Hongyang Du

Hongyang Du

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. Email: duhy@hku.hk or duhy@eee.hku.hk

Publications

Selected Submitted Papers

  1. Hongyang Du, Ruichen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Shuguang Cui, Xuemin Shen, Dong In Kim. ``User-Centric Interactive AI for Distributed Diffusion Model-based AI-Generated Content.’’, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IF: 23.6), Major Revision, 2024.

Journal

  1. Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Dong In Kim, ``AI-Generated Incentive Mechanism and Full-Duplex Semantic Communications for Information Sharing,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 41, pp. 2981-2997, Sept. 2023.

    Selected by IEEE JSAC Popular Documents - October 2023

  2. Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Junshan Zhang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ``Semantic Communications for Wireless Sensing: RIS-aided Encoding and Self-supervised Decoding,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 41, pp. 2547-2562, Aug. 2023.

    Selected by IEEE JSAC Popular Documents - August 2023

  3. Hongyang Du, Jiazhen Liu, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Junshan Zhang, and Dong In Kim, ``Attention-aware Resource Allocation and QoE Analysis for Metaverse xURLLC Services,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 41, pp. 2158-2175, Jun. 2023.

    Selected by IEEE JSAC Popular Documents - July 2023

  4. Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Yuanai Xie, Yanyu Cheng, Jiawen Kang, and Dong In Kim, ``Performance Analysis and Optimization for Jammer-Aided Multi-Antenna UAV Covert Communication,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 40, pp. 2962-2979, Oct, 2022.

  5. Hongyang Du, Ruichen Zhang, Yinqiu Liu, Jiacheng Wang, Yijing Lin, Zonghang Li, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Shuguang Cui, Bo Ai, Haibo Zhou, and Dong In Kim. ``Enhancing deep reinforcement learning: A tutorial on generative diffusion models in network optimization.’’, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IF: 35.6), accepted, 2024.

  6. Hongyang Du, Zonghang Li, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Huawei Huang, and Shiwen Mao. ``Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning for Edge-enabled AI-Generated Content Services,’’ IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), accepted, 2024.

  7. Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Ke Guan, Dusit Niyato, Huiying Jiao, Zhiqin Wang, and Thomas K"{u}rner, ``Performance and Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided THz Communications,’’ IEEE Transactions on Communications (IF: 8.3), vol. 70, pp. 3575-3593, May, 2022

  8. Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Julian Cheng, and Bo Ai, ``Millimeter wave communications with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Performance analysis and optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Communications (IF: 8.3), vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2752–2768, Apr. 2021.

  9. Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Kostas P. Peppas, Hui Zhao, Bo Ai and Xiaodan Zhang, ``On the Distribution of the Ratio of Products of Fisher-Snedecor $\mathcal{F}$ Random Variables and Its Applications,’’ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1855-1866, Feb. 2020.

  10. Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Julian Cheng, and Bo Ai, ``Sum of Fisher-Snedecor $\mathcal{F}$ Random Variables and Its Applications,’’ IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IF: 7.9), vol. 1, pp. 342–356, Mar. 2020.

  11. Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, Jiayi Zhang, and Dong In Kim. ``Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Joint Radar and Covert Communications: Fundamentals, Optimization, and Challenges.” IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (IF: 8.1), vol. 17, pp. 54-64, May 2022.

  12. Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Mohsen Guizani, and Dong In Kim. ``Rethinking Wireless Communication Security in Semantic Internet of Things,’’, IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), vol. 30, pp. 36-43, Jun. 2023.

  13. Hongyang Du, Zonghang Li, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Dong In Kim. ``Enabling AI-generated content (AIGC) services in wireless edge networks.’’, IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), to appear, 2023.

  14. Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Ping Zhang, Shuguang Cui, Xuemin Shen, Shiwen Mao, Zhu Han, Abbas Jamalipour, H Vincent Poor, Dong In Kim. ``The Age of Generative AI and AI-Generated Everything.’’ IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2023.

    Invited Paper, invited by Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network (Prof. Chonggang Wang)

  15. Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Xuemin Sherman Shen, and Dong In Kim. ``Exploring attention-aware network resource allocation for customized metaverse services’’, IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), early access, 2022.

