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Recent Journal Publications (refereed): 

1.     B. Wu, F. Fang, X. Wang, D. Cai, S. Fu, and Z. Ding, “Fuzzy based Client Orchestration and Cost-Efficient Joint Optimization for Hierarchical Federated Learning over NOMA Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Sept. 2023. (Link)

2.     Y. Fu, X. Wang and F. Fang, “Multi-Objective Multi-Dimensional Resource Allocation for Categorized QoS Provisioning in Beyond 5G and 6G Radio Access Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Nov. 2023. (Early Access: Link)

3.     B. Wu, F. Fang, and X. Wang, “Joint Age-based Client Selection and Resource Allocation for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning over NOMA Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Sept. 2023. (Early Access: Link)

4.     H. Li, C. Sun, X. Li, F. Fang, Q. Fan, X. Wang, and V. C.M. Leung, “Intelligent Content Caching and User Association in Multi-Access Edge Computing for Smart Cities,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Sept. 2023. (Early Access: Link)

5.     T. Wang, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Joint Beamforming and Phase Shift Design in a Multi-User MISO STAR-RIS Assisted Downlink NOMA Network,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 9031-9043, Feb. 2023. (Early Access: Link)

6.     L. Yuan, Q. Du, N. Yang, F. Fang, and N. Yang, “Performance Analysis RIS-aided Short-Packet NOMA Systems over Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 8228-8233, Feb. 2023. (Link)

7.     F. Fang, B. Wu, S. Fu, Z. Ding and X. Wang, “Energy-Efficient Design of STAR-RIS aided MIMO-NOMA networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 498-511, Jan. 2023. (Link)

8.     Y. Guo, F. Fang, D. Cai, and Zhiguo Ding, “Energy-Efficient Design for NOMA assisted STAR- RISs Network with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 5424-5428, Nov. 2022. (Link)

9.     S. Fu, X. Guo, F. Fang, N. Zhang, Z. Ding, and H. Zhang, “Towards Energy-Efficient Data Collection by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Station with NOMA for Emergency Communications in IoT,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 1211-1233, Jan. 2023. (Link)

10.  L. Yuan, Q. Du, F. Fang, “Performance Analysis of Full-Duplex Cooperative NOMA Short-Packet Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 13409-13414, Aug. 2022. (Link)

11.  X. Feng, S. Fu, F. Fang, Y. F. Richard, “Optimizing Age of Information in RIS-Assisted NOMA Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 2100-2104, July 2022. (Link)

12.  X. Li, Z. Xu, F. Fang, Q. Fan, X. Wang, and V. C.M. Leung, “Task Offloading for Deep Learning Empowered Automatic Speech Analysis in Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, May, 2022. (Early Access: Link)

13.  Z. Ding, L. Lv, F. Fang, O. Dobre. G. K. Karagiannidis, N. Dhahir, R. Shober, and H. Poor, “A State-of-the-Art Survey on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 110, no. 9, pp. 1358-1379, May 2022. (Link)

14.  N. Deepa, Q.-V. Pham, D. C. Nguyen, S. Bhattacharya, P. Boopathy, T. R. Gadekallu, P. K. R. Maddikunta, F. Fang, and P. N. Pathirana, “A Survey on Blockchain for Big Data: Approaches, Opportunities and Future Directions,” Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 131, no. 6, pp. 209-226, 2022. (Link)

15.  T. Wang, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “An SCA and Relaxation Based Energy Efficiency Optimization for Multi-User RIS-Assisted NOMA,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, pp. 6843-6847, Mar. 2022.  (Link)

16.  L. Yuan, N. Yang, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Performance Analysis of UAV-Assisted Short-Packet Cooperative Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 4471-4476, Jan. 2022. (Link)

17.  G. Yin, X. Zhou, P. Ma, F. Fang, and P. Zhao, “Joint Trajectory Design and Power Allocation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aided Secure Transmission in The Presence of No-Fly Zone,” IET Communications, pp. 172-186, Jan. 2022. (Link)

18.  L. Yuan, N. Yang, F. Fang, Q. Du, and Z, Zheng, “Optimal Power Allocation for Finite Blocklength Cooperative NOMA with Coordinated Direct and Relay Transmission,” IEEE Wireless Communications letters, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 523-527, Mar. 2022. (Link)

19.  B. Wu, F. Fang, and S. Fu, “Improving the Performance of Terrestrial-Satellite Relay Networks by Configuring Aerial Relay,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 13139-13148, Dec. 2021. (Link)

20.  S. Fu, B. Wu, S. Wu, and F. Fang, “Multi-Resources Management in 6G-Oriented Terrestrial-Satellite Network,” China Communications, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 24-36, Sept. 2021. (Link)

21.  X. Xie, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Joint Optimization of Beamforming, Phase-Shifting and Power Allocation in a Multi-cluster IRS-NOMA Network,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 7705-7717, Aug. 2021. (Link)

