Journal Papers

(# denotes corresponding author)
  1. E. Zhang, L. Liang, L. You, Z. Wang, D. Wang, and L. Fu, “High-Rate Uncoordinated Concurrent Random Access in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025.
  2. Z. Zhao, Z. Wang, L. Zhou, C. Sun, S. Zhang, N. Al-Dhahir, and L. Liang, “Over-the-Air Diagnosis of Defective Elements in Intelligent Reflecting Surface,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2025.
  3. L. You, Y. Wang, S. Liu, Y. Tan, Z. Wang#, and S. C. Liew, “Improving Wi-Fi Cooperative Broadcast with Fine-Grained Channel Estimation,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025.
  4. X. Han, H. Pan, Z. Wang, and J. Li, “Successive Interference Cancellation-Enabled Timely Status Update in Linear Multi-hop Wireless Networks,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025.
  5. Z. Wang, Y.-F. Liu, and Z. Wang, “Covariance-Based Activity Detection in Cooperative Multi-Cell Massive MIMO,”'' Mobile Communications, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 122 - 129, 2025.
  6. R. Wang, Z. Wang, L. Liu, S. Zhang, and S. Jin, “Reducing Channel Estimation and Feedback Overhead in IRS-Aided Downlink System: A Quantize-then-Estimate Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1325 - 1338, Feb. 2025. [IEEE Xplore]
  7. Z. Wang, Y.-F. Liu, Z. Wang, and W. Yu, “Covariance-Based Activity Detection in Cooperative Multi-Cell Massive MIMO: Scaling Law and Efficient Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 8770 - 8790, Dec. 2024. [IEEE Xplore] [arXiv]
  8. P. Wu, Q. Liu, Y. Dong, Z. Wang, and F. Wang, “LMaaS: Exploring Pricing Strategy of Large Model as a Service for Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 12748 - 12760, Dec. 2024. [IEEE Xplore]
  9. W. Wang, M. Zhu, K. Shen#, Z. Wang#, and S. Cui, “Power Allocation for Finite-Blocklength IR-HARQ,” IEEE Communications Letters (CL), vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 2673 - 2677, Nov. 2024. [IEEE Xplore]
  10. H. Pan, S. Yang, T. T. Chan, Z. Wang, C. M. Leung, and J. Li, “SC-PNC: Semantic Communication-Empowered Physical-layer Network Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1160 - 1174, Aug. 2024. [arXiv]
  11. Z. Wang, Y.-F. Liu, Z. Wang, L. Liu, H. Pan, and S. Cui, “Device Activity Detection in mMTC with Low-Resolution ADC: A New Protocol,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 5847 - 5862, Jun. 2024. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  12. L. You, Z. Tang, P. Wang, Z. Wang, H. Dai, and L. F, “Quick and Reliable LoRa Physical-Layer Data Aggregation through Multi-Packet Reception,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 1616 - 1630, Apr. 2024. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  13. Z. Wang, L. Liu, and S. Cui, “Channel Estimation in Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Communications,” Radio Communications Technology, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 238 - 244, Feb. 2024.  (Invited Paper) 
  14. Z. Wang, L. Liu, S. Zhang, and S. Cui, “Massive MIMO Communication with Intelligent Reflecting Surface,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 2566 - 2582, Apr. 2023. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  15. Z. Wang, L. Liu, S. Zhang, P. Dong, Q. Yang, and T. Wang, “PNC Enabled IIoT: A General Framework for Channel-Coded Asymmetric Physical-Layer Network Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 10335 - 10350, Dec. 2022. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  16. Z. Wang, Y.-F. Liu, and L. Liu, “Covariance-Based Joint Device Activity and Delay Detection in Asynchronous mMTC,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), vol. 29, pp. 538 - 542, Jan. 2022. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore] [Matlab Code]
  17. Z. Wang, L. Liu, and S. Cui, “Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Multiuser Communications: Framework, Algorithms, and Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 6607-6620, Oct. 2020. (ESI Hot Paper, ESI Highly Cited Paper) [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore] [Matlab Code]
  18. Z. Wang, L. Liu, H. Li, and S. Cui, “Intelligent Reflecting Surface Design for 6G-Assisted Internet of Things,” Chinese Journal on Internet of Things, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 84-95, Jun. 2020.  (Invited Paper) 
  19. Z. Wang and S. C. Liew, “Coherent Detection for Short-Packet Physical-Layer Network Coding with FSK Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 279-292, Jan. 2020. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  20. Z. Wang, S. C. Liew, and L. Lu, “Noncoherent Detection for Physical-Layer Network Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 6901-6916, Oct. 2018. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]

