Research Area 01
Intelligent Wireless, Networking & Distributed Systems
5G/6GO-RANAI-RANSatellite and aerial networkingSpectrum sharingDigital twinsWireless securityNetwork optimization
Overview
xGI advances next-generation telecom networks, integrating intelligence directly into the radio access network, core, and protocols. It focuses on emerging O-RAN and AI-RAN architectures to enable more open, programmable, and adaptive networks that support ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and autonomous optimization. Research spans 5G/6G systems, satellite and aerial networks, wireless security, digital twins, resource management, and distributed network intelligence.
Affiliated Faculties
Affiliated Faculties
Highlighted Publications
- S. Hosseinalipour, S. S. Azam, C. G. Brinton, N. Michelusi, V. Aggarwal, D. J. Love, and H. Dai, “Multi-Stage Hybrid Federated Learning over Large-Scale Wireless Fog Networks,” IEEE Trans. Networking, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1569-1584, Aug. 2022. 2024 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize (Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking).
- Dara Ron and Kai Zeng. Wireless-Powered Multi-Channel Backscatter Communications Under Jamming: A Cooperative Reinforcement Learning Approach. WiseML ’24 (Best Paper Award).
- X. Lu, Z. Liu, L. Xiao, and H. Dai, “Reinforcement Learning-Based Personalized Differentially Private Federated Learning,” IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 465-477, 2025.
- W. Jeon, D. Ron and J.-R. Lee, “Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Active Sensing on a Bicycle for Vehicle Tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 75, pp. 1-14, 2026.
- Yu, Ruozhou, Guoliang Xue, Mehdi Bennis, Xianfu Chen, and Zhu Han. “HSDRAN: Hierarchical software-defined radio access network for distributed optimization.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 67, no. 9 (2017): 8623-8636.
- Mengning Li and Wenye Wang, “Hybrid Zone: Bridging Acoustic and Wi-Fi for Enhanced Gesture Recognition,” IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Best Paper Award), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024, pp. 981-990.
- Wang, Xiaojian, Ruozhou Yu, and Dejun Yang. “Wormholes in Space: Unveiling Wormhole Attack in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks.” In 2026 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 491-497. IEEE, 2026.
- Wang, Xiaojian, Ruozhou Yu, Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Qiushi Wei, Huayue Gu, and Zhouyu Li. “Space Booking: Enabling Performance-Critical Applications in Broadband Satellite Networks.” In 2025 IEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pp. 989-999. IEEE, 2025.
- Ganiyu, A., Gajjar, P., & Shah, V. K. (2025, June). AI5GTest: AI-Driven Specification-Aware Automated Testing and Validation of 5G O-RAN Components. In the 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (pp. 53-64).
- Z. Li, M. Chen, G. Li, X. Lin, and Y. Liu, “Map-Driven mmWave Link Quality Prediction with Spatial-Temporal Mobility Awareness,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2024.
- Gajjar, P., Khoja, M., Ganiyu, A., Juarez, M., Marina, M. K., Lehane, A., & Shah, V. K. (2025). Black-Box Evasion Attacks on Data-Driven Open RAN Apps: Tailored Design and Experimental Evaluation. Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, 3(CoNEXT4), 1-26.
- A. Gürses, M. L. Sichitiu, “Air-to-ground channel modeling for UAVs in rural areas”, in Proc. IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 1-6.
- H. Li, D. Xu, M. Chen, and Y. Liu, “Agentic Open RAN: A Deterministic and Auditable Framework for Intent-Driven Radio Control,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026.
- D. Lee, S. J. Maeng, O. Ozdemir, M. B. Pandian, and I. Guvenc, “Reliability of Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G-Based UAV RC Links in ISM Bands: Uplink Interference Asymmetry Analysis and HARQ Design”, IEEE Open J. Commun. Systems, Aug. 2025.
- T. Q. S. Quek, G. de la Roche, I. Guvenc, and M. Kountouris (Editors), “Small Cell Networks: Deployment, PHY Techniques, and Resource Management”, Cambridge University Press, April 2013.
- Y. He, G. Yu, and H. Dai, “Robustness in Wireless Distributed Learning: An Information-Theoretic Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 11243-11258, Nov. 2025.
- Mengning Li and Wenye Wang, “Synergizing Acoustic and Wi-Fi Signals for Device-Free Gesture Recognition,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 8167-8179, Sept. 2025.
- S. Masrur, I. Guvenc, and D. Lopez-Perez, “Energy-Efficient Sleep Mode Optimization in 5G mmWave Networks via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning”, IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw., Dec. 2025.
- Zhou, Fangtong, Sihao Liu, Xiaorui Liu, Ruozhou Yu, and Guoliang Xue. “Traffic engineering in large-scale networks with generalizable graph neural networks.” IEEE Transactions on Networking (2026).