  16. Hongyang Du, Bohao Ma, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Zhaohui Yang. ``Rethinking quality of experience for metaverse services: A consumer-based economics perspective’’ IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), early access, 2022.

  17. Hongyang Du, Ruichen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Dong In Kim, Xuemin Sherman Shen, and H. Vincent Poor. ``Exploring collaborative distributed diffusion-based AI-generated content (AIGC) in wireless networks.’’ IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), early access, 2023.

  18. Minrui Xu, Hongyang Du (Corresponding Author), Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Shiwen Mao, Zhu Han, Abbas Jamalipour, Dong In Kim, Xuemin Shen, Victor C. M. Leung, H. Vincent Poor. ``Unleashing the power of edge-cloud generative AI in mobile networks: A survey of AIGC services.’’ IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IF: 35.6), vol. 25, pp. 213-250, 2023.

  19. Wanting Yang, Hongyang Du, Ziqin Liew, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, Xuefen Chi, Xuemin Sherman Shen, and Chunyan Miao. ``Semantic communications for 6G future internet: Fundamentals, applications, and challenges.’’ IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IF: 35.6), vol. 25, pp. 213-250, 2023.

  20. Jiawen Kang, Hongyang Du, Zonghang Li, Zehui Xiong, Shiyao Ma, Dusit Niyato, and Yuan Li. ``Personalized Saliency in Task-Oriented Semantic Communications: Image Transmission and Performance Analysis.’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 41, pp. 186-201, Nov. 2022.

    First Price of Outstanding Papers of Computer Academy of Guangdong (China) IEEE JSAC Popular Documents - December 2023

  21. Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Peng Zhang, Julian Cheng, and Liang Yang, ``Performance Analysis of 5G Mobile Relay Systems for High-Speed Trains,’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 638, no. 12, pp. 2760-2772, Dec. 2020.

  22. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Zehui Xiong, Jiawen Kang, Bo Ai, Zhu Han, and Dong In Kim. ``Generative Artificial Intelligence Assisted Wireless Sensing: Human Flow Detection in Practical Communication Environments.’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), accepted, 2024.

  23. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Mu Zhou, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Abbas Jamalipour. ``Through the Wall Detection and Localization of Autonomous Mobile Device in Indoor Scenario.’’ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4), vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 161-176, Jan. 2024.

  24. Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Qiang Sun, Bo Ai, and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, ``Physical layer security enhancement with reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided networks,’’ IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IF: 6.8), vol. 16, pp. 3480-3495, May 2021.

  25. Ismail Lotfi, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Sumei Sun, and Dong In Kim. ``On The Robustness of Channel Allocation in Joint Radar And Communication Systems: An Auction Approach.’’ IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), early access, 2023.

  26. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Mu Zhou, Jiawen Kang, and H. V. Poor, ``Acceleration Estimation of Wireless Signal Propagation Path Length Changes for Indoor Integrated Sensing and Communications,’’ IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 10.4), accepted, 2024.

  27. Xiaoqi Wang, Hongyang Du, Yuehong Gao, Jiayi Zhang, Dusit Niyato, and Khaled B. Letaief, “Secure Body-Centric Internet of Things Networks: Physical Layer Security vs Covert Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 10.4), vol. 22, pp. 5214-5228, Jan. 2023.

  28. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Zengshan Tian, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Xuemin Sherman Shen. ``Semantic-Aware Sensing Information Transmission for Metaverse: A Contest Theoretic Approach’’ IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 10.4), vol. 22, pp. 5214-5228, Jan. 2023.

  29. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Deepu Rajan, and Shiwen Mao. ``A Unified Framework for Guiding Generative AI with Wireless Perception in Resource Constrained Mobile Edge Networks.’’ IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), accepted, 2024.

  30. Yinqiu Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Abbas Jamalipour, and Xuemin Shen. ``ProSecutor: Protecting Mobile AIGC Services on Two-Layer Blockchain via Reputation and Contract Theoretic Approaches’’ IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), accepted, 2024.

  31. Xiaoxu Ren, Hongyang Du, Chao Qiu, Tao Luo, Zejun Liu, Xiaofei Wang, and Dusit Niyato, ``Dual-Level Resource Provisioning and Heterogeneous Auction for Mobile Metaverse,’’ IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), accepted, 2024.

