Ya-Feng Liu;Tsung-Hui Chang;Mingyi Hong;Anthony Man-Cho So;Eduard A. Jorswieck;Wei Yu
{"title":"Guest Editorial Advanced Optimization Theory and Algorithms for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks","authors":"Ya-Feng Liu;Tsung-Hui Chang;Mingyi Hong;Anthony Man-Cho So;Eduard A. Jorswieck;Wei Yu","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3443808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2024.3443808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 11","pages":"2987-2991"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10721218","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142447104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satellites Beam Hopping Scheduling for Interference Avoidance","authors":"Huimin Deng;Kai Ying;Daquan Feng;Lin Gui;Yuanzhi He;Xiang-Gen Xia","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459083","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459083","url":null,"abstract":"The deployment of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites megaconstellations presents a promising way for achieving global coverage and service, attributed to their comparatively low round-trip latency and launch costs. However, this surge in LEO satellite launches exacerbates the scarcity of the limited spectrum resources. Spectrum sharing between satellite constellations and terrestrial networks and beam hopping (BH) technology emerge as viable strategies to mitigate this spectrum shortage. To enhance spectrum efficiency and avoid serious inter-system interference, we investigate the beam hopping scheduling of satellites for interference avoidance. The beam hopping scheduling of the integrated satellite-terrestrial wireless networks system is formulated as throughput-driven beam hopping (TDBH) problem and satisfaction-rate-driven beam hopping (SDBH) problem, respectively. In particular, we decompose the TDBH problem into two sub-problems by relaxation, and a genetic algorithm (GA) is introduced to handle the SDBH problem. The impact of channel conditions and traffic load intensity on the satellite system throughput is analyzed in TDBH simulation. As for SDBH optimization problem, the simulation results show that the proposed GA algorithm improves the average traffic satisfaction rate by 16.96% at least, compared with other benchmarks and suits to scenarios with different traffic demands and fading channel conditions.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 12","pages":"3647-3658"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10713888","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zheyi Chen;Junjie Zhang;Geyong Min;Zhaolong Ning;Jie Li
{"title":"Traffic-Aware Lightweight Hierarchical Offloading Toward Adaptive Slicing-Enabled SAGIN","authors":"Zheyi Chen;Junjie Zhang;Geyong Min;Zhaolong Ning;Jie Li","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459020","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459020","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (SAGIN) empower Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) with wider communication coverage and more flexible network access. However, the fluctuating user traffic and constrained computing architecture seriously hinder the Quality-of-Service (QoS) and resource utilization in SAGIN. Existing solutions generally depend on prior knowledge or adopt static resource provisioning, lacking adaptability and resulting in serious system overheads. To address these important challenges, we propose THOAS, a novel Traffic-aware lightweight Hierarchical Offloading framework towards Adaptive Slicing-enabled SAGIN. First, we innovatively separate SAGIN into Communication Access Platforms (CAPs) and Computation Offloading Platforms (COPs). Next, we design a new self-attention-based prediction method to accurately capture the traffic changes on each platform, enabling adaptive slice resource adjustments. Finally, we develop an improved deep reinforcement learning method based on proximal clipping with dynamic confidence intervals to reach optimal offloading. Notably, we employ knowledge distillation to compress offloading policies into lightweight networks, enhancing their adaptability in resource-limited SAGIN. Using real-world datasets of user traffic, extensive experiments are conducted. The results show that the THOAS can accurately predict traffic and make adaptive resource adjustments and offloading decisions, which outperforms other benchmark methods on multiple metrics under various scenarios.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 12","pages":"3536-3550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142374308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Luo;Chi Zhang;Hongfang Yu;Zonghang Li;Gang Sun;Shouxi Luo
{"title":"Energy-Efficient Hierarchical Collaborative Learning Over LEO Satellite Constellations","authors":"Long Luo;Chi Zhang;Hongfang Yu;Zonghang Li;Gang Sun;Shouxi Luo","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459021","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459021","url":null,"abstract":"The hierarchical collaborative learning within Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, termed LEO-HCL, is gaining increasing popularity by integrating intra-orbit Inter-Satellite Links and orbital edge computing to alleviate the latency issues caused by intermittent satellite connectivity in satellite-ground training architectures. However, LEO-HCL systems are confronted with a triad of challenges: the variable topology induced by satellite mobility, limited onboard computing and communication resources, and stringent energy constraints. In response to these challenges, we propose an energy-efficient training algorithm called FedAAC, which adaptively optimizes both aggregation frequency and model compression ratio within the resource-constrained LEO network. We have conducted a theoretical analysis of model convergence and investigated the relationship between convergence, aggregation frequency, and model compression ratio. Building on this analysis, we offer an approximation algorithm that dynamically calculates the optimal aggregation frequency and compression ratio during the training process. Extensive simulations have demonstrated that FedAAC significantly outperforms existing methods, offering enhanced convergence speed and energy efficiency. Compared to prior solutions, FedAAC achieves a 60% reduction in energy consumption, a 70% decrease in training time, and a 52% lower communication overhead.