Publications

My publication list: Entry@DBLP, Google scholar.

Journal Articles

[J42] K. Fang, Y. Ouyang, B. Zheng, L. Huang, G. Wang and Z. Chen, “Security Enhancement for RIS-Aided MEC Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3476139. IEEE

[J41] Z. Chen, Y. Guo, P. Zhang, H. Jiang, Y. Xiao and L. Huang, “Physical Layer Security Improvement for Hybrid RIS-assisted MIMO Communications,” in IEEE Communications Letters, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3427010. IEEE.

[J40] W. Shi, Y. Liu, Z. Chen, “RIS-Empowered V2V Communications: Three-Dimensional Beam Domain Channel Modeling and Analysis,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3434568.

[J39] M. Fang, J. Li, Y. Liu, Z. Chen and X. Y. Zhang, “Performance Analysis of Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided URLLC Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3425477. IEEE.

[J38] N. Yang, H. Jiang, D. Guo, Y. Liu, G. Ding, Z. Chen, “Proof of Reputation: A Blockchain-based Countermeasure to Defend against Massive SSDF in Cognitive Radio Networks,” in IEEE Communications Letters, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3419829. IEEE

[J37] L. Zeng, X. Liao, Z. Ma, W. Xie, H. Jiang and Z. Chen, “Envelope Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of Low-Altitude UAV-to-UAV Channels,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 2220-2224, Aug. 2024. IEEE.

[J36] J. Ye, L. Huang, Z. Chen, P. Zhang and M. Rihan, “Unsupervised Learning for Joint Beamforming Design in RIS-Aided ISAC Systems,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 2100-2104, Aug. 2024. IEEE.

[J35] L. Zeng, X. Liao, Z. Ma, H. Jiang and Z. Chen, “UAV-to-UAV MIMO Systems Under Multimodal Nonisotropic Scattering: Geometrical Channel Modeling and Outage Performance Analysis,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 15, pp. 26266-26278, 1 Aug.1, 2024. IEEE. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

[J34] Z. Chen, X. Y. Zhang, D. K. C. So, K. -K. Wong, C. -B. Chae and J. Wang, “Federated Learning Driven Sparse Code Multiple Access in V2X Communications,” in IEEE Network, doi: 10.1109/MNET.2024.3375935. IEEE.

[J33] Z. Chen, L. Huang, S. Xia, B. Tang, M. Haardt and X. Y. Zhang, “Parallel Channel Estimation for RIS-Assisted Internet of Things,” in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 9762-9773, Aug. 2024. IEEE.

[J32] J. Tang, X. Du, Z. Chen, X. Y. Zhang, D. K. C. So, S. Jin and K. -K. Wong, “Joint Sparsity and Low-Rank Minimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Channel Estimation,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 1688-1700, March 2024 IEEE.

[J31] L. Zeng, X. Liao, Z. Ma, B. Xiong, H. Jiang and Z. Chen, “Three-Dimensional UAV-to-UAV Channels: Modeling, Simulation, and Capacity Analysis,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 10054-10068, 15 March15, 2024.

[J30] T. Liu, X. Yang, H. Jiang, H. Zhang and Z. Chen, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enhanced Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 7441-7454, Dec. 2023. IEEE.

[J29] T. Liu, H. Jiang, Z. Yang and Z. Chen, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enhanced Massive IoT Systems With Nonlinear Measurements,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1976-1980, Nov. 2023. IEEE.

[J28] T. Liu, H. Jiang, Z. Chen, H. Zhang, X. Yang and F. Shu, “Nonlinear Channel Estimation and Signal Detection for Quantized OFDM System,” in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 2772-2776, Oct. 2023. IEEE.

[J27] Z. Chen, J. Tang, L. Huang, Z. -Q. He, K. -K. Wong and J. Wang, “Robust Target Positioning for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted MIMO Radar Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 11, pp. 15098-15102, Nov. 2023. IEEE.

[J26] L. Huang, J. Yang, K. Wei, Z. Chen and X. Zhang, “Peak Cancellation Method With IIR Filters and Its FPGA Implementation,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 9, pp. 3704-3708, Sept. 2023. IEEE.

