NIULAB
Network Intelligence for Ubiquitous Linkage and Broadband, Tsinghua University
NIULAB focuses on network intelligence, ubiquitous connectivity, and broadband wireless systems, advancing fundamental theory and real-world applications for 6G and beyond.
Research Themes
Advancing Network Intelligence for 6G and Beyond
Theme 01Edge Intelligence
Bringing AI capabilities to the network edge through efficient inference, federated learning, and cloud-edge-end collaboration for intelligent wireless systems.
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Theme 02Vehicular & Autonomous Systems
Enabling cooperative autonomous driving through collaborative perception, V2X communications, and intelligent vehicular networks.
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Theme 03Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks
Designing cellular-connected drone networks with intelligent coverage, mobility management, and UAV-assisted communication.
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Theme 04AI-Native Networking
Architecting next-generation networks with native AI capabilities for autonomous network management and intelligent resource optimization.
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Theme 05Green Wireless Systems
Developing energy-efficient wireless communication technologies and green edge intelligence for sustainable network evolution.
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Faculties
2
Ph.D. Students
11
Jintao Yan
Federated Learning
Continual Learning
Bowen Xie
Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks
AI for Network
Baokang Fan
Autonomous Networked Systems
Multi-Agent Collaboration
Yunchu Han
Mobile Edge Computing
Green Edge Intelligence
Jialin Dong
Speculative Decoding
Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration
Ziyi Song
Collaborative Perception
Cooperative Autonomous Driving
Jiawen Zhang
Low-Altitude Intelligent Networking
Collaborative Perception (V2X)
Wencheng Yan
AI for Networking
Edge Intelligence
Xiankun Zeng
Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks
AI for Communication
Hang Yu
Collaborative Perception
Cooperative Autonomous Driving
Zeyi Ren
AI/ML in RAN
Spatial Intelligence
Master Students
5
Chenbing Wang
Wireless Communication
Eunsang Lee
Low-Altitude Network
Cellular Connected Drone Network
Vardan Vardanyan
collaborative perception in autonomous driving
Binrui Xu
Intent-Driven System Design
Autonomous Networked Systems
Yilin Zhao
Active Perception and Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition
Adaptive Reasoning and Real-Time Decision-Making
Recent Publications
Conference Papers
2026
[AAAI]
"UniMM-V2X: MoE-Enhanced Multi-Level Fusion for End-to-End Cooperative Autonomous Driving"
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in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
2026
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[IEEE INFOCOM]
"Task Profiling and Draft Model Selection for Accelerating Distributed Speculative Decoding"
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in IEEE INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications,
2026
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[IEEE VTC]
"SparseCoM: Fully Sparse Collaborative Perception via Mixture of BEV Experts"
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in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring),
2026
Conference acceptance list
[IEEE ICC]
"Learning to Jointly Optimize Antenna Positioning and Beamforming for Movable Antenna-Aided Systems"
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in ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications,
2026
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[IEEE VTC]
"DRIVE: Dynamic Residual Information Exchange for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception in Autonomous Driving"
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in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2026-Spring),
2026
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[Lecture Notes in Computer Science]
"DH-VLM: Dual-Horizon Cooperative Latent Reasoning for Autonomous Driving"
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in Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
2026
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[2026 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)]
"CoSTr: Fully Sparse Transformer with Mutual Information for Pragmatic Collaborative Perception"
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in 2026 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN),
2026
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DOI
2025
[IEEE GLOBECOM]
"Joint Memory Frequency and Computing Frequency Scaling for Energy-efficient DNN Inference"
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in GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference,
2025
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[IEEE ICC]
"DVFS-Aware DNN Inference on GPUs: Latency Modeling and Performance Analysis"
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in ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications,
2025
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[2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)]
"WHALES: A Multi-Agent Scheduling Dataset for Enhanced Cooperation in Autonomous Driving"
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in 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
2025
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[IEEE INFOCOM]
"On the Impact of Mobility in Asynchronous Federated Learning over Device-to-Device Networks"
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in IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS),
2025
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[International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)]
"Nonparametric Teaching for Graph Property Learners"
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in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
2025
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[IEEE ICC]
"Joint Optimization of Offloading, Batching and DVFS for Multiuser Co-Inference"
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in ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications,
2025
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[2025 IEEE 31th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)]
"FedTeddi: Temporal Drift and Divergence Aware Scheduling for Timely Federated Edge Learning"
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in 2025 IEEE 31th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS),
2025
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[IEEE GLOBECOM]
"Distributed Activity Detection for Cell-Free Hybrid Near-Far Field Communications"
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in GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference,
2025
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[IEEE ICC]
"AEPHORA: AI/ML-Based Energy-Efficient Proactive Handover and Resource Allocation"
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in ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications,
2025
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2024
[IEEE WCNC]
"RSU-Aided Energy-Efficient Collaborative Perception for Connected Autonomous Vehicles"
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in 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),
2024
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[IEEE WCNC]
"Joint Frame Structure and Beamwidth Optimization for Integrated Localization and Communication"