- S. V. Villar, S. Singh, O. Ozdemir, M. L. Sichitiu, and I. Guvenc, “Real-World LoRaWAN Performance and Propagation Modeling Using UAV, Helikite, and Vehicle-Based Measurements”, in Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, Mar. 2026.
- Z. Zhang, Y. Liu, Z. Peng, M. Chen, D. Xu, and S. Cui, “Digital Twin-Assisted Data-Driven Optimization for Reliable Edge Caching in Wireless Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2024.
- Z. Li, X. Luo, M. Chen, C. Xu, S. Mao, and Y. Liu, “Contextual Combinatorial Beam Management via Online Probing for Multiple Access mmWave Wireless Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2025.
- A. Gurses, G. Reddy, S. Masrur, O. Ozdemir, I. Guvenc, M. L. Sichitiu, A. Sahin, A. Alkhateeb, M. Mushi, and R. Dutta. “Digital Twins and Testbeds for Supporting AI Research with Autonomous Vehicle Networks”, IEEE Commun. Mag., 2024.
- D. Ron, F. A. Yusufzai, S. Kwakye, S. Roy, N. Sastry and V. K. Shah, “Time-Dependent Network Topology Optimization for LEO Satellite Constellations,” IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2025.
- Chiejina, A., Muruganandham, D., Chaudhary, V., Chowdhury, K., & Shah, V. K. (2026). O-DSS: An Open Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Framework for Cellular-Radar Coexistence in Mid-band Frequencies., IEEE INFOCOM 2026-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 1-10) (to appear). Preprint available at arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02571.
- Yu, Ruozhou, Guoliang Xue, Yinxin Wan, Jian Tang, Dejun Yang, and Yusheng Ji. “Robust resource provisioning in time-varying edge networks.” In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, pp. 21-30. 2020.
- J. Zhang, X. He, and H. Dai, “Speeding Up Distributed Learning via Sparse and Flexible Coded Computing,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 3167-3180, Apr. 2025.
- M. F. Pervej, R. Jin, and H. Dai, “Resource Constrained Vehicular Edge Federated Learning with Highly Mobile Connected Vehicles,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1825-1844, Jun. 2023.
- Mengning Li, Haochen Zhu, Wenye Wang, and Eylem Ekici, “mSAC: Enhancing Localization with mmWave Sensing and Orthogonal Signals,” IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, London, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 1-10.
- Z. Zhang, D. Chen, A. Gao, M. Wang, M. Chen, M. Fang, X. Yang, and Y. Liu, “Network Digital Untwinning: Towards Backward Optimization of Digital Twins,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026.
- Guillem Reus-Muns, Pratheek S. Upadhyaya, Utku Demir, Nathan Stephenson, Nasim Soltani, Vijay K. Shah, and Kaushik R. Chowdhury, “SenseORAN: O-RAN-Based Radar Detection in the CBRS Band,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 326-338, Feb. 2024.
- M. Rahman, S. J. Maeng, I. Guvenc, C. W. Wong, M. L. Sichitiu, J. A. Abrahamson, and A. Bhuyan, “UAV-Based 3D Spectrum Sensing Using Kriging and Matrix Completion: Insights on Altitude, Bandwidth, Trajectory, and Antenna Patterns”, IEEE Sensors, May 2026.
- A. Gurses, M. L. Sichitiu, “ACHEM: A Real-Time Digital Twin Framework with Channel and Radio Emulation”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04742, 2026.
- J. Kesler, A. Gürses, O. Özdemir, M. Mushi, M. L. Sichitiu, I. Güvenç, R. Dutta, Vuk Marojevic, “Demonstration of an Interactive Search and Rescue Scenario in AERPAW”, in Proc. IEEE Military Commun. Conf. (MILCOM), Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2025.
- Mengning Li and Wenye Wang, “UNI-FI: Integrated Multi-Task Wi-Fi Sensing,” IEEE INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Best Paper Award), Tokyo, Japan, 2026, pp. 1-10.
- D. Ron and J.-R. Lee, “Intelligent Energy Efficiency and Service Reliability Optimization for UAV-Aided Terrestrial Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2026.
- D. Ron and J.-R. Lee, “DNN-Based Dynamic Transmit Power Control for V2V Communication Underlaid Cellular Uplink,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Nov. 2022.
- Ghosh, U., Chiejina, A., Stephenson, N., Shah, V. K., Shakkottai, S., & Bharadia, D. (2024). SPARC: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Resource Control for Multi-site Spectrum Management in NextG Cellular Networks. Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2(CoNEXT4), 1-18.
- Y. Zeng, I. Guvenc, R. Zhang, G. Geraci, and D. Matolak (Editors), “UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond”, IEEE-Wiley, Feb. 2021.
- Rui Zou and Wenye Wang, “FLuMe: Understanding Differential Spectrum Mobility Features in High Resolution,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 14186-14200, Dec. 2024.