• Our group is funded by Satellite Radio Mornitoring Center (SRMC) through the Korea Communications Agency (KCA) since Apr. 2025.

• Our paper appeared in a list of Title Story Articles selected for display at the top of the hompage of the journal Electronics from the Second Half of 2024. 

• 차세대 통신 및 지능시스템 연구실(NCISL) 학석연계과정 졸업생 김가영, 김나현 학생의 LIG Nex1 신입 공개채용 합격 (Dec. 2024)을 축하합니다.

• 차세대 통신 및 지능시스템 연구실(NCISL) 학석연계과정 졸업생 김가영 학생의 삼성전자 DX부문 신입사원 채용 합격 (Dec. 2024)을 축하합니다.

• 차세대 통신 및 지능시스템 연구실(NCISL) 학부연구생 졸업생 권민성 학생의 현대모비스 공개 채용 합격 (Dec. 2024)을 축하합니다.

• The paper entitled "Recent Trend of Rate-Splitting Multiple Access-Assisted Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems" has been accepted to Electronics (IF:2.9), Nov. 2024.

• 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 우수논문상 수상 (논문제목: 6G 통신에서의 안테나 결함 탐지 기반 다중 사용자 MIMO 시스템 성능 분석), 2024년도 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 (저자: 김가영, 김나현, 장석빈, 이병주 (인천대)) (Nov. 2024) 

• The paper entitled "Transformer-assisted Parametric CSI Feedback for mmWave Massive MIMO Systems," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF:8.9, Q1), Sep. 2024. 

• Gayeong Kim, Nahyun Kim, and Byungju Lee have been awarded the TPC's Choice Award at the IWMCA 2024, Sapporo, Japan, in Aug. 2024.

• The paper entitled "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for GEO-LEO Coexisting Satellite Systems: A Traffic-Aware Throughput Maximization Precoder Design," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF:6.1, Q1), Aug. 2024.

• Our group is funded by ICT Challenge and Advanced Network of HRD (ICAN) through the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) since Jul. 2024.

• The paper entitled "RIS-Empowered LEO Satellite Networks for 6G: Promising Usage Scenarios and Future Directions " has been accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine (IF:11.2, Q1), Feb. 2024.

• The paper entitled "Key Technologies for 6G-Enabled Smart Sustainable City" has been accepted to Electronics (IF:2.9), Jan. 2024.

• Our group is funded by Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) through the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) since Jul. 2023.

• The paper entitled "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G Networks: Ten Promising Scenarios and Applications" has been accepted to IEEE Network Magazine (IF:10.294, Q1), Jul. 2023.

• Our group is funded by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) since Jun. 2023.

• The paper entitled "Autoencoders with Exponential Deviation Loss for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection" has been accepted to Pattern Recognition Letters (IF:4.757, Q1), May 2023.

• The paper entitled "Phase-Shift Design and Channel Modeling for Focused Beams in IRS-Assisted FSO Systems," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF:5.978, Q1), Mar. 2023.

• The paper entitled "Towards 6G Hyper-Connectivity: Vision, Challenges, and Key Enabling Technologies," has been accepted to IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (IF:3.6), Jan. 2023.

• The paper entitled "Max-Min Fairness Precoder Design for Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Impact of Imperfect Channel Knowledge," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF:5.978, Q1), Sep. 2022.

• Prof. Byungju Lee and his group will move to the Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Incheon National Unviersity, Korea (March 2022).

• The paper entitled "User-Number Threshold-based Base Station On/Off Control for Maximizing Coverage Probability," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF:5.978, Q1), Jan. 2022.

• Byungju Lee has been awarded J-KICS Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 논문지 우수논문상) in Nov. 2021, together with Prof. Namyoon Lee, Jae-Hyun Kim, Wonjae Shin.

• Our group is funded by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) since Jun. 2021.

• The paper entitled "A Survey of LEO Satellite Networks for 5G and Beyond: Channel Modeling, Research Trends, and Open Challenges," has been accepted to The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (J-KICS), May 2021.

• Our group is funded by KICS (한국통신학회 신임교원 학술연구 지원 사업) since May 2021. [한국통신학회]

• Our group is funded by the four-stage BK21 (Brain Korea 21) project of Ministry of Education since Mar. 2021.

• Our group is funded by the Grand ICT Research Center from IITP since Jan. 2021.

• Byungju Lee is serving for IEEE WCNC 2021 as a TPC member.

• The paper entitled "On the Degrees-of-Freedom for Relay-Aided MIMO Interference Channels with Partial and Delayed CSI," has been accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IF: 4.66, Q1), Oct. 2020.

• The paper entitled "Beamformer Design for Physical Layer Security in Dual-Polarized Millimeter Wave Channels," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF:5.379, Q1), Jun. 2020.

• Byungju Lee and co-authors Wonjae Shin (Ajou University, Korea), Mojtaba Vaezi (Villanova University, USA), David J. Love (Purdue Universtiy, USA), Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea), and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA) have been selected as the 2020 recipients of the IEEE Communication Society's Fred W. Ellersick Prize. The award is given to the most influential paper in any Communications Society magazine in the previous 3 calendar years. [전자신문,삼성리서치 등]

• The paper entitled "Bind Interference Alignment with ISI: A New Look at OFDM for K-User Interference Channels." has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IF:5.028, Q1), May. 2020.

• The paper entitled "Adaptive Multiuser Transmission using Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment with User Selection," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF:5.379, Q1), May. 2020.

• Our two papers appeared in IEEE Best Reading in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access - Topic: Overview and Tutorials and Multiple Antenna Aided NOMA (Apr. 2020).

• Byungju Lee is serving for 6th NOMA Workshop at IEEE ICC 2020 as a TPC member.

• Byungju Lee is serving for Track 1: Phy & Fundamentals for IEEE WCNC 2020 as a TPC member.

우리 연구실에서는 차세대 무선  통신 시스템에 대한 전반적인 연구를 수행하고 있습니다. 특히 6세대 이동 통신 시스템을 위한 원천 기술을 연구하고 있습니다.  AI 적용 통신 기술, 무인 항공기 및  위성 활용 등 네트워크 토폴로지 혁신 기술에 대해서도 연구를 수행중입니다.

주요 연구분야: 6G 통신 시스템 관련 통신 이론 연구

• UAV 및 LEO 위성 등이 포함되는 네트워크에서의 통신 기술

• 머신러닝 기반 통신 시스템 설계

• 비직교 다중사용자 접속 기술 (NOMA)

• 다중 사용자 시스템에서의 간섭 제어 기술

Our laboratory focuses on the research filed in 6G Wireless Communication Systems with emphasis on signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications. Our current research topics include, but not limited to, the following:

• Advanced Network Topology including UAV and LEO Satellites

• Machine Learning based Communication System Design

• Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)

• Interference Management for Multiuser Systems