22.  Y. Dursun, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “NOMA based MIMO offloading for Mobile Edge Computing,” China Communications, 2021. (Early Access: Link)

23.  F. Fang, K. Wang, Z. Ding, and V. C. M. Leung, “Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for NOMA-MEC Networks with Imperfect CSI,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 3436-3449, May 2021. (Link)

24.  H. Li, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “DRL-Assisted Resource Allocation for NOMA-MEC Offloading with Hybrid SIC,” Entropy. 2021; 23(5): 613. (Invited Paper: Link)

25.  Z. Zheng, L. Yuan, and F. Fang, “Performance Analysis of Fountain Coded Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Finite Blocklength,” IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 1752-1756, Aug. 2021. (Link)

26.  F. Fang, Y. Xu, Q.-V. Pham, and Z. Ding “Energy-Efficient Design for IRS-NOMA Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 14088-14092, Nov. 2020. (Link)

27.  F. Fang, Y. Xu, Z. Ding, C. Shen, M. Peng, and G. K. Karagiannidis, “Optimal Resource Allocation for Delay Minimization in NOMA-MEC Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 7867-7881, Dec. 2020. (Link)

28.  F. Fang, G. Ye, H. Zhang, J. Cheng, and V. C. M. Leung, “Energy Efficient Joint User Association and Power Allocation in a Heterogeneous Network,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 7008-7020, Nov. 2020. (Link)

29.  K. Wang, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Sub-channel Scheduling, Task Assignment, and Power Allocation for OMA-based and NOMA-based MEC Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2692-2708, Dec. 2020. (Link)

30.  S. Jiao, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Joint Beamforming and Phase Shift Design in Downlink UAV Networks with IRS-Assisted NOMA,” Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN), 2020. (Link)

31.  A. Sena, D. Carrillo, F. Fang, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. Costa, U. S. Dias, Z. Ding, C. B. Papadias, and W. Saad, “What role does intelligent reflecting surfaces play in non-orthogonal multiple access?” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 24-31, Oct. 2020. (Link)

32.  Q.-V. Pham, F. Fang, V. N. Ha, M. J. Piran, M. Le, L. B. Le, W. Hwang, and Z. Ding, “A Survey of Multi- Access Edge Computing in 5G and Beyond: Fundamentals, Technology Integration, and State-of- the-Art,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 116974-117017, 2020, July 2020. (Link)

33.  H. Li, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Joint Resource Allocation for Hybrid NOMA Assisted MEC in 6G Networks”, Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 241-252, 2020. (Invited Paper: Link)

34.  Y. Xu, D. Cai, F. Fang, Z. Ding, C. Shen, and G. Zhu, “Outage Constrained Power Efficient Design for Downlink NOMA Systems With Partial HARQ,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 5188-5201, Aug. 2020. (Link)

35.  J. Zhu, J. Wang, Y. Huang, F. Fang, K. Navaie, and Z. Ding, “Optimal resource allocation in hybrid NOMA MEC systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 4964-4977, July 2020. (Link)

36.  L. Yang, H. Jiang, Q. Ye, Z. Ding, F. Fang, J. Shi, J. Chen, and X. Xue, “Opportunistic Adaptive Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Multiuser Wireless Systems: Probabilistic User Scheduling and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 6065-6082, Sept. 2020. (Link)

37.  F. Fang, Z. Ding, W. Liang, and H. Zhang, “Optimal Energy Efficient Power Allocation with User Fairness for Uplink MC-NOMA Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1133-1136, Aug. 2019. (Link)

38.  F. Fang, J. Cheng, and Z. Ding, “Joint Energy Efficient Subchannel and Power Optimization for a Downlink NOMA Heterogeneous Network,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1351-1364, Feb. 2019. (Link)

39.  F. Shu, F. Fang, L. Zhao, Z. Ding, and X. Jian, “Joint Transmission Scheduling and Power Allocation in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA),” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 8137-8150, Sept. 2019. (Link)

40.  H. Zhang, F. Fang, J. Cheng, W. Wang, K. Long, and V. C. M. Leung, “Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in NOMA Heterogeneous Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 48-53, Apr. 2018. (Link)

41.  F. Fang, H. Zhang, J. Cheng, S. Roy, and V. C. M. Leung, “Joint User Scheduling and Power Allocation Optimization for Energy Efficient NOMA Systems with Imperfect CSI,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 2874-2885, Dec. 2017. (Web of Science Highly Cited Paper, Link)

42.  F. Fang, H. Zhang, J. Cheng, and V. C. M. Leung, “Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Network,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3722-3732, July 2016. (Web of Science Highly Cited Paper, Link)

43.  J. Ren, Z. Wang, M. Xu, F. Fang, Z. Ding, “An EM-based User Clustering Method in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 8422-8434, Oct. 2019. (Link)