[J25] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, X. Y. Zhang, Q. Wu, Y. Wang, D. K. C. So, S. Jin and K. -K. Wong,” Offset Learning Based Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Indoor Communication,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 41-55, Jan. 2022. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J24] Z. Chen(陈真), N. Zhao, D. K. C. So, J. Tang*, X. Y. Zhang and K. -K. Wong “Joint altitude and hybrid beamspace precoding optimization for UAV-enabled multiuser mmWave MIMO System,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 1713-1725, Feb. 2022. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J23] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, X. Y. Zhang, Q. Wu, G. Chen and K. -K. Wong, “ Robust Hybrid Beamforming Design for Multi-RIS Assisted MIMO System with Imperfect CSI,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022. doi: 10.1109/TWC. 2022.3222218. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J22] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, N. Zhao, M. Liu and D. K. C. So, “ Hybrid Beamforming with Discrete Phase Shifts for RIS-assisted Multiuser SWIPT System,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2022.doi: 10.1109/LWC.2022.3218332. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J21] Z. Chen(陈真), G. Chen, J. Tang*; S. Zhang, D. K. C. So, O. A. Dobre, K. -K. Wong and J. Chambers, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted B5G/6G Wireless Communications: Challenges, Solution and Future Opportunities,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 16-22, January 2023. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J20] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, X. Y. Zhang, D. K. C. So, S. Jin and K. -K. Wong, “ Hybrid Evolutionary-Based Sparse Channel Estimation for IRS-Assisted mmWave MIMO Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1586-1601, March 2022. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

[J19] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, M. Wen, Z. Li, J. Yang, X. Y. Zhang and K. -K. Wong, “ Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted MEC Offloading in NOMA-Enabled IoT Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023. (early access) IEEE.

[J18] Z. Su, W. Feng, J. Tang*, Z. Chen(陈真), N Zhao and K. -K. Wong, “Energy-Efficiency Optimization for D2D Communications Underlaying UAV-Assisted Industrial IoT Networks With SWIPT,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1990-2002, 1 Feb.1, 2023. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J17] Y. Song, J. Tang*, C. Lin, W. Feng, Z. Chen(陈真) and K. -K. Wong, “Energy Efficiency Optimization for PSOAM Mode-Groups Based MIMO-NOMA Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 5679-5692, Aug. 2022. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[J16] 陈真, 唐杰, 杜晓宇, 章秀银. 无人机辅助多用户毫米波MIMO系统的透镜波束预编码技术研究[J]. 电子与信息学报, 2022, 44(3): 844-851. PDF. Link. BIBTEX.

[J15] Z. Chen(陈真), Y. Fu, Y. Xiang, J. Xu R. Rong, “A Novel Low-rank Model for MRI Using the Redundant Wavelet Tight Frame,” Neurocomputing, vol.289, pp.180-187, 2018.

[J14] Z. Chen(陈真), C. Huang and S. Lin, “A new sparse representation framework for compressed sensing MRI,” Knowledge-Based Systems Online. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/ knosys.2019.104969.

[J13] Z. Chen(陈真), Y. Xiang, P. Zhang and J. Hu, “Robust compressed sensing MRI based on combined nonconvex regularization,” Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023.

[J12] Z. Chen(陈真), Y Fu, Y Xiang, Y Zhu, “A novel MR image denoising via LRMA and NLSS,” Signal processing, vol, 185, pp.101-109, 2022.

[J11] Z. Chen(陈真), J Hu, X Qiu, W. Jiang, “Kernel ridge regression-based TV regularization for motion correction of dynamic MRI,” Signal Processing, 2022, 197: 108-119.

[J10] Z. Chen(陈真), Y. Fu, Y. Xiang, J. Xu, R. Rong, “A Novel Iterative Shrinkage Algorithm for CS-MRI via Adaptive Regularization,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.24, no.10, pp.1443-1447, 2017. IEEE.

[J9] Z. Chen(陈真), Z. Zhou, A. Saifullah, “Joint Low-rank Prior and Difference of Gaussian Filter for Magnetic Resonance Image Denoising,” Medical & Biological Eng & Computing, vol.59, no.10, pp. 607-620, 2021.

[J8] X Qiu, Z. Chen(陈真)*, S Adnan, W. He, “Improved MR Image Denoising via Low-rank Approximation and Laplacian-of-Gaussian edge detector,” IET Image Processing, vol.14, no.12, pp.2791-2798, 2020.

[J7] Y. Fu, T. Zhu, Y. Xiang, Z. Chen(陈真) and L. Cai, “Stability Analysis of ℓ0,∞-Norm Based Convolutional Sparse Coding Using Stripe Coherence,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 5810-5823, 2020. IEEE.

