已发表论文

[B1] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx, "Multiple Access Techniques.", In: X. Lin, N. Lee (eds) 5G and Beyond. Springer, Cham.

[J15] A. Mishra, Y. Mao, O. Dizdar, B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink multiuser MIMO: Precoder optimization and PHY-layer design," in IEEE Transactions on Communications (early access). [arXiv]

[J14] G. Zhou, Y. Mao, B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access for multi-antenna downlink communication systems: spectral and energy efficiency tradeoff," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (early access). [arXiv]

[J13] C. Xu, B. Clerckx, S. Chen, Y. Mao, J. Zhang, "Rate-splitting multiple access for multi-antenna joint radar and communications," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1332-1347, Nov. 2021. [arXiv]

[J12] O. Dizdar, Y. Mao and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access to mitigate the curse of mobility in (massive) MIMO networks," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 6765-6780, Oct. 2021. [arXiv]

[J11] R. Reifert, A. A. Ahmad, Y. Mao, A. Sezgin, and B. Clerckx. "Rate-splitting multiple access in cache-aided cloud-radio access networks." in Frontiers in Communications and Networks, vol. 2, p. 40, 2021. [arXiv]

[J10] A. A. Ahmad, Y. Mao, A. Sezgin, B. Clerckx, "Rate splitting multiple access in C-RAN: A scalable and robust design," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5727-5743, Sept. 2021. [arXiv]

[J9] B. Clerckx, Y. Mao, R. Schober, E. Jorswieck, D. J. Love, J. Yuan, L. Hanzo, G. Y. Li, E. G. Larsson, and G. Caire., "Is NOMA efficient in multi-antenna networks? A critical look at next generation multiple access techniques," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 2, pp. 1310-1343, 2021. [arXiv]

[J8] Y. Huang, C. Hao, Y. Mao, and F. Zhou, "Dynamic resource configuration for low-power IoT networks: A multi-objective reinforcement learning method," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 2285-2289, July 2021. [arXiv]

[J7] Y. Mao, E. Piovano and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access for overloaded cellular Internet of Things," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 4504-4519, July 2021. [arXiv]

[J6] Y. Mao and B. Clerckx, "Beyond dirty paper coding for multi-antenna broadcast channel with partial CSIT: A rate-splitting approach," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 6775-6791, Nov. 2020. [arXiv]

[J5] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx, J. Zhang, V. O. K. Li and M. A. Arafah, "Max-min fairness of K-user cooperative rate-splitting in MISO broadcast channel with user relaying," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 6362-6376, Oct. 2020. [arXiv]

[J4] B. Clerckx, Y. Mao, R. Schober and H. V. Poor, "Rate-splitting unifying SDMA, OMA, NOMA, and multicasting in MISO broadcast channel: A simple two-user rate analysis," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 349-353, March 2020. [arXiv]

[J3] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx and V. O. K. Li, "Rate-splitting for multi-antenna non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmission: Spectral and energy efficiency analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 8754-8770, Dec. 2019. [arXiv]

[J2] J. Zhang, B. Clerckx, J. Ge and Y. Mao, "Cooperative rate splitting for MISO broadcast channel with user relaying, and performance benefits over cooperative NOMA," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 1678-1682, Nov. 2019. [arXiv]

[J1] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx, and V.O.K. Li, "Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink communication systems: bridging, generalizing, and outperforming SDMA and NOMA," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2018, no. 1, p. 133, May 2018. [arXiv]

[C14] O. Dizdar, Y. Mao, Y. Xu, P. Zhu, and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access for enhanced URLLC and eMBB in 6G." accepted by International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2021. [arXiv]

[C13] B. Matthiesen, Y. Mao, P. Popovski and B. Clerckx, "Globally optimal beamforming for rate splitting multiple access," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021, pp. 4775-4779. [Poster and Presentation] [arXiv]