  32. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Zehui Xiong, Jiawen Kang, Shiwen Mao, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ``Guiding AI-Generated Digital Content with Wireless Perception’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), accepted, 2023.

  33. Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Shuiguang Cui, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, and Ping Zhang, ``Generative AI for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Insights from the Physical Layer Perspective,’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), accepted, 2023.

  34. Yinqiu Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Chunyan Miao, and Abbas Jamalipour. ``Blockchain-Empowered Lifecycle Management for AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Products in Edge Networks.’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), early access, 2023.

  35. Yinqiu Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Dong In Kim, and Abbas Jamalipour. ``Deep Generative Model and Its Applications in Efficient Wireless Network Management: A Tutorial and Case Study’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), accepted, 2023.

  36. Yinqiu Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Shuguang Cui, Xuemin ()Sherman) Shen, and Ping Zhang, ``Optimizing Mobile-Edge AI-Generated Everything (AIGX) Services by Prompt Engineering: Fundamental, Framework, and Case Study,” IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2022.

  37. Baoxia Du, Hongyang Du, Haifeng Liu, Dusit Niyato, Peng Xin, Jun Yu, Mingyang Qi, and You Tang. ``YOLO-based Semantic Communication with Generative AI-aided Resource Allocation for Digital Twins Construction.’’ IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.6), early access, 2023.

  38. Zi Qin Liew, Hongyang Du, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, Chunyan Miao, and Dong In Kim. ``Economics of Semantic Communication System: An Auction Approach.’’ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), early access, 2023.

  39. Yijing Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Gang Feng, Jiawen Kang, and Zehui Xiong. ``Slicing4Meta: An Intelligent Integration Architecture with Multi-Dimensional Network Resources for Metaverse-as-a-Service in Web 3.0.’’ IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 11.2), vol. 61, pp. 20-26, Aug. 2023.

  40. Yijing Lin, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiangtian Nie, Jiayi Zhang, Yanyu Cheng, and Zhaohui Yang. ``Blockchain-aided secure semantic communication for AI-generated content in metaverse.’’ IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (IF: 5.9), vol. 4, pp. 72-83, Mar. 2023.

  41. Guangyuan Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Dong In Kim. ``Semantic communications for artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) toward effective content creation.” IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2023.

  42. Ruichen Zhang, Hongyang Du, Yinqiu Liu, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Sumei Sun, Xuemin Shen, and H. Vencent Poor, ``Interactive AI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Next Generation,” IEEE Network, IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2024.

  43. Enyu Shi, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Bo Ai, Chau Yuen, Dusit Niyato, Khaled B. Letaif, and X. S. Shen, ``RIS-Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems for 6G: Fundamentals, System Design, and Applications,’’ Proceedings of the IEEE, accepted, (IF: 20.6), 2024.

  44. Yanyu Cheng, Dusit Niyato, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Chunyan Miao, and Dong In Kim, ``Resource Allocation and Common Message Selection for Task-Oriented Semantic Information Transmission With RSMA,’’ IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 10.4), accepted, 2023.

  45. Jie Zheng, Baoxia Du, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, and Haijun Zhang, “Energy-efficient Resource Allocation in Generative AI-aided Secure Semantic Mobile Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), accepted, 2024.

  46. Jiakang Zheng, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim, and Bo Ai. ``Rate-Splitting for CF Massive MIMO Systems With Channel Aging.’’ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), early access, 2023.

  47. Yanyu Cheng, Dusit Niyato, Hongyang Du, Chunyan Miao, and Dong In Kim, ``Goal-Oriented Semantic Information Transmission With Message-Sharing NOMA,’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 10.4), accepted, 2023.

  48. Bokai Xu, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Zhe Wang, Y. Liu, Dusit Niyato, Bo Ai, and Khaled B. Letaief, ``Resource Allocation for Near-Field Communications: Fundamentals, Tools, and Outlooks,’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), accepted, 2024.

  49. Jiakang Zheng, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Sumei Sun, Bo Ai, and Khaled B. Letaief, ``Flexible-Position MIMO for Wireless Communications: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Future Directions,’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), accepted, 2023.