[J6] R. Hu, Y. Fu, Z. Chen(陈真), J. Xu and J. Tang, “Robust DOA Estimation via Sparse Signal Reconstruction with Impulsive Noise,” in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1333-1336, June 2017. IEEE.

[J5] R. Hu, Y. Fu, Z. Chen(陈真), Y. Xiang and R. Rong, “Robust Sparse Signal Recovery in the Presence of the S αS Noise,” in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1687-1691, Nov. 2016. IEEE.

[J4] Y Fu, J Xu, Y Xiang, Z. Chen(陈真), et al, “Multi-scale patches based image denoising using weighted nuclear norm minimization,” IET Image Processing, 2020, 14(11).

[J3] R Hu, Y. Fu, Z. Chen(陈真), Y. Xiang and J. Tang, “A Lorentzian IHT for Complex-Valued Sparse Signal Recovery,” Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 2018, 37(2):862-872.

[J2] Y. Fu, Z. Chen, Y. Xiang, J. Xu and R. Rong, “An Accelerated MMP With a Pruning Tree Strategy,” in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 27115-27123, 2019. IEEE.

[J1] J. Huang, J. Tang, A. Shojaeifard, Z. Chen(陈真), J. Hu, D. K. C. So and K. -K. Wong., “Drone Mobile Networks: Performance Analysis Under 3D Tractable Mobility Models,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 90555-90567, 2021. IEEE.

Conference Papers

[C1] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, H. Tang, X. Zhang, D. K. C. So and K. -K. Wong, “Channel Estimation of IRS-Aided Communication Systems with Hybrid Multiobjective Optimization,”** ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications**, 2021, pp. 1-6. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C2] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, X. Y. Zhang, Q. Wu, S. Jin and K. -K. Wong, “Offset Learning based Channel Estimation for IRS-Assisted Indoor Communication,” 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021, pp. 01-06. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C3] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, X. Du, X. Y. Zhang, Q. Wu and K. -K. Wong, “Joint Location and Channel Error Optimization for Beamforming Design for Multi-RIS Assisted MIMO System,” 2022 IEEE 12th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), 2022, pp. 181-185. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C4] Z. Chen(陈真), J. Tang*, H. Tang, X. Zhang, D. K. C So, N. Zhao, K.-K. Wong., “Hybrid Beamforming Optimization for UAV-Enabled mmWave Beamspace MIMO System,” 2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2021, pp. 638-643. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C5] Z Chen(陈真), J. Tang, X. Du, D. So and K.-K. Wong, “Joint Energy and Information Beamforming Design for RIS-assisted Wireless Powered Communication,” 2022 IEEE 22st International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), accepted, 2022. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C6] Z Chen(陈真)*, X. Du and L. Chen, “Compressed Sensing Based Joint Sparse Channel Estimation for RIS-Assisted Internet of Things,” 5th International Conference on Information Communication and Signal Processing (ICICSP 2022),2022, pp. 375-381. (Best Paper Award) PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C7] Z. Su, J. Tang*, W. Feng, Z Chen(陈真), Y. Fu and K. -K. Wong, “Energy Efficiency Optimization for D2D communications in UAV-assisted Networks with SWIPT,” 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021, pp. 1-7. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C8] J. Tang*, Y Song, C Lin, Z Chen(陈真), X. Y. Zhang and K. -K. Wong, “Energy Efficiency Optimization for Plane Spiral OAM Mode-Group Based MIMO-NOMA Systems” International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham, 2021,pp.177–188. PDF. springer. BIBTEX.

[C9] J. Tang*, C. Lin, Y. Song, Y. Yu, Z Chen(陈真), X. Zhang, D. K. C. So, and K. K. Wong, “Energy efficient resource allocation for UCA-based OAM-MIMO system,” Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 396, 2021. PDF. IEEE. BIBTEX.

[C10] Z Chen(陈真)*, J. Tang, J. Zhang, P. Zhang, S. Zhong, X. Zhang, “Power Allocation and Phase Shift Optimization for RIS-Assisted UAV-Enabled WPCN,” 2024 IEEE 9th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications (ICCIA 2024), 2024, pp.304-309. (Best Paper Award) IEEE.

[C11] Z Chen(陈真)*, Z. Jian and K. Fang, “Joint Power Allocation and Passive Beamforming for Distributed RIS Multiuser Networks,” 2024 IEEE 9th International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP 2024), 2024, pp.245-262. (Best Paper Award) IEEE.

Book Chapters

[BC1] RISTA-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Technology White Paper(2023) PDF. Link.