and-forward multicarrier two-hop transmission," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1434-1455, May 2011 [link]

Z. Quan, W. Zhang, S. J. Shellhammer, and A. H. Sayed, "Optimal spectral feature detection for spectrum sensing at very low SNR," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 201-212, January 2011 [link]


W. Zhang, "Some results on signal detection with one-sided stopping and deadline," (invited paper) in Proc. the Forty-fifth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 2011 [link]

Z. Li, W. Zhang, and W. Wang, "A tone reservation method combining linear clipping and PRT-aided detection algorithm," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2011-Fall), San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2011 [
link]



A. K. Sadek, S. J. Shellhammer, C. Shen, and W. Zhang, "White space availability in the United States," Chapter 4 in TV White Space Spectrum Technologies: Regulations, Standards, and Applications, R. A. Saeed and S. J. Shellhammer ed., CRC Press, 2011, ISBN 9781439848791

S. J. Shellhammer, C. Shen, A. K. Sadek, and W. Zhang, "TV white space regulations," Chapter 1 in TV White Space Spectrum Technologies: Regulations, Standards, and Applications, R. A. Saeed and S. J. Shellhammer ed., CRC Press, 2011, ISBN 9781439848791



Z. Li, W. Zhang, and W. Wang, "A new approach of clipping ratio estimation in clipped OFDM system," Journal of University of Science and Technology of China (English), Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 950-957, November 2011

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2010

W. Zhang, M. Stojanovic, and U. Mitra, "Analysis of a linear multihop underwater acoustic network," IEEE Journal on Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 961-970, October 2010 [link]


W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Spectrum shaping: a new perspective on cognitive radio - part II: coexistence with uncoded legacy transmission," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp. 2971-2983, October 2010 [link]


W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Spectrum shaping: a new perspective on cognitive radio - part I: coexistence with coded legacy transmission," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1857-1867, June 2010 [
link]

W. Zhang, H. V. Poor, and Z. Quan, "Frequency-domain correlation: an asymptotically optimum approximation of quadratic likelihood ratio detectors," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Part 1), pp. 969-979, March 2010 [
link]


H. Sun, Y. Zhong, and W. Zhang, "Channel selection through a recommender system," (invited paper) in Proc. the 2010 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, Suzhou, China, October 2010 [link]

W. Zhang and H. V. Poor, "On minimax robust detection of stationary Gaussian signals in white Gaussian noise," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, TX, USA, June 2010 [
link]

L. Yu, W. Zhang, S. J. Shellhammer, and B. D. Rao, "Noncoherent diversity combining for spectrum sensing," in Proc. the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Singapore, April 2010 [
link]

W. Zhang, A. K. Sadek, C. Shen, and S. J. Shellhammer, "Adaptive spectrum sensing," (invited paper) in Proc. Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2010 [
link]

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2009

W. Zhang, S. Kotagiri, and J. N. Laneman, "On downlink transmission without transmit channel state information and with outage constraints," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 4240-4248, September 2009 [
link]


Z. Quan, S. J. Shellhammer, W. Zhang, and A. H. Sayed, "Spectrum sensing by cognitive radios at very low SNR," in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Honolulu, HI, USA, November 2009 [link]

D. Shen, W. Zhang, D. P. Reed, and A. B. Lippman, "On frame synchronization for multiple access channels," in Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM), aliated with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, June 2009 [
link]

S. J. Shellhammer, A. K. Sadek, and W. Zhang, "Technical challenges for cognitive radio in the TV white space spectrum," (invited paper) in Proc. Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2009 [
link]

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2008

W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Orthogonal codes for robust low-cost communication," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 5411-5426, December 2008 [link]; also archived as USC CSI Technical Report CSI-07-02-01



A. Sadek, W. Zhang, and S. Shellhammer, "Listen-before-talk versus treating interference as noise for spectrum sharing," in Proc. the Third IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) (Plenary Talk), Chicago, IL, USA, October 2008 [link]

W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "A spectrum-shaping perspective on cognitive radio," in Proc. the Third IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) (Plenary Talk), Chicago, IL, USA,  October 2008 [
link]

S. Vedantam, W. Zhang, and U. Mitra, "Joint communication and channel estimation: the two hop case," in Proc. the Forty-sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 2008 [
link]

W. Zhang, M. Stojanovic, and U. Mitra, "Analysis of a simple multihop underwater acoustic network," in Proc. the Third ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet), San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2008


W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "A spectrum-shaping perspective on cognitive radio - uncoded primary transmission case," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory(ISIT), Toronto, Canada, July 2008 [
link]

W. Zhang, S. Vedantam, and U. Mitra, "A constrained channel coding approach to joint communication and channel estimation," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, July 2008 [
link]

W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Channel-adaptive frequency-domain relay processing in multicarrier multihop transmission," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, NV, USA, March-April 2008[
link]

W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Orthogonal codes for robust low-cost communication," (invited paper) in Proc. Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA, January-February 2008 [
link]

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2007

W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "Benefits of spatial correlation for multi-antenna non-coherent communication over fading channels at low SNR," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 887-896, March 2007 [link]. Errata (for correcting a production error) appeared in Vol. 8, No. 12, pp. 6143, December 2009 [link]


W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "How good is PSK for peak-limited fading channels in the low-SNR regime?" IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 236-251, January 2007 [link]. Errata (for correcting a production error) appeared in Vol. 55, No. 12, pp. 5848, December 2009 [link]



W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Transmitted-reference UWB: a digital approach," (invited paper) in Proc. the Forty-First Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 2007 [link]

W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "On outage behavior of wideband slow-fading channels," in Proc. the Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 2007


W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "A delay-reliability analysis for multihop underwater acoustic communication," in Proc. the Second ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 2007


S. Vedantam, W. Zhang, U. Mitra, and A. Sabharwal, "Joint channel estimation and data transmission: achievable rates," in Proc. 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, September 2007
[link]

W. Zhang and U. Mitra, "Multihopping strategies: an error-exponent comparison," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, June 2007 [link]


W. Zhang, S. Kotagiri, and J. N. Laneman, "Writing on dirty paper with resizing and its application to quasi-static fading broadcast channels," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, June 2007 [
link]

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2006 and earlier

W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "An induced additive-noise model for memoryless Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 1756-1764, April 2006 [
link]


W. Zhang, S. Kotagiri, and J. N. Laneman, "Information transmission over the postal channel with and without feedback," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle, WA, USA, July 2006 [link]

W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "How good is phase-shift keying for peak-limited Rayleigh fading channels in the low-SNR regime?" in Proc. 43rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 2005

W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "Recursive training with unitary modulation for correlated block-fading MIMO channels," in Proc. 6th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), New York City, NY, USA, June 2005 [
link]

W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "An induced additive-noise model for non-coherent discrete-time memoryless Rayleigh fading channels," in Proc. 39th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, USA, March 2005


W. Zhang and J. N. Laneman, "Benefits of correlated MIMO schemes for wideband communication," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, IL, USA, July 2004 [
link]

W. Zhang, "Stabilization of networked control systems over a sharing link using ALOHA," in Proc. 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, HI, USA, December 2003 [
link]


W. Zhang and J. Yang, "Research on MAS-based network congestion control," Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Science Edition) (Chinese), Vol. 4, pp. 6-11, October 2002

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