  50. Jie Zheng, Jipeng Xu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Jiangtian Nie, and Zheng Wang. ``Trust Management of Tiny Federated Learning in Internet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’’ IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.6), accepted, 2023.

  51. Zhe Wang, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Shuguang Cui, Bo Ai, Mérouane Debbah, Khaled B. Letaief, and H. Vincent Poor. ``A Tutorial on Extremely Large-Scale MIMO for 6G: Fundamentals, Signal Processing, and Applications’’ IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IF: 35.6), accepted, 2023.

  52. Zhe Wang, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Wei EI Sha, Bo Ai, Dusit Niyato, and Mérouane Debbah. ``Extremely Large-Scale MIMO: Fundamentals, Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions.’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), early access, 2023.

  53. Meng Shen, Jing Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Xiangyun Tang, Jiawen Kang, Y. Ding, and L. Zhu, ``Secure Semantic Communications: Challenges, Approaches, and Opportunities,’’ IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2023.

  54. Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, and Jun Cai. “A revolution of personalized healthcare: enabling human digital twin with mobile AIGC.” IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2023.

  55. Xumin Huang, Peichun Li, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim, and Yuan Wu. “Federated Learning-Empowered AI-Generated Content in Wireless Networks.” IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2023.

  56. C. T. Nguyen, Y. Liu, Hongyang Du, D. T. Hoang, D. Niyato, D. N. Nguyen, and S. Mao, “Generative AI-enabled Blockchain Networks: Fundamentals, Applications, and Case Study,” IEEE Network, accepted, 2024

  57. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Yulan Gao, Jiacheng Wang, and Abbas Jamalipour, ``Blockchain-based Semantic Information Sharing and Pricing for Web 3.0,’’ IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 6.6), accepted, 2023.

  58. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Zibin Zheng, ``Blockchain-based Trustworthy and Efficient AIGC Services in Metaverse’’, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IF: 8.1), accepted, 2024.

  59. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Ruilong Deng, and Xuemin Sherman Shen. ``A unified blockchain-semantic framework for wireless edge intelligence enabled web 3.0.’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), early access, 2023.

  60. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, Qian Wang, Jingqing Ruan, and Shaohua Wan. ``DRL-based Adaptive Sharding for Blockchain-based Federated Learning.’’ IEEE Transactions on Communications (IF: 8.3), early access, 2023.

  61. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Abbas Jamalipour, and Xuemin Sherman Shen. ``A Unified Framework for Integrating Semantic Communication and AI-Generated Content in Metaverse.’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), early access, 2023.

  62. Y. Liu, G. Feng, Hongyang Du, Z. Qin, Y. Sun, J. Kang, X. Li, and D. Niyato, “Adaptive Clustering based Straggler-aware Federated Learning in Wireless Edge Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, accepted, 2024.

  63. Weixiu Guo, Yang Lu, Hongyang Du, Bo Ai, Dusit Niyato, and Zhiguo Ding, ``Hybrid MRT and ZF Learning for Energy-Efficient Transmission in Multi-RIS-Assisted Networks,’’ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), accepted, 2024

  64. Ruichen Zhang, Ke Xiong, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Xuemin Shen, and H. Vincent Poor. ``Generative AI-enabled Vehicular Networks: Fundamentals, Framework, and Case Study.’’ IEEE Network (IF: 9.3), accepted, 2024.

  65. Nguyen Van Huynh, Jiacheng Wang, Hongyang Du, Dinh Thai Hoang, Dusit Niyato, Diep N. Nguyen, Dong In Kim, and Khaled B. Letaief. ``Generative AI for Physical Layer Communications: A Survey.’’ IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (IF: 8.6), accepted, 2024.

  66. J. Chen, Y. Shi, C. Yi, Hongyang Du, J. Kang, and D. Niyato, “Generative AI-Driven Human Digital Twin in IoT-Healthcare: A Comprehensive Survey,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, accepted, 2024

  67. J. He, B. Lai, J. Kang, Hongyang Du, J. Nie, T. Zhang, Y. Yuan, W. Zhang, D. Niyato, and A. Jamalipour, “Securing Federated Diffusion Model with Dynamic Quantization for Generative AI Services in Multiple-Access Artificial Intelligence of Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, accepted, 2024

  68. Yaoqi Yang, Bangning Zhang, Daoxing Guo, Hongyang Du, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, and Zhu Han, ``Generative AI for Secure and Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing,’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), accepted, 2024

  69. Nguyen Cong Luong, Thuan Le Van, Shaohan Feng, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, and Dong In Kim. ``Edge Computing for Metaverse: Incentive Mechanism Versus Semantic Communication.’’ IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.9), early access, 2023.

