Professor Xiaoli Chu
PhD, BEng
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor in Wireless Communications
x.chu@sheffield.ac.uk
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Professor Xiaoli Chu
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Profile
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I received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiao Tong University in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005.
From September 2005 to April 2012, I was with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s College London.
I am interested in the modelling, analysis and algorithm design for improving the performance and efficiency of wireless communication systems.
My current research focuses on heterogeneous and small cell networks, wireless communications in unlicensed spectrum, and cloud/mobile-edge/fog/device-to-device assisted radio access networks.
These are all key enabling technologies for 5G and future mobile communications. I am the lead editor/author of the book “Heterogeneous Cellular Networks – Theory, Simulation and Deployment” published by Cambridge University Press (May 2013) and the book “4G Femtocells: Resource Allocation and Interference Management” published by Springer US (November 2013).
I am co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society 2017 Young Author Best Paper Award.
I am Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and the IEEE Communications Letters, and was Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the ACM/Springer Journal of Mobile Networks & Applications.
I was Co-Chair of Wireless Communications Symposium for the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2015 (ICC’15), Workshop Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications 2013 (GreenCom’13), and have organised a number of workshops on heterogeneous and small cell networks and ultra-dense networks for IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, and PIMRC.
- Research interests
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- 5G/6G enabling technologies: air interface and transmission technologies, network architecture, and resource allocation
- Integration and coordination of communication, computing, sensing, control and localization
- Wireless networked control of mobile robotic objects, e.g., autonomous driving, IoT industry automation
- Cloud/edge/fog/device-computing-assisted radio access networks
- Energy efficiency and sustainability in wireless communications, including wireless energy transfer and harvesting
- Dynamic and intelligent spectrum sharing and accessing
- Space-air-ground-sea integrated networks
Research projects
- Publications
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Journal articles
- An adaptive U-Net framework for dermatological lesion segmentation. Displays, 92, 103290-103290.
- LLM-Based Emulation of the Radio Resource Control Layer: Towards AI-Native RAN Protocols. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1-1.
- Spectrum Sharing for Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks: A Spherical Poisson Hole Process-Based Approach. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 7, 2013-2033.
- An LLM-Based Framework for Beamforming Optimization. IEEE Communications Magazine, 1-7.
- Low-Latency Content Delivery in High-Speed Railway Communication Systems Enabled by Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1-1.
- Symbiotic Backscatter Communication: A Design Perspective on the Modulation Scheme of Backscatter Devices. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1-1.
- Soft Actor-Critic-Based Offloading and Resource Allocation Optimisation for Digital Twin-Aided Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 1-6.
- AI-Driven Channel State Information (CSI) Extrapolation for 6G: Current Situations, Challenges and Future Research. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 1-1.
- Swarm Intelligence Based Social-Aware Edge Caching in D2D-Enabled Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 1-20.
- A Multi-granularity-based Method for Efficient Identification of Probabilistic Cloning Attacks in Large-scale RFID Systems. IEEE Communications Letters, 1-1.
- Symbol Detection in Ambient Backscatter Communications Under Residual Time Synchronization Errors. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1-1.
- Gaussian Copula-Based Outage Performance Analysis of Fluid Antenna Systems: Channel Coefficient-or Envelope-Level Correlation Matrix?. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 1-1.
- Optimal configuration for STAR-RIS-assisted low-latency V2I communication systems. Journal of Information and Intelligence.
- Enabling 6G Through Multi-Domain Channel Extrapolation: Opportunities and Challenges of Generative Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Communications Magazine, 1-7.
- SSNet: Flexible and robust channel extrapolation for fluid antenna systems enabled by an self-supervised learning framework. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1-1.
- Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Ultra-Dense Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Mean Field Learning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 1-18.
- A Sparse Transformer-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Model for Robust Node Importance Ranking in Complex Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 1-21.
- Throughput-Delay-Reliability Analysis of a Novel URLLC Uplink Multiple Access Scheme. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 1-1.