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in 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),
2024
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[2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring)]
"Infrastructure-Assisted Collaborative Perception in Automated Valet Parking: A Safety Perspective"
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in 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring),
2024
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[IEEE WCNC]
"CPU-Utilization-Aware Scheduling for In-Vehicle Distributed Computing"
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in 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),
2024
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Journal Articles
2026
[IEEE TMC]
"Robust DNN Partitioning and Resource Allocation Under Uncertain Inference Time"
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in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
2026
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[IEEE TMC]
"Mobility-Aware Asynchronous Federated Learning With Dynamic Sparsification"
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in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
2026
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[IEEE TMC]
"FedCGD: Collective Gradient Divergence Optimized Scheduling for Wireless Federated Learning"
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in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
2026
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[IEEE T-ITS]
"Energy-Efficient Collaborative Perception: A Block-Skipping DNN Approach With Dynamic Frequency Scaling and Environment Awareness"
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in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
2026
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[IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters]
"DPNet: Doppler LiDAR Motion Planning for Highly-Dynamic Environments"
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in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,
2026
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[IEEE TVT]
"C-MASS: Combinatorial Mobility-Aware Sensor Scheduling for Collaborative Perception With Second-Order Topology Approximation"
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in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
2026
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DOI
2025
[IEEE WCL]
"Mixture of Experts-Augmented Deep Unfolding for Activity Detection in IRS-Aided Systems"
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in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,
2025
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[China Comm.]
"Agile coverage for low-altitude aerial intelligent networks: A blended hyper-cellular solution"
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in China Communications,
2025
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[IEEE TMC]
"Robust Task Offloading and Resource Allocation Under Imperfect Computing Capacity Information in Edge Intelligence Systems"
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in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
2025
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[IEEE TWC]
"Dynamic Scheduling for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Enhanced Federated Learning"
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in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
2025
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[IEEE Wireless Commun.]
"Venus: A RISC-V Domain Specific Architecture Towards Integrated AI and Wireless Baseband Processing for 6G Edge Intelligence"
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in IEEE Wireless Communications,
2025
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[IEEE TVLSI]
"Unlimited Vector Processing for Wireless Baseband Based on RISC-V Extension"
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in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
2025
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[IEEE JSAC]
"SNAKE: Sequential Continual Learning for Knowledge Extension over Communication-Constrained Networks"
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in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,
2025
[IEEE TPDS]
"SMDP-Based Dynamic Batching for Improving Responsiveness and Energy Efficiency of Batch Services"
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in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
2025
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[IEEE IoT-J]
"Near-Sensor LiDAR and Visual Feature Extraction and Communication for Low-Latency Roadside Cooperative Perception"
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in IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
2025
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[IEEE TVT]
"Mobility Accelerates Learning: Convergence Analysis on Hierarchical Federated Learning in Vehicular Networks"
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in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
2025
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[IEEE TCCN]
"Image Analysis Oriented Integrated Sensing and Communication via Intelligent Reflecting Surface"
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in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking,
2025
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[IEEE TIT]
"Grouping-Based Cyclic Scheduling Under Age of Correlated Information Constraints"
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in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
2025
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[IEEE TCCN]
"FlexGen: Efficient On-Demand Generative AI Service With Flexible Diffusion Model in Mobile Edge Networks"
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in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking,
2025
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2024
[IEEE TVT]
"Learning-Assisted User Scheduling and Beamforming for mmWave Vehicular Networks"
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in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
2024
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[IEEE Network]
"Task-Oriented Wireless Communications for Collaborative Perception in Intelligent Unmanned Systems"
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in IEEE Network,
2024
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[JCIN]
"Resource Allocation for Channel Estimation in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Multi-Cell Networks"
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in Journal of Communications and Information Networks,
2024
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[IEEE TMC]
"QMNet: Importance-Aware Message Exchange for Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning"
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in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
2024
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[IEEE TNSM]
"Multi-Agent DRL-Based Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in V2X Communications"
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in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,
2024
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[Entropy]
"Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Coded Computing with Hierarchical Task Partitioning"
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in Entropy,
2024
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