Thesis

Yi Zhang, "Intelligent Millimeter-wave Link Configuration and Deep Learning-Based Receiver Design", The University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 08, 2021. [Link][Slides]

Technical Papers

1. Yi Zhang and R. W. Heath, "Multi-armed Bandits for Link Configuration in Millimeter-wave Networks", IEEE Vehicular Magzine, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 39-49, June 2023. [Link][Code]

2. Yi Zhang and R. W. Heath, "Reinforcement Learning-based Joint User Scheduling and Link Configuration in Millimeter-wave Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 5, pp 3038-3054, May 2023.  [Link][Code]

3. Yi Zhang, Soumya Basu, Sanjay Shakkottai, and Robert W. Heath Jr. 2021. MmWave Codebook Selection in Rapidly-Varying Channels via Multinomial Thompson Sampling. In Mobihoc '21: The Twenty-Second ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, July 26, 2021, Shanghai, China. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10 pages. (Best Paper Award Runners-up) [Link][Full version][Slides][Talk]

4. Yi Zhang, A. Doshi, R. Liston, W. Tan, X. Zhu, J. G. Andrews, and R. W. Heath, "DeepWiPHY: Deep learning-based receiver design and dataset for IEEE 802.11ax systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1596-1611, Mar. 2021. [Link][Code and Dataset]

5. Yi Zhang, Kartik Patel, Sanjay Shakkottai, and Robert W. Heath Jr.. 2019. Side-information-aided Non-coherent Beam Alignment Design for Millimeter Wave Systems. In MobiHoc '19: The Twentieth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, July 02-05, 2019, Catania, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. (Best Paper Award Finalists) [GitHub][Link][Paper][Slides]

6. Yi Zhang, H.-M. Wang, Z. Ding, and M. H. Lee, "Non-orthogonal multiple access assisted multi-region geocast,''  IEEE Access, vol. 6 pp. 2340-2355, no. 99, 2018. [Link]

7. Yi Zhang, H.-M. Wang, T.-X. Zheng, and Q. Yang, "Energy-efficient transmission design in non-orthogonal multiple access,'' IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 33, pp. 2852-2857, Mar. 2017. [Link][Code]

8. Yi Zhang, T.-X. Zheng, Q. Yang, H.-M. Wang, B. Wang and Z. Li, "The application of non-orthogonal multiple access in 5G physical-layer multi-region geocast,'' IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), San Francisco, US, Mar. 2017.[Link]

9. Yi Zhang, Q. Yang, T.-X. Zheng, Y. Ju and H.-M. Wang, "Energy efficiency optimization in cognitive radio inspired non-orthogonal multiple access,'' IEEE Annual Symposium Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2016. [Link]

10. Yi Zhang, H.-M. Wang, Q. Yang, and Z. Ding, "Secrecy sum rate maximization in non-orthogonal multiple access," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 930-933, May 2016. [Link][Code]