[C12] L. Yin, B. Clerckx and Y. Mao, "Rate-splitting multiple access for multi-antenna broadcast channels with statistical CSIT," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 2021. [arXiv]

[C11] Y. Mao and B. Clerckx, "Dirty paper coded rate-splitting for non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmission with partial CSIT," 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2020 (invited paper). [arXiv]

[C10] O. Dizdar, Y. Mao, W. Han and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access: A new frontier for the PHY Layer of 6G," IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall), 2020. [arXiv]

[C9] C. Xu, B. Clerckx, S. Chen, Y. Mao and J. Zhang, "Rate-splitting multiple access for multi-antenna joint communication and radar transmissions," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, 2020. [arXiv]

[C8] O. Dizdar, Y. Mao, W. Han and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink multi-antenna communications: Physical layer design and link-level simulations," IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), London, United Kingdom, 2020. [arXiv]

[C7] A. A. Ahmad, Y. Mao, A. Sezgin and B. Clerckx, "Rate splitting multiple access in C-RAN," IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2020. [arXiv]

[C6] P. Li, M. Chen, Y. Mao, Z. Yang, B. Clerckx and M. Shikh-Bahaei, "Cooperative rate-splitting for secrecy sum-rate enhancement in multi-antenna broadcast channels," IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), London, United Kingdom, 2020. [arXiv]

[C5] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx and V. O. K. Li, "Rate-splitting for multi-user multi-antenna wireless information and power transfer," IEEE 20th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, France, 2019. [arXiv]

[C4] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx and V. O. K. Li, "Rate-splitting multiple access for coordinated multi-point joint transmission," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, 2019. [arXiv]

[C3] S. Zubair, S. Jangsher, Y. Mao and V. O. K. Li, "Blockage-aware power allocation and relay selection in millimeter-wave small cell network," 2019 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2019.

[C2] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx and V. O. K. Li, "Energy efficiency of rate-splitting multiple access, and performance benefits over SDMA and NOMA," 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Lisbon, 2018. [arXiv]

[C1] Y. Mao, B. Clerckx and V. O. K. Li, "Rate-splitting for multi-antenna non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmission," IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2018. [arXiv]

Submitted Journal Papers

[SJ4] A. Mishra, Y. Mao, Luca Sanguinetti, and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting assisted massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO," arXiv:2201.07508 (2022). [arXiv]

[SJ3] Y. Mao, O. Dizdar, B. Clerckx, R. Schober, P. Popovski, and H. V. Poor, "Rate-splitting multiple access: Fundamentals, survey, and future research trends," arXiv:2201.03192 (2022). [arXiv]

[SJ2] S. Ma, H. Zhou, Y. Mao, X. Liu, Y. Wu, B. Clerckx, Y. Wang, and S. Li, "Robust beamforming design for rate splitting multiple access-aided MISO visible light communications," arXiv:2108.07014 (2021). [arXiv]

[SJ1] Y. Xu, Y. Mao, O. Dizdar, and B. Clerckx, "Rate-splitting multiple access with finite blocklength for short-packet and low-latency Downlink communications," arXiv:2105.06198 (2021). [arXiv]

Submitted Conference Papers

[SC3] H. Xia, Y. Mao, B. Clerckx, X. Zhou, S. Han, and C. Li "Weighted sum-rate maximization for rate-splitting multiple access based secure communication," arXiv:2201.08472 (2022). [arXiv]

[SC2] T. Fang, Y. Mao, S. Shen, Z. Zhu, and B. Clerckx, "Fully connected reconfigurable intelligent surface aided rate-splitting multiple access for multi-user multi-antenna transmission," arXiv:2201.07048 (2022). [arXiv]

[SC1] S. Huang, P. Zhang, Y. Mao, L. Lian, and Y. Shi, "Wireless federated learning over MIMO networks: Joint device scheduling and beamforming design," arXiv:2111.00470 (2021). [arXiv]