Selected Journal Papers:

[J37]B. Ning, W. Mei, L. Zhu, Z. Chen, and R. Zhang, “Codebook Design and Performance Analysis for Wideband Beamforming in THz Communications,” submitted toIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[J36] S. Sun,W. Mei, F. Yang, N. An, J. Song, and R. Zhang, "Optical Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted MIMO VLC: Channel Modeling and Capacity Characterization," submitted toIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. [Available on arXiv]

[J35] M. Fu,W. Mei*, and R. Zhang, “Multi-Active/Passive-IRS Enabled Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Active IRS Deployment and Performance Analysis,”IEEE Communications Letters, early access. [Available on arXiv]

[J34] P. Wang,W. Mei*, J. Fang, and R. Zhang, “Target-Mounted Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Joint Location and Orientation Estimation,” submitted toIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on 5G/6G Precise Positioning on Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV). [Available on arXiv]

[J33] B. Ning, Z. Tian,W. Mei, Z. Chen, C. Han, S. Li, J. Yuan, and R. Zhang, “Beamforming Technologies for Ultra-Massive MIMO in Terahertz Communications,”IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society,vol. 4, pp. 614-658, 2023.

[J32] X. Pang,W. Mei*, N. Zhao, and R. Zhang, "Cellular Sensing via Cooperative Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces,"IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, early access.

[J31]W. Meiand R. Zhang, “Joint Base Station and IRS Deployment for Enhancing Network Coverage: A Graph-Based Modeling and Optimization Approach,”IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Early Access. [Available on arXiv]

[J30] Y. Huang,W. Mei*, and R. Zhang, “Empowering base stations with co-site intelligent reflecting surfaces: user association, channel estimation and reflection optimization,”IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 4940-4955, May 2022. [Available on arXiv]

[J29] X. Pang,W. Mei*, N. Zhao, and R. Zhang, "Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Interference Mitigation for Cellular-Connected UAV,"IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1708-1712, Aug. 2022.

[J28] C. You, B. Zheng,W. Mei, and R. Zhang, "How to Deploy Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in Wireless Network: BS-side, User-side, or Both Sides?"Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-10, March 2022.(Invited Paper)

[J27]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Multi-Path Beam Routing with Active/Passive Beam Splitting and Combining,”IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1165-1169, May 2022. [Available on arXiv]

[J26] B. Zheng, C. You,W. Mei, and R. Zhang, "A Survey on Channel Estimation and Practical Passive Beamforming Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Communications, "IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1035-1071, Second quarter 2022. [Available on arXiv]

[J25]W. Mei*, B. Zheng, C. You, and R. Zhang, "Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Networks: From Single-Reflection to Multi-Reflection Design and Optimization, "Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 110, no. 9, pp. 1380-1400, Sep. 2022.(Invited Paper)[Available on arXiv]

[J24]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Distributed Beam Training for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Multi-Hop Routing,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 2489-2493, Nov. 2021. [Available on arXiv]

[J23]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Multi-Beam Multi-Hop Routing for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Aided Massive MIMO,”IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1897-1912, Mar. 2022. [Available on arXiv]

[J22]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Cooperative Beam Routing for Multi-IRS Aided Communication,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 426-430, Feb. 2021. [Available on arXiv]

[J21]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Performance analysis and user association optimization for wireless network aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces,”IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 6296-6312, Sept. 2021. [Available on arXiv]

[J20]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Uplink Cooperative Interference Cancellation for Cellular-Connected UAV: A Quantize-and-Forward Approach,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1567-1571, Sept. 2020. [Available on arXiv]

[J19]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Aerial-Ground Interference Mitigation for Cellular-Connected UAV,”IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 167-173, Feb. 2021.

[J18]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “UAV-Sensing-Assisted Cellular Interference Coordination: A Cognitive Radio Approach,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 799–803, Jun. 2020. [Available on arXiv]

[J17]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Cooperative NOMA for Downlink Asymmetric Interference Cancellation,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 884–888, Jun. 2020. [Available on arXiv]

[J16] X. Lin,W. Mei, and R. Zhang, “A New Store-then-Amplify-and-Forward Protocol for UAV Mobile Relaying,”IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 591-595, May 2020. [Available on arXiv]

[J15]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Cooperative Downlink Interference Transmission and Cancellation for Cellular-Connected UAV: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach,”IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1297-1311, Feb. 2020. [Available on arXiv]

[J14]W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Uplink cooperative NOMA for cellular-connected UAV,”IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 644–656, Jun. 2019. [Available on arXiv](ESI Highly Cited)

[J13]W. Mei, Q. Wu, and R. Zhang, “Cellular-connected UAV: uplink association, power control and interference coordination,”IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 5380–5393, Nov. 2019. [Available on arXiv]

[J12] Q. Wu,W. Mei*and R. Zhang, “Safeguarding Wireless Networks with UAV: A Physical Layer Security Perspective,’’IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 12–18, Oct. 2019. [Available on arXiv]

[J11] Y. Huang,W. Mei, J. Xu, L. Qiu, and R. Zhang, “Cognitive UAV communication via joint maneuver and power control,”IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 7872–7888, Nov. 2019. [Available on arXiv]

[J10]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and S. Li, "Confidential Broadcasting and Service Integration in Millimeter Wave Systems,"IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 147-158, Mar. 2019.

