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• Sep. 29th 2020, Ms.c. Xiaopeng Yuan and Ms.c. Tianyu Yang and Dr. Yulin Hu have a new accepted conference paper in IEEE TWC. The title of the paper is Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled Multiuser Wireless Power Transfer with Nonlinear Energy Harvesting.
• Sep. 22nd 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks.
• Sep. 19th 2020, Dr. Qinwei He, Katrin Gartenmeister, Ms.c. Yao Zhu, Dr. Yulin Hu have a new accepted conference paper of IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Workshop. The title of the paper is Goodput Maximization in Slotted ALOHA Networks Operating with Finite Blocklength Codes.
• Aug. 24th 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE WCNC 2021.
• Aug. 10th 2020, Ms.c. Yao Zhu, Ms.c. Tianyu Yang, Dr. Yulin Hu, Wanting Gao have a new accepted conference paper of IEEE GLOBECOM 2020. The title of the paper is Optimal-Delay-Guaranteed Energy Efficient Cooperative Offloading in VEC Networks.
• Jun. 20th 2020, Dr. Qinwei He, Paul Zheng, Ms.c. Yao. Zhu, Dr. Yulin Hu have a new accepted paper of PIMRC 2020 workshop. The title of the paper is Multi-Device Low-Latency Internet of Things Networks with Blind Retransmissions in the Finite Blocklength Regime.
• Mar. 25th 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu, Ms.c. Guodong Sun have a new accepted journal paper at IEEE TVT. The title of the paper is Optimal Resource Allocation in Ground Wireless Networks Supporting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Transmissions.
• Feb. 25th 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu, Ms.c. Xiaopeng Yuan and Ms.c. Tianyu Yang have a new accepted journal paper at IEEE TVT. The title of the paper is On the Convex Properties of Wireless Power Transfer with Nonlinear Energy Harvesting.
• Feb. 04th 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE PIMRC 2020.
• Jan. 13th 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE GLOBECOM 2020.
• Jan. 07th 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE ICC2020 NOMA5G-WS and IEEE ICC2020 ULMC6GN.
• Jan. 01st 2020, Dr. Yulin Hu has a new accepted journal paper at IEEE TVT. The title of the paper is Throughput of low-latency communications with QoS constraints and finite blocklength codes.
• Nov. 15th 2019, Ms.c. Xiaopeng Yuan becomes a PhD candidate in ISEK.
• Mar. 26th 2019, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE VTC2019-Fall.
• Mar. 11th 2019, Ms.c. Yao Zhu and Dr. Yulin Hu have a new accepted papar of IEEE ICC 2019 B5GWorkshop, with title: Reliability-Optimal Offloading in Multi-Server Edge Computing Networks with Transmissions Carried by Finite Blocklength Codes.
• Feb. 25th 2019, Ms.c. Qinwei and Dr. Yulin have a new accepted journal paper at Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. The title of the paper is A Seysen's Algorithm based Incremental Lattice Reduction.
• Jan. 25th 2019, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Wireless Communications.
• Jan. 25th 2019, Mr. Xiaopeng Yuan and Mr. Wepeng Zhao have been successfully given their master thesis talks. Congratulations!
• Jan. 18th 2019, Ms.c. Yao Zhu and Dr. Yulin Hu have a new accepted conference papar of IEEE WCNC 2019, with title: Throughput Maximization of Low-Latency Communication with imperfect CSI in Finite Blocklength Regime.
• Jan. 18th 2019, Ms.c. Yao Zhu and Dr. Yulin Hu have a new accepted conference papar of IEEE WCNC 2019, with title: Delay Minimization Offloading for Interdependent Tasks in Energy-Aware Cooperative MEC Networks.
• Jan. 18th 2019, Ms.c. Tianyu Yang, Dr. Yulin Hu and Mr. Xiaopeng Yuan have a new accepted conference papar of IEEE WCNC 2019, with title: Genetic Algorithm based UAV Trajectory Design in Wireless Power Transfer Systems.
• Nov. 30th 2018, Ms.c. Qinwei He has submitted his dissertation to the EE & IT Faculty.
• Nov. 27th 2018, Dr. Yulin Hu serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
• Nov. 21st 2018, Ms.c. Qinwei and Dr. Yulin have a new accepted journal paper at EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. The title of the paper is Resource Allocation for Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications in Sparse Code Multiple Access Networks.
• Sep. 07th 2018, Dr. Yulin Hu has been invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE WCNC 2019.
• Sep. 06th 2018, Dr. Yulin Hu and Ms.c. Yao Zhu have a new accepted journal paper at IEEE JSAC. The title of the paper is SWIPT-Enabled Relaying in URLLC Networks Operating with Finite Blocklength Codes.
• Aug. 1st 2018, Mr. Yunzhao Luo has registered his master thesis with title: MmWave-enabled UAV networks.
• July 15th, Mr. Xiaopeng Yuan has registered his master thesis with title: the optimal trajectory design for UAV-assisted communication networks.
• July 1st 2018, Ms.c. Yao Zhu becomes a PhD candidate in ISEK.
• Mr. Weipeng Zhao has registered his master thesis: Optimal design of edge computing networks.
• March 1st 2018, Mr. Guodong Sun becomes a HiWi in ISEK Research Group.
• March 15th, Mr. Xiaopeng Yuan becomes a HiWi in ISEK Research Group.
• Jan. 1st 2018, Dr. Yulin Hu serves as an editor of Physical Communication.
• Nov. 1st 2017, Ms.c. Tianyu Yang becomes a PhD candidate in TI Institute.