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 12","pages":"3366-3379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142360309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FastTS: Enabling Fault-Tolerant and Time-Sensitive Scheduling in Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks","authors":"Guoyu Peng;Shuo Wang;Tao Huang;Fengtao Li;Kangzhe Zhao;Yudong Huang;Zehui Xiong","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459008","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3459008","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging space-terrestrial integrated network (STIN) assumes a pivotal role within the 6G vision, promising to deliver seamless global coverage and connectivity. Achieving advanced, high-reliability, and time-sensitive (TS) services in a resource-constrained and failure-prone space environment is critical, but also presents challenges. Existing space-terrestrial communication approaches either suffer from temporary link failures with unstable reliability, or intolerable service latency due to the extensive coverage and uneven traffic distribution. This paper presents FastTS, a heuristic resilient and performant scheduling strategy to achieve fault-tolerant and time-sensitive scheduling in futuristic STINs. First, we model the high-dynamic and failure-prone topology in space, and formulate the scheduling problem as a mixed non-linear problem with the objective of minimizing the average task completion time. To approach the optimal solution, joint time-variant routing and frame replication and elimination for reliability (FRER) redundancy under resource constraints are formally considered in our design. During the path-stable duration, FastTS prioritizes the multipath selection with higher redundancy scores, all while ensuring a bounded low latency for TS services based on time-sensitive networking (TSN) techniques. Specifically, our FastTS is divided into three phases: time-sensitive multipath generation (TMG), series-parallel redundancy scoring (SPRS), and SPRS-based time-variant routing (STR). Finally, simulation results show that FastTS exhibits outstanding performance improvements in terms of packet delay, scheduling success ratio, task completion time and packet loss rate, when compared to other state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 12","pages":"3551-3565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142313764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Communications Society Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447313","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 10","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10683990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Open Access Publishing","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447371","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 10","pages":"2986-2986"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10683991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447369","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 10","pages":"2985-2985"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10683992","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Yang;Mingzhe Chen;Yufei Blankenship;Jemin Lee;Zabih Ghassemlooy;Julian Cheng;Shiwen Mao
{"title":"Guest Editorial Positioning and Sensing Over Wireless Networks—Part II","authors":"Yang Yang;Mingzhe Chen;Yufei Blankenship;Jemin Lee;Zabih Ghassemlooy;Julian Cheng;Shiwen Mao","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3423628","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3423628","url":null,"abstract":"This is Part II of the double-part Special Issue (SI) on Positioning and Sensing Over Wireless Networks. The two-part SI aims to bring cutting-edge and novel contributions on positioning and sensing over wireless networks for future and emerging applications. The accepted 51 papers are arranged into eight groups: 1) fundamental performance analysis and optimization; 2) positioning and sensing with cellular networks; 3) positioning and sensing with WiFi networks; 4) positioning and sensing with emerging communication technologies; 5) positioning and sensing applications; 6) cooperative positioning and sensing; 7) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted positioning and sensing; and 8) privacy and security. The contributions made by the papers in Part II are summarized as follows, which correspond to the last four paper groups.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 10","pages":"2603-2607"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10683891","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447311","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3447311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":"42 10","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10683988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}