Publications

Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, and Xiang Cheng, Index Modulation for OFDM Communications Systems. Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 2021. 

Xuan Chen, Qiang Li, and Miaowen Wen, ‘Modulation Techniques for NGMA/NOMA’,  in Next Generation Multiple Access. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2024. 

Lei Zhang, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Guangyuan Zheng, and Lixia Xiao, “Enhancing Generalized Receive Spatial Modulation by Symbol-Level Precoding: Design Guidelines with or without Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces,” Digital Communications and Networks, early access.  

Qiang Li, Jun Li, Miaowen Wen, Xiaoyu Dang, Huseyin Arslan, and Naofal Al-Dhahir, “Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing for 6G Networks: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges,” IEEE Network, early access.  

Pengfei Huang, Qiang Li*, Dong Huang, and Junfeng Wang, "Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection for AFDM Over Doubly Selective Fading Channels," Physical Communication, vol. 69, Apr. 2025.

Qiang Li, Yehuai Feng, Miaowen Wen, Jinming Wen, George C. Alexandropoulos, Ertugrul Basar, and H. Vincent Poor, "Cooperative Backscatter Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: An APSK Approach," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 16218-16233, Nov. 2024.

Yehuai Feng, Qiang Li*, Yingyang Chen, Qingqing Wu, and Miaowen Wen, "RIS-Aided Symbiotic Radio: A Number and Phase Modulation Approach," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1597-1607, Oct. 2024. 

Qiang Li*, Song Bai, Miaowen Wen, and Dong Huang, “RIS-Based Code Index Modulation for Joint Active/Passive Transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 7316-7321, May 2024. 

Qiang Li, Xiangyi Lin, Chao Zhang, and Jie Li, “Novel RIS-Aided Receive Spatial Modulation via Joint Active and Passive Beamforming,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1058-1062, Apr. 2024.   

Qi Zheng, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, George Alexandropoulos, and Lexi Xu, “Progressive Channel Estimation for Single-Carrier Communications Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1993-1997, Dec. 2023.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Lexi Xu, and Kang Li, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Number Modulation for Symbiotic Active/Passive Transmission,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 22, pp. 19356-19367,  Nov. 2023.

Song Bai, Qiang Li*, and Donghong Cai, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Hybrid Phase and Code Modulation for Symbiotic Radio,” China Communications, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 30-42, 2023.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, George C. Alexandropoulos, Kyeong Jin Kim, and H. Vincent Poor, “Channel Estimation and Multipath Diversity Reception for RIS-Empowered Broadband Wireless Systems Based on Cyclic-Prefixed Single-Carrier Transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 5145-5156, Aug. 2023 . 

Yehuai Feng, Qiang Li*, Shancheng Zhao, Jinming Wen, and Ze Cai, “RIS-Based Wireless Sensor Networks: Passive Beamforming and Decision Gathering,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1624-1628, Jun. 2023.

Qiang Li, Song Bai, Jun Li, Zeng Hu, and Junfeng Wang, “RIS-Assisted Joint Active and Passive Transmission With Distributed Reception,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 6805-6809, May 2023.

Jun Li, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Yingyang Chen, Yu Huang, and Wenli Shang, “Index Modulation Multiple Access for 6G Communications: Principles, Applications, and Challenges,” IEEE Network, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 52-60, Jan./Feb. 2023. 

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Jun Li, Zihao He, and Yier Yan, “Interplay Between Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Spatial Modulation: New Application Paradigms,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 126-133, Feb. 2023. 

Shuangyi Qian, Yingyang Chen, Qiang Li, Pengxiang Li, Xu Xia, Miaowen Wen, “Anchor-Aided Channel Estimation for RIS-Assisted Multiuser Broadband Communications,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 89-93, Jan. 2023.

Hao Zhao, Fei Ji*, Qiang Li*, Quansheng Guan, Shuai Wang, and Miaowen Wen, “Federated Meta-Learning Enhanced Acoustic Radio Cooperative Framework for Ocean of Things,”  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 474-486, Apr. 2022.

Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li*, Kyeong Jin Kim*, David Lopez-Perez, Octavia A. Dobre, H. Vincent Poor, Petar Popovski, and Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, “Private 5G Networks: Concepts, Architectures, and Research Landscape,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 7-25, Jan. 2022.

Zeng Hu, Jing Yang, Pengfei Guo, and Qiang Li, “Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing With Cascade Index Modulation,” IET Communications, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1057-1070, 2022.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, and Marco Di Renzo, “Single-RF MIMO: From Spatial Modulation to Metasurface-Based Modulation,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 88-95, Aug. 2021.