- LLM-based task offloading and resource allocation in satellite edge computing networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. View this article in WRRO
- Resource Allocation for Multi-IoT-Node Mutualistic Symbiotic Radio with Hybrid Long and Short Packets. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1-1.
- Partial Secrecy Performance Analysis for Wirelessly Powered Backscatter Communications. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 1-1.
- Traffic-Aware Predictive Energy Optimization for Control- and User-Plane Separation Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(18), 38887-38900.
- MADQN-Enhanced Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for 6G Low-Altitude Economy Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 1-1.
- Energy efficiency maximization for a relay assisted parasitic symbiotic radio network. IET Communications, 19(1). View this article in WRRO
- Fairness-Guaranteed Joint Access Control, 3-D UAV Trajectory Planning, and Task Scheduling in AGINs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 1-14.
- Resource allocation for coexistence of eMBB and bursty URLLC based on queueing with preemption. Journal of Information and Intelligence, 3(3), 223-241.
- Blockchain and digital twin empowered edge caching for D2D wireless networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 166, 107704-107704.
- Performance Analysis for Hybrid Sub-6-GHz-mmWave-THz Networks With Downlink and Uplink Decoupled Cell Association. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 24(8), 6658-6673.
- Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mixed Cloud/Vehicular-Fog Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 24(9), 8612-8624.
- QoE-guaranteed optimization in MEC-enabled metaverse: an active inference deep reinforcement learning approach. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. View this article in WRRO
- Two-Timescale Optimization for E2E Network Slicing-Aided Cloud-Edge Collaborative Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 74(6), 9777-9789.
- Intelligent Optimizations for UAV, Digital Twin, and ISCC Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1-15.
- LLM-Based Port Selection and Beamforming for Multiuser MISO With Fluid Antenna Systems. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 1-17.
- Energy-Efficient UAV-Enabled MEC Systems: NOMA, FDMA, or TDMA Offloading?. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 1-16.
- On the Strict Secrecy Outage Probability of Wirelessly Powered Backscatter Communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 74(5), 8345-8350.
- Online Learning for Intelligent Thermal Management of Interference-Coupled and Passively Cooled Base Stations. IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 3, 64-79.
- Outage Performance of Relay-Assisted Mutualistic Backscatter Communications Under Energy-Causality Constraint. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 73(7), 4616-4629.
- Adaptive Modulation for Wobbling Drone Air-to-Ground Links in Millimeter-Wave Bands. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(8), 9792-9804.
- Performance Analysis of Cooperative-Aerial-IRS-Assisted Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(4), 3816-3831.
- Open-Source Edge AI for 6G Wireless Networks. IEEE Network, 39(1), 181-188.
- Deployment Strategy of Intelligent Omni-Surface-Assisted Outdoor-to-Indoor Millimeter-Wave Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23(12), 19172-19182.
- Deployment strategy of intelligent omni-surface-assisted outdoor-to-indoor millimeter-wave communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23(12), 19172-19182. View this article in WRRO
- Multiagent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-Based Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for ISAC-Aided 6G V2X Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(20), 33890-33902.
- Hybrid NOMA Offloading With Semi-Dynamic IRS Beamforming in Wireless Powered MEC Systems. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 13(9), 2447-2451.
- E2E Network Slicing Optimization for Control- and User-Plane Separation-Based SAGINs With DRL. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 73(11), 16680-16696.
- Multi-connectivity between terrestrial and non-terrestrial MIMO Systems. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 5, 3245-3262. View this article in WRRO
- Guaranteed Capacity of Uplink URLLC. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 13(8), 2055-2059.
- On the IRS deployment in smart factories considering blockage effects: collocated or distributed?. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23(9), 12084-12098. View this article in WRRO
- Performance Analysis for Ambient Backscatter Communications With Hybrid Long-Short Packets. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 13(5), 1325-1329.