Research Interests and Current Results in -- Advanced Wireless Networks in Smart Cities

Realtime Cities: Advanced reliable and low-latency wireless communications

• Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications
• Delay-aware massive machine type communications
• QoS-constrained performance in the finite blocklength regime

    Recent resuts (since 2018)
• Y. Zhu, Y. Hu, Z. Chang, A. Schmeink, "Throughput Maximization of Low-Latency Communication with imperfect CSI in Finite Blocklength Regime," IEEE WCNC 2019.
• Y. Hu, C. Schnelling, M. C. Gursoy, A. Schmeink, "Multi-Relay-Assisted Low-Latency High-Reliability Communications with Best Single Relay Selection", IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 7630-7642, Aug. 2019.
• Y. Hu, Y. Li, M. C. Gursoy, S. Velipasalar, A. Schmeink, "Throughput of Low-Latency Communications with QoS Constraints and Finite Blocklength Codes", IEEE Trans. Commun., under review.
• Q. He, Y. Hu, A. Schmeink, "Resource Allocation for Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications in Sparse Code Multiple Access Networks," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, to appear.
• Y. Hu, M. C. Gursoy and A. Schmeink, "Relaying-Enabled Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications in 5G", in IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 62-68, March-April 2018.
• Y. Hu, M. Serror, K. Wehrle and J. Gross, "Finite Blocklength Performance of Cooperative Multi-Terminal Wireless Industrial Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 5778-5792, July. 2018.
• Y. Hu, J. Gross and A. Schmeink, "Optimal Scheduling of Reliability-Constrained Relaying System under Outdated CSI in the Finite Blocklength Regime", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 6146-6155, July. 2018

Green Cities: Energy-aware wireless communication networks

• Optimal power allocation and energy-efficient designs
• Optimal design for wireless power transfer enabled communication networks
• Renewable energy (MmWave/solar) enabled UAV communications

    Recent resuts (since 2018)
• Y. Hu, Y. Zhu, M. C. Gursoy, A. Schmeink, "SWIPT-Enabled Relaying in IoT Networks Operating with Finite Blocklength Codes", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 1-16, Feb. 2019.
• Y. Hu, M. Ozmen, M. C. Gursoy, A. Schmeink, "Optimal Power Allocation for QoS-Constrained Downlink Multi-User Networks in the Finite Blocklength Regime", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.17, no.9, pp. 5827-5840, July 2018.
• Y. Hu M. Ozmen, M. C. Gursoy and A. Schmeink,"Optimal Power Allocation for QoS-Constrained Downlink Networks with Finite Blocklength codes ", IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
• Y. Hu, M. C. Gursoy, A. Schmeink, "Optimal Power Allocation for Amplify and Forward Relaying with Finite Blocklength Codes and QoS Constraints", IEEE VTC 2018-Spring, Porto, Portugal

Intelligent Cities: Computing and machine learning in wireless networks

• Mobile edge computing networks: delay-constrained and energy efficient offloading designs.
• Vehicular edge computing networks: scheduling and cooperative offloading.
• Machine learning based designs for advanced wireless networks

    Recent resuts (since 2018)
• Y. Zhu, Y. Hu, T. Yang, A. schmeink, "Reliability-Optimal Offloading in Multi-Server Edge Computing Networks with Transmissions Carried by Finite Blocklength Codes", IEEE ICC 2019 workshop.
• T. Yang, Y. Zhu, Y. Hu, R. Mathar, "Energy Minimization of Delay-Constrained Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks", IEEE WCNC 2019 workshop.
• Y. Zhu, Y. Hu, A. Schmeink, "Optimal Delay Minimization Offoading for Inter-Depended Tasks in Energy-Aware Cooperative Edge Computing Networks," IEEE WCNC 2019.
• Y. Hu, A. Schmeink, "Delay-constrained communication in edge computing networks," IEEE SPAWC 2018, Kalamata, Greece.
• T. Yang, Y. Hu, M. C. Grusoy, A. Schmeink and R. Mathar, "Deep Reinforcement Learning based Resources Allocation in Edge Computing Networks," ISWCS 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, Invited Paper.

3D Cities: UAV-communication and UAV-assisted networks

• Coexistence of UAV-user with ground users
• UAV trajectory design in communication and WPT networks.
• Joint design of optimal UAV 3D location and scheduling/resource allocation

    Recent resuts (since 2018)
• Y. Hu, X. Yuan, J. Xu and A. Schmeink, "Optimal 1D Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled Multiuser Wireless Power Transfer," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 5674-5688, Aug. 2019.
• T. Yang, Y. Hu, X. Yuan and R. Mathar, "Genetic Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer Networks," IEEE WCNC 2019, accpted to appear.

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