44.  M. Vaezi, G. Amarasuriya, Y. Liu, A. Arafa, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Interplay Between NOMA and Other Emerging Technologies: A Survey,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 900-919, Aug. 2019. (Link)

45.  X. Wen, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, and F. Fang, “Interference Pricing Resource Allocation and User-Subchannel Matching for NOMA Hierarchy Fog Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics on Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 467-479, June 2019. (Link)

46.  D. Cai, Y. Xu, F. Fang, Z. Ding, and P. Fan, “On the Impact of Time-Correlated Fading for Downlink NOMA,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 4419-4504, Mar. 2019. (Link)

Conference Proceedings

1.     G. Qiang, F, Fang, and X. Wang, “Security and Efficiency Enhancement for Split Learning: A Machine Learning Based Malicious Clients Detection Approach,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, 2023.

2.     S. Mokhtari, F. Fang, and X. Wang, “Power Optimization in RIS-Assisted P-NOMA for Full-Duplex 6G Vehicular Networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Toronto, Canada, 2023.

3.     L. Zhuang, J. Zhu, Z. Zhang, F. Fang, and L. Liu, “Joint Position and Beamforming Optimization for IRS-assisted Secure Transmission,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023. (Accepted)

4.     M. H. Alishahi, Paul Fortier, M. Zeng, F. Fang and L. Aohan, “Latency Minimization in Wireless-Powered Federated Learning Networks With NOMA,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Toronto, Canada, Sept. 2023. (Accepted)

5.     B. Wu, F. Fang, and X. Wang, “Time Minimization in AoU based Federated Learning over NOMA Networks,” EAI GameNets, 2023. (Best Paper Award)

6.     C. Zhang, F. Fang, and C. Zhang, “A Self-Supervised GCN Model for Link Scheduling in Downlink NOMA Networks,” EAI GameNets, 2023.

7.     R. Cheng, X. Zhou, H. Zhang, F. Fang, and D. Yuan, “Non-orthogonal Multiple Access in SWIPT Enabled Cooperative D2D Network,” IEEE ICCC, Chongqing, China, 2020, pp. 62-67. (Link)

8.     H. Li, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Joint Resource Allocation for NOMA Assisted MEC Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, Dublin, Ireland, 2020. (Link)

9.     F. Fang, K. Wang, and Z. Ding, “Optimal Task Assignment and Power Allocation for Downlink NOMA MEC Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference workshops, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2019. (Link)

10.  F. Fang, Y. Xu, Z. Ding, C. Shen, M. Peng, and G. K. Karagiannidis, “Optimal Task Partition and Power allocation for Mobile Edge Computing with NOMA,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2019), Waikoloa, HI, USA. (Link)

11.  K. Wang, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Joint Optimization of Task Assignment and Power Allocation for NOMA-aided MEC System,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2019), Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2019. (Link)

12.  Y. Wen, X. Zhou, F. Fang, H. Zhang, and D. Yuan, “Nash Bargaining Based Power Allocation and Relay Selection for Cooperative NOMA Aided Spectrum Sharing Systems,” Proceedings of IEEE ICNC, Hawaii, USA, 2020. (Link)

13.  J. Zhu, J. Wang, Y. Huang, F. Fang, K. Navaie, and Z. Ding, “Resource Allocation for NOMA MEC Offloading,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2019), Waikoloa, USA. (Link)

14.  J. Ren, Z. Wang, M. Xu, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Unsupervised User Clustering in Non-orthogonal Multiple Access,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019. (Link)

15.  Y. Xu, D. Cai, F. Fang, Z. Ding, C. Shen, and G. Zhu “Outage Analysis and Power Allocation for HARQ-CC Enabled NOMA Downlink Transmission,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2018), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2018. (Link)

16.  W. Liang, L. Li, J. Shi, F. Fang, and Z. Ding, “Cooperative Game Aided Spectrum Sharing in Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks Employing NOMA Schemes,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshops, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2018. (Link)

17.  D. Cai, Y. Xu, F. Fang, S. Yan, and P. Fan, “Outage Probability of NOMA with Partial HARQ over Time-Correlated Fading Channels,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshops, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2018. (Link)

18.  F. Fang, J. Cheng, Z. Ding, and H. V. Poor, “Energy efficient resource optimization for a downlink NOMA heterogeneous small-cell network,” Proceedings of IEEE SAM Workshop 2018, Sheffield, UK, July 2018. (Link)

19.  F. Fang, H. Zhang, Julian Cheng, and Victor C. M. Leung, “Energy-Efficient Resource Scheduling for NOMA Systems with Imperfect Channel State Information,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017), Paris, France, May 2017. (Link)

20.  F. Fang, H. Zhang, J. Cheng, and V. C. M. Leung, “Energy Efficiency of Resource Scheduling for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Wireless Network,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. (Link)