Miaowen Wen, Jun Li, Shuping Dang, Qiang Li, Shahid Mumtaz, and Huseyin Arslan, “Joint-Mapping Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing With Subcarrier Number Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 4306-4318, Jul. 2021.

Jun Li, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Zhenrong Zhang, and Qiang Li*, “Smart Detection Using the Cascaded Artificial Neural Network for OFDM With Subcarrier Number Modulation,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1227-1231, Jun. 2021.

Jing Yuan, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li*, Ertugrul Basar, George C. Alexandropoulos, and Gaojie Chen, “Receive Quadrature Reflecting Modulation for RIS-Empowered Wireless Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 5121-5125, May 2021.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Shuai Wang, George C. Alexandropoulos, and Yik-Chung Wu, “Space Shift Keying With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Phase Configuration Designs and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 2, pp. 322-333, 2021. 

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Marco Di Renzo, H. Vincent Poor, and Fangjiong Chen, “Dual-Hop Spatial Modulation With A Relay Transmitting Its Own Information,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 4449-4463, Jul. 2020.

Jun Li, Qiang Li, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Xue-Qin Jiang, and Yuyang Peng, “Low-Complexity Detection for Index Modulation Multiple Access,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 943-947, Jul. 2020.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Bruno Clerckx, Shahid Mumtaz, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, and Rose Qingyang Hu, “Subcarrier Index Modulation for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Applications, and Challenges,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 118-125, Jun. 2020.

Xinyue Pei, Hua Yu, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, and Zhiguo Ding, “Secure Outage Analysis for Cooperative NOMA Systems With Antenna Selection,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 4503-4507, Apr. 2020.

Junfeng Wang, Yue Cui, Jianghui Li, Haixin Sun, Qiang Li, Biao Wang, Mingzhang Zhou, Zeyad A. H. Qasem, and Hamada Esmaiel, “On Orthogonal Coding-Based Modulation,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 816-820, Apr. 2020.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Shuping Dang, Ertugrul Basar, H. Vincent Poor, and Fangjiong Chen, “Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing Based on OFDM With Index Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 192-204, Jan. 2020. 

Xuan Chen, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Yik-Chung Wu, and Theodoros Tsiftsis, “Dual-Polarized Spatial Media-Based Modulation,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1258-1269, Oct. 2019.

Miaowen Wen, Xuan Chen, Qiang Li, Ertugrul Basar, Yik-Chung Wu, and Wensong Zhang, “Index Modulation Aided Subcarrier Mapping for Dual-Hop OFDM Relaying,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 6012-6024, Sep. 2019.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, H. Vincent Poor, and Fangjiong Chen, “Spatial Modulation-Aided Cooperative NOMA: Performance Analysis and Comparative Study,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 715-728, Jun. 2019. 

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Yuekai Zhang, Jun Li, Fangjiong Chen, and Fei Ji, “Information-Guided Pilot Insertion for OFDM-Based Vehicular Communications Systems,’’ IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 26-37, Feb. 2019. 

Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Ertugrul Basar, and Wensong Zhang, “Generalized Multiple-Mode OFDM With Index Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 6531-6543, Oct. 2018.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, H. Vincent Poor, Beixiong Zheng, and Fangjiong Chen, “Diversity Enhancing Multiple-Mode OFDM With Index Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3653-3666, Aug. 2018. 

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, and Fangjiong Chen, “Index Modulated OFDM Spread Spectrum,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2360-2374, Apr. 2018.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, H. Vincent Poor, and Fangjiong Chen, “Information Guided Precoding for OFDM,” IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 19644-19656, 2017. 

Fangjiong Chen, Shaoe Lin, Beixiong Zheng, Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Yun Liu, and Fei Ji, “Minimum Symbol-Error Rate Based Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalizer in Underwater Acoustic Channels,” IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 25147-25157, Nov. 2017.

Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, Qiang Li, Beixiong Zheng, and Meng Zhang, “Multiple-Mode Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing With Index Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 9, pp.3892-3906, Sep. 2017.

Miaowen Wen, Binbin Ye, Ertugrul Basar, Qiang Li, and Fei Ji, “Enhanced Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing With Index Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4786-4801, Jul. 2017.

Xiaoyu Dang, Zhun Huang, Qiang Li, and Xiangbin Yu, “Estimation of Symbol Timing in Physical-Layer Network Coding With Arrival Time Differences,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 330-333, Feb. 2017.

Xiaoyu Dang, Qiang Li, and Xiangbin Yu, “Symbol Timing Estimation for Physical-Layer Network Coding,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 755-758, May 2015.

Xiaoyu Dang, Qiang Li,  Hao Xiao, and Cheng Wang, “Node Symbol Timing Error Estimator for Physical-Layer Network-Coded Relay,” IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E98A, no. 12,  pp. 2733-2737, Dec. 2015.