[J9]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and S. Li, "Physical Layer Service Integration in 5G: Potentials and Challenges,"IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 16563-16575, 2018.

[J8]W. Mei, Z. Chen, L. Li, J. Fang, and S. Li, "On Artificial-Noise-Aided Transmit Design for Multiuser MISO Systems With Integrated Services,"IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 8179-8195, Sep. 2017. [Available on arXiv]

[J7]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, "Artificial Noise Aided Energy Efficiency Optimization in MIMOME System With SWIPT,"IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1795-1798, Aug. 2017.

[J6] Q. Wang, Z. Chen,W. Mei, and J. Fang, "Improving Physical Layer Security Using UAV-Enabled Mobile Relaying,"IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 310-313, Jun. 2017.

[J5]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, "Energy Efficiency Region for Gaussian MISO Channels With Integrated Services,"IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 90-93, Feb. 2017.

[J4]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, "GSVD-Based Precoding in MIMO Systems With Integrated Services,"IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1528-1532, Nov. 2016. [Available on arXiv]

[J3]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, "Secrecy Capacity Region Maximization in Gaussian MISO Channels With Integrated Services,"IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1146-1150, Aug. 2016.

[J2]W. Mei, Z. Chen, J. Fang, and S. Li, "Artificial noise-aided biobjective transmitter optimization for service integration in multi-user MIMO broadcast channel,"EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2017(132).

[J1] S. Huang,W. Mei*, and S. Fang, "Robust artificial noise-aided transmit optimisation for MISO wiretap channel with device-to-device underlay communication,"IET Communications, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 1019-1027, 2016.

(*: Corresponding Author)

Selected Conference Papers:

[C15]W. Meiand R. Zhang, “Cooperative Multi-Beam Routing for Multi-IRS Aided Massive MIMO” in Proc.IEEE Conf. Commun. (ICC),Montreal, Canada, Jun. 2021. [Available on arXiv](ICC Best Paper Award)
[C14]W. Meiand R. Zhang, “Joint Base Station-IRS-User Association in Multi-IRS-Aided Wireless Network” in Proc.IEEEGlobal Commun. Conf. (Globecom), Taipei, Dec. 2020.
[C13]W. Meiand R. Zhang, “Cooperative Downlink Interference Transmission and Cancellation for Cellular-Connected UAV,” inProc.IEEEGlobal Commun. Conf. (Globecom), Waikoloa, HI, USA, Dec. 2019.
[C12]W. Mei, Q. Wu, and R. Zhang, “Cellular-Connected UAV: Uplink Association, Power Control and Interference Coordination,” inProc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (Globecom), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2018.
[C11]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and S. Li, “Efficient Implementation of Confidential Broadcasting in Millimeter Wave Systems,” inProc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (Globecom) Wkshps, Singapore, Dec. 2017.
[C10]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, “Outage-Constrained Secure D2D Underlay Communication with Arbitrarily Distributed CSI Uncertainty,” inProc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (Globecom), Singapore, Dec. 2017.
[C9]W. Mei, Z. Chen, J. Fang, and B. Ning, “Energy efficiency optimization for MISO wiretap channels with statistical and imperfect CSI,“ inProc. IEEE Int. Wkshps. Sig. Proc. Adv. Wireless Commun. (SPAWC), Sapporo, Japan, Jul. 2017.
[C8]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, “Robust Sum Secrecy Rate Optimization for MISO Systems with Device-to-Device Communication,” inProc. IEEE 85st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Sydney, Jun. 2017.
[C7]W. Mei, Z. Chen, J. Fang, and B. Fu, “Secure D2D-enabled cellular communication against selective eavesdropping,“ inProc. IEEE Conf. Commun. (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017.
[C6]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, “Sum secrecy rate optimization for MIMOME wiretap channel with artificial noise and D2D underlay communication,“ inProc. IEEE Conf. Commun. (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017.
[C5]W. Mei, W. Kong, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, “Biobjective transmitter optimization for service integration in MIMO Gaussian broadcast channel,“ inProc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), New Orleans, Mar. 2017, pp. 3644-3648.
[C4]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and J. Fang, “Robust energy-efficient transmit design for MISOME wiretap channels,“ inProc. IEEE Global Conf. Signal Info. Process. (GlobalSIP), Washington D.C., Dec. 2016, pp. 981-985.
[C3]W. Mei, L. Li, Z. Chen, and C. Huang, “Artificial-noise aided transmit design for outage constrained service integration,” inProc. IEEE Conf. Commun. (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May. 2016.
[C2]W. Mei, Z. Chen, and C. Huang, “Robust artificial-noise aided transmit design for multi-user MISO systems with integrated services,” inProc. IEEE IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Shanghai, Mar. 2016, pp. 3856-3860.
[C1]W. Mei, L. Li, Z. Chen, and C. Huang, “Artificial-noise aided transmit design for multi-user MISO systems with integrated services,” inProc. IEEE Global Conf. Signal Info. Process. (GlobalSIP), Orlando, FL, Dec. 2015, pp. 1382-1386.