  70. Zhilong Liu, Jiayi Zhang, Ziheng Liu, Hongyang Du, Zhe Wang, Dusit Niyato, Mohsen Guizani, and Bo Ai. ``Cell-Free XL-MIMO Meets Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Architectures, Challenges, and Future Directions.’’ IEEE Wireless Communications (IF: 12.9), to appear, 2023.

  71. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Yaofeng Tu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, and Hui Yang. ``A Blockchain-based Semantic Exchange Framework for Web 3.0 toward Participatory Economy.’’ IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 11.2), vol. 61, pp. 94-100, Aug. 2023.

  72. Peng Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Huahua Xiao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, and Bo Ai. ``RIS-Aided 6G Communication System With Accurate Traceable User Mobility.’’ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), vol. 72, pp. 2718-2722, Feb. 2023.

  73. Jiawei Su, Zhixin Liu, Yuan-ai Xie, Kai Ma, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, and Dusit Niyato. ``Semantic Communication-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation in D2D Vehicular Networks.’’ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), vol. 77, pp. 10784-10796, Aug. 2023.

  74. Tao Huang, Yudong Huang, Xinyuan Zhang, Shuo Wang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Fei Richard Yu, Yunjie Liu, ``Hirail: Core-agnostic Deterministic Networks for Long-distance Time-sensitive IIoT Applications.’’ IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.6), accepted, 2024.

  75. Jinbo Wen, Jiangtian Nie, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, Hongyang Du, Yang Zhang, and Mohsen Guizani, ``From Generative AI to Generative Internet of Things: Fundamentals, Framework, and Outlooks,’’ IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, accepted, 2024.

  76. Jiawen Kang, Yue Zhong, Minrui Xu, Jiangtian Nie, Jinbo Wen, Hongyang Du, Dongdong Ye, Xumin Huang, Dusit Niyato, and Shengli Xie. ``Tiny Multi-Agent DRL for Twins Migration in UAV Metaverses: A Multi-Leader Multi-Follower Stackelberg Game Approach’’ IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.6), accepted, 2024.

  77. Z. Li, W. Feng, W. Cai, H. Yu, L. Luo, G. Sun, Hongyang Du, and D. Niyato, “Accelerating Geo-distributed Machine Learning with Network-Aware Adaptive Tree and Auxiliary Route,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted, 2024

  78. Jiani Fan, Wenzhuo Yang, Ziyao Liu, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, Kwok-Yan Lam, and Hongyang Du. ``Understanding Security in Smart City Domains From the ANT-centric Perspective,’’ IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.6), vol. 10, pp. 11199-11223, Jul. 2023.

Conference

  1. Hongyang Du, Guangyuan Liu, Yijing Lin, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kanag, Zehui Xiong, and Dong In Kim, “Mixture of Experts for Intelligent Networks: A Large Language Model-enabled Approach” in Proceedings of International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 27–31 May 2024.

    Best Paper Award

  2. Hongyang Du, Ruichen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Dong In Kim, ``Reinforcement Learning With Large Language Models (LLMs) Interaction For Network Services’’ in Proceedings of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Big Island, Hawaii, USA, 19-22 February 2024.

    Invited paper

  3. Hongyang Du, Guangyuan Liu, Dusit Niyato, Jiayi Zhang, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Bo Ai, and Dong In Kim, ``Generative AI-aided Joint Training-free Secure Semantic Communications via Multi-modal Prompts’’ in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, South Korea, 14-19 April 2024.

  4. Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Dong In Kim, and Boon Hee Soong. ``Performance Analysis of Free-Space Information Sharing in Full-Duplex Semantic Communications.’’ in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-8 December 2023.

  5. Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Junshan Zhang, and Xuemin Sherman Shen. ``Lightweight Wireless Sensing Through RIS and Inverse Semantic Communications.’’ In Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Glasgow, UK, 26–29 March 2023.