Qi Zheng, Miaowen Wen, Yao Ge, and Qiang Li, "Partially-overlapping AFDM-OMA for Uplink Transmission", in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), Taibei, China, Dec. 2025.

Xiangyi Lin, Qiang Li, Lei Tang, Miaowen Wen, and Xiaoyu Dang， “Generalized Receive Space Shift Keying Empowered by A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface”, in Proc. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) , Chongqing, China, Oct. 2025.

Yingyang Chen, Jiayuan Wu, Jing Li, Xuan Chen, Qiang Li, and Li Wang, "Spectral Efficient Hybrid Beamforming Design for Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO System," in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), South Africa, Cape Town, Dec. 2024.

Guangyuan Zheng, Miaowen Wen, Yiwei Tao, Qiang Li, and Zhiguo Ding , "Energy Efficient Computation Offloading for DNN Tasks in Semantic-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing Systems," in Proc. IEEE 24th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), Chengdu, China, Oct. 2024. 

Jingyang Li, Xuan Chen, Dong Tang, Yu Huang, Qiang Li, and Miaowen Wen, “Channel Modeling of Diffusive Molecular Communication with Heterogeneous Spherical Boundaries,” in Proc. IEEE WCNC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Apr. 2024.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Yu Huang, Jinming Wen, Jun Li, and Ertugrul Basar, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalization,” in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023.

Yehuai Feng and Qiang Li, “Enhanced Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Amplitude Phase Shift Keying,” in Proc. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) , Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2023.

Menghao Hu, Tong Zhang, Shuai Wang, Guoliang Li, Yingyang Chen, Qiang Li, and Gaojie Chen, “Integrated Robotics Networks with Co-optimization of Drone Placement and Air-Ground Communications,”  in Proc. IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC-Fall), Hong Kong, China, Oct. 2023.

Song Bai, Qiang Li, Donghong Cai, and Yu Huang, “RIS-Empowered Phase and Code Index Modulation,” in  Proc. International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems, Guangzhou, China, Apr. 2023.

Zahid Zahid, Fei Ji, Jun Li, Qiang Li, Adil Nawaz, Xueqin Jiang, Jia Hou, “Composite Virtual Spatial Modulation and Its Diversity Enhancement,” in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Commun. (ICC) Workshop, Rome, Italy, May-Jun. 2023.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, George C. Alexandropoulos, Kyeong Jin Kim, and H. Vincent Poor, “Cyclic-Prefixed Single-Carrier Transmission With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces,” in Proc. EuCNC & 6G Summit, Grenoble, France, Jun. 2022,  pp. 512–517.

Jun Li, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Shahid Mumtaz, Qiang Li, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, “Hybrid Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing With Subcarrier Number Modulation,” in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Commun. (ICC), Montreal, Canada, Jun. 2021.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Shuping Dang, Ertugrul Basar, H. Vincent Poor, and Fangjiong Chen, “OFDM-IM-Based Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Radio Networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Commun. Technol. (ICCT), Xi’an, China, Oct. 2019. (Best Paper Award)

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Yuekai Zhang, Jun Li, Fangjiong Chen, and Fei Ji, “Pilot Insertion With Index Modulation for OFDM-Based Vehicular Communications,’’ in Proc. IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Inf. Process. (GlobalSIP), Anaheim, California, USA, Nov. 2018. 

Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Ertugrul Basar, and Wensong Zhang, “A Generalization of Multiple-Mode OFDM With Index Modulation,’’ in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Digital Signal Process. (DSP), Shanghai, China, Nov. 2018.

Beixiong Zheng, Fangjiong Chen, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Yun Liu, and Fei Ji, “Secure NOMA Based Cooperative Networks With Rate-Splitting Source and Full-Duplex Relay,” in Proc. 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Lisbon, Aug. 2018.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Ertugrul Basar, and Fangjiong Chen, “OFDM Spread Spectrum With Index Modulation,” in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM) Workshops, Singapore, Dec. 2017.

Beixiong Zheng, Shaoe Lin, Miaowen Wen, Qiang Li, Yu Huang, and Fangjiong Chen, “Fixed-Complexity Sphere Decoding for Soft Detection of Generalized Spatial Modulation,” in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM) Workshops, Singapore, Dec. 2017.

Qiang Li, Miaowen Wen, Jun Li, Xiang Cheng, and Fangjiong Chen, “Virtual Spatial Modulation With Diversity Improvement,” in Proc. IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC-Fall), Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2017.

Jing Wang, Fei Ji, Fangjiong Chen, Hua Yu, and Qiang Li, “A New Generalized Khatri-Rao Products Approach for Correlated Source Number Estimation,” in Proc. IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC-Fall), Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2017.