- On the performance of an integrated communication and localization system: an analytical framework. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(7), 10845-10849. View this article in WRRO
- Wireless friendliness evaluation and optimisation for sandwich building materials as reflectors. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 72(3), 2697-2711. View this article in WRRO
- A Matching-Based Pilot Assignment Algorithm for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 73(1), 1453-1457.
- Latency Minimization for UAV-Enabled URLLC-Based Mobile Edge Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23(4), 3298-3311.
- Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted indoor millimeter-wave communications for mobile robots. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(1), 1548-1557. View this article in WRRO
- MADDPG-based joint service placement and task offloading in MEC empowered air-ground integrated networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(6), 10600-10615. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring network reliability by predicting link status based on simplex neural network. Displays, 79, 102457-102457.
- Method and system for general packet network addressing routing and identifier evolution. SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, 53(8), 1629-1629.
- Multiplexing eMBB and URLLC in wireless powered communication networks: a deep reinforcement learning-based approach. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 12(10), 1716-1720. View this article in WRRO
- A physical topology for optimizing partition tolerance in consortium blockchains to reach CAP guarantee bound. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 34(9).
- Distributionally robust optimization based chance-constrained energy management for hybrid energy powered cellular networks. Digital Communications and Networks, 9(3), 797-808.
- System outage probability and diversity analysis of a SWIPT based two-way DF relay network under transceiver hardware impairments. China Communications, 20(10), 120-135.
- Fair and Efficiency Coexistence Between NR-U and WiGig Networks Enabled by a Matching-Based Framework With Forbidden Pairs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(9), 11814-11827.
Conference proceedings
- FL-Assisted Offloading and Resource Allocation in 6G NOMA-Based Low-Altitude Economy Networks. 2025 IEEE 102nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Fall) (pp 1-6), 19 October 2025 - 22 October 2025.
- Energy consumption minimization of air-to-water visible light communications. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) (pp 2057-2062). Montreal, Canada, 8 June 2025 - 8 June 2025. View this article in WRRO
- Low-Latency Content Uploading in Spatial-Aerial Integrated Low Altitude Networks. 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC) (pp 1-5), 7 July 2025 - 10 July 2025.
- Resource Allocation Optimisation for Low-Altitude Economy-Enabled IoT Networks. 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring) (pp 1-6), 17 June 2025 - 20 June 2025.
- On the Performance of Coexisting Passive RIS and Active Relay-Assisted Short-Packet Communications. 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (pp 1-6), 24 March 2025 - 27 March 2025.
- Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in UAV-Assisted Satellite Network Systems. 2024 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) (pp 382-387), 7 August 2024 - 9 August 2024.
- Design, Modelling and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Communications. ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp 4227-4232), 9 June 2024 - 13 June 2024.
Preprints
- Context-Aware Deep Learning for Robust Channel Extrapolation in Fluid Antenna Systems, arXiv.
- AI-Driven Channel State Information (CSI) Extrapolation for 6G: Current Situations, Challenges and Future Research, arXiv.
- Symbol Detection in Ambient Backscatter Communications Under Residual Time Synchronization Errors, arXiv.
- Gaussian Copula-Based Outage Performance Analysis of Fluid Antenna Systems: Channel Coefficient- or Envelope-Level Correlation Matrix?, arXiv.
- Performance Analysis of Single-Antenna Fluid Antenna Systems via Extreme Value Theory, arXiv.
- SSNet: Flexible and robust channel extrapolation for fluid antenna systems enabled by an self-supervised learning framework, arXiv.
- Enabling 6G Through Multi-Domain Channel Extrapolation: Opportunities and Challenges of Generative Artificial Intelligence, arXiv.
- On the IRS Deployment in Smart Factories Considering Blockage Effects: Collocated or Distributed?, arXiv.
- An adaptive U-Net framework for dermatological lesion segmentation. Displays, 92, 103290-103290.
- Teaching activities
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- EEE6224
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Professor
- Departmental Director of Admissions