  6. Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Yuan-ai Xie, Yanyu Cheng, Jiawen Kang, and Dong In Kim. ``Covert Communication for Jammer-aided Multi-Antenna UAV Networks.’’ in Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Seoul, South Korea, 16-20 May 2022.

  7. Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Dong In Kim, and Chunyan Miao. ``Optimal Targeted Advertising Strategy For Secure Wireless Edge Metaverse.’’ in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 4-8 December 2022.

  8. Wei Chong Ng, Hongyang Du, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, and Chunyan Miao, “Stochastic Resource Allocation for Semantic Communication-aided Virtual Transportation Networks in the Metaverse” in Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21-24 April 2024.

  9. J. Zheng, J. Zhang, Hongyang Du, J. Kang, D. Niyato, and B. Ai, “Predicting Cascading Failures with a Hyperparametric Diffusion Model” in Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom), Xi’an, China, 5-7 July 2024.

  10. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, G. Gui, Shuguang Cui, and J. Ren, “Scalable Federated Unlearning via Isolated and Coded Sharding” in Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Jeju, Korea, 3-9 August 2024.

  11. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Y. Xu, and Dusit Niyato, ``Scalable Blockchain Oracle for AIGC Services’’ in Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Denver, CO, USA, 9-13 June 2024.

  12. Yijing Liu, Gang Feng, Hongyang Du, Z. Qin, Yao Sun, Jiawen Kang, and Dusit Niyato, ``Straggler-aware Federated Learning based on Adaptive Clustering to Support Edge Intelligence’’ in Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Denver, CO, USA, 9-13 June 2024.

  13. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Xiaoyuan Liu, ``Incentive and Dynamic Client Selection for Federated Unlearning.’’ in Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), Singapore, from 13-17 May 2024.

  14. Guangyuan Liu, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, and Boon Hee Soong, ``Vision-based Semantic Communications for Metaverse Services: A Contest Theoretic Approach,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-8 December 2023.

  15. Zi Qin Liew, Hongyang Du, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, and Han Yu. ``Economics of Semantic Communication in Metaverse: An Auction Approach.’’ in Proceedings of IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 8-11 January 2023.

  16. Peng Zhang, Hongyang Du, Yiyu Cao, and Jiayi Zhang, ``Wireless Powered UAV Relay Communications over the Fisher-Snedecor $\mathcal{F}$ Fading Channels,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), pp. 1-5, 2019.

  17. Huahua Xiao, Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Ke Guan, and Bo Ai. ``Outage Probability of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided THz Communications.’’ in Proceedings of IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), pp. 415-420., 2021.

  18. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, and J. Wang, ``Verifiable and Efficient Semantic Blockchain,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-8 December 2023.

  19. Yanyu Cheng, Dusit Niyato, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang, Chunyan Miao, and Dong In Kim, ``Interest-Based Semantic Information Transmission With RSMA in Smart Cities,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Rome, Italy, 28 May - 01 June 2023.

  20. Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Hongyang Du, and Dusit Niyato. ``Blockchain-Aided AI-Generated Content Services: Stackelberg Game-Based Content Caching Approach.’’ in Proceedings of International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Chicago, IL, USA, 2-8 July 2023.

  21. Yining Wang, Y. Hu, Hongyang Du, T. Luo, and Dusit Niyato, ``Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Covert Semantic Communications over Wireless Networks,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 4-10 June 2023.

  22. Jiakang Zheng, Jiayi Zhang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, and Bo Ai, ``Cell-free massive MIMO Enabled URLLC Communication for the Green Metaverse,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom), Kyoto, Japan, 26-28 June 2023.

  23. L. Zhou, S. Leng, Z. Li, Hongyang Du, and D. Niyato, ``Graph Learning Enhanced UAV Swarms Based Multiple Targets Tracking,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-8 December 2023.

  24. Jinbo Wen, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Yang Zhang, Hongyang Du, Yutao Jiao, and Dusit Niyato, ``Task Freshness-aware Incentive Mechanism for Vehicle Twin Migration in Vehicular Metaverses,’’ in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom), Kyoto, Japan, 26-28 June 2023.