Conference Papers

  1. E. Zhang, L. Liang, L. You, Z. Wang, D. Wang, and L. Fu, “Enabling Uncoordinated Random Access in Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Networks,” submitted to IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2025.
  2. Y. Wang, S. Liu, L. You, Y. Tan, Z. Wang, and L. Fu, “Efficient Channel Estimation for Cooperative Broadcast in Infrastructure-based Vehicle Networks,” submitted to IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2025.
  3. X. Liu, Y. Sun, Z. Wang#, L. You, H. Pan, F. Wang, and S. Cui, “Receiver-Centric Generative Semantic Communications,” to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025. [arxiv] [Github] [System Demo Video]
  4. M. Zhu, Y. Sun, L. You, Z. Wang#, Y.-F. Liu, and S. Cui, “Rethinking Grant-Free Protocol in mMTC,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024. [arxiv] [Matlab Code]
  5. Z. Zhao, Z. Wang, S. Zhang, and L. Liu, “Finding Defective Elements in Intelligent Reflecting Surface via Over-the-Air Measurements,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024. [arxiv]
  6. E. Zhang, L. Liang, L. You, and Z. Wang, “Enabling Concurrent Random Access in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” in Proc. ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2024. [Poster]
  7. L. You, S. Liu, W. Xie, Z. Wang#, Y. Tan, and S. C. Liew, “Improving Cooperative Wi-Fi Broadcast with Fine-Grained Channel Estimation,” in Proc. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2024. [IEEE Xplore] [System Demo Video]
  8. W. Xie, E. Zhang, L. You, D. Wang, Z. Wang, and L. Fu, “Combating Multi-path Interference to Improve Chirp-based Underwater Acoustic Communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024. [arXiv]
  9. Z. Wang, Y.-F. Liu, Z. Wang, and W. Yu, “Scaling Law Analysis for Covariance Based Activity Detection in Multi-Cell Massive MIMO,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  10. R. Wang, Z. Wang, L. Liu, S. Zhang, and S. Jin, “A Quantize-then-Estimate Protocol for CSI Acquisition in IRS-Aided Downlink Communication,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023. [arXiv]
  11. S. Yang, H. Pan, T. T. Chan, and Z. Wang, “Semantic Communication-Empowered Physical-layer Network Coding,” in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2023. [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  12. Z. Wang, L. Liu, and S. Cui, “Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Massive MIMO Communications,” in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2020. (Invited Paper) (Popular Article) [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  13. Z. Wang, L. Liu, and S. Cui, “Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Multiuser Communications,” in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2020. (Popular Article) [arXiv] [IEEE Xplore]
  14. Z. Wang, S. C. Liew, and L. Lu, “Optimal Noncoherent Detection for Physical-Layer Network Coding,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018. [IEEE Xplore]
  15. Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, S. Wang, Y. Xiao, and L. Dan, “A Low-Complexity Detection Algorithm for Spatial Modulation Systems,” in Proc. International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2014. [IEEE Xplore]

Patents

  1. Chinese Patent CN104168049A, “A Signal Detection Method for Generalized Spatial Modulation in MIMO,” February 2015.
  2. Chinese Patent CN104333434B, “Reduced-Complexity Detector for Spatial Modulation,” November 2014.