Publications

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Most Recent Works

Journal Papers

1. Kaiming Shen, Ziping Zhao, Yannan Chen, Zepeng Zhang, and Hei V. Cheng, “Accelerating Quadratic Transform and WMMSE”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2024. [Codes]

2. Wenhai Lai, Wenyu Wang, Fan Xu, Xin Li, Shaobo Niu, and Kaiming Shen, “Adaptive Blind Beamforming for Intelligent Surface”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024.

3. Wenyu Wang, Minhao Zhu, Kaiming Shen, Zhaorui Wang, and Shuguang Cui, “Power Allocation for Finite-Blocklength IR-HARQ”, IEEE Communications Letters, 2024.

4. Qingqing Wu, Beixiong Zheng, Changsheng You, Lipeng Zhu, Kaiming Shen, Xiaodan Shao, Weidong Mei, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Ertugrul Basar, Lingyang Song, Marco Di Renzo, Zhi-Quan Luo, and Rui Zhang, “Intelligent Surfaces Empowered Wireless Network: Recent Advances and The Road to 6G”, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024.

5. Wenhai Lai, Zheyu Wu, Yi Feng, Kaiming Shen, and Ya-Feng Liu, “An Efficient Convex-Hull Relaxation Based Algorithm for Multi-User Discrete Passive Beamforming”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2024.

6. Fan Xu, Jiawei Yao, Wenhai Lai, Kaiming Shen, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Blind Beamforming for Coverage Enhancement with Intelligent Reflecting Surface”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024.

7. Xiaomei Luo, Zhuochen Jiang, Fan Xu, Xiaoyang Li, Guangxu Zhu, and Kaiming Shen, “Sum-Rate Maximization for STAR-RIS-Assisted Multi-User Networks With Hardware Impairments”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1503-1507, May 2024.

8. Fan Xu, Jiawei Yao, Wenhai Lai, Kaiming Shen, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Coordinating Multiple Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces without Channel Information”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Jan. 2024.

9. Yannan Chen, Yi Feng, Xiaoyang Li, Licheng Zhao, Kaiming Shen, “Fast Fractional Programming for Multi-Cell Integrated Sensing and Communications”, submitted, 2024.

10. Yannan Chen, Licheng Zhao, and Kaiming Shen, “Mixed Max-and-Min Fractional Programming for Wireless Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Jan. 2024. [Codes]

11. Shuyi Ren, Kaiming Shen, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “A Linear Time Algorithm for the Optimal Discrete IRS Beamforming”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Mar. 2023. [Codes], [Erratum]

12. Shuyi Ren, Kaiming Shen, Yaowen Zhang, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Configuring Intelligent Reflecting Surface with Performance Guarantees: Blind Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Mar. 2023. [Video], [Slides], [Codes]

Conference Papers

1. Yannan Chen, Beichen Huang, Licheng Zhao, and Kaiming Shen, “Multidimensional Fractional Programming for Normalized Cuts”, in Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec. 2024.

2. Kaiming Shen, Ziping Zhao, Yannan Chen, Zepeng Zhang, and Hei V. Cheng, “Accelerating Quadratic Transform and WMMSE”, in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2024.

3. Wenhai Lai and Kaiming Shen, “Blind Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface: A Reinforcement Learning Approach”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Apr. 2024.

4. Mingxiao Li, Rui Jin, Liyao Xiang, Kaiming Shen, and Shuguang Cui, “Crossword: A Semantic Approach to Text Compression via Masking”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Apr. 2024.

5. Shuyi Ren, Beichen Huang, Xiaoyang Li, and Kaiming Shen “ Aerial-IRS-Assisted Load Balancing in Downlink Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Apr. 2024.

6. Fupei Chen, Liyao Xiang, Hei V. Cheng, and Kaiming Shen, “Deep Learning Enabled Semantic-Secure Communication with Shuffling”, in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2023.

7. Wenyu Wang, Wenhai Lai, Shuyi Ren, Liyao Xiang, Xin Li, Shaobo Niu, and Kaiming Shen, “Adaptive Beamforming for Non-Line-Of-Sight IRS-Assisted Communications Without CSI”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sept. 2023.

8. Yannan Chen, Licheng Zhao, and Kaiming Shen, “Max-and-Min Fractional Programming for Communications and Sensing”, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Sept. 2023.

9. Fan Xu, Jiawei Yao, Wenhai Lai, Kaiming Shen, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Blind Beamforming for Multiple-IRS Assisted Wireless Transmission”, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Sept. 2023.

10. Yannan Chen, Licheng Zhao, Yaowen Zhang, and Kaiming Shen, “Inverse Quadratic Transform for Minimizing a Sum of Ratios”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2023.

11. Zepeng Zhang, Ziping Zhao, and Kaiming Shen, “Enhancing the Efficiency of WMMSE and FP for Beamforming by Minorization-Maximization”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2023.

12. Jiawei Yao, Fan Xu, Wenhai Lai, Kaiming Shen, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Blind Beamforming for Multiple Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”, in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2023.

Book Chapter

1. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “A Perspective on Fractional Programming for Communications System Design”, Frontiers of Science Awards, 2024.

2. Kaiming Shen and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Blind Beamforming for IRS without Channel Estimation”, in Intelligent Surfaces Empowered 6G Wireless Network, Wiley, 2023.

Selected Journal Papers

1. Xiaoyang Li, Guangxu Zhu, Kaiming Shen, Kaifeng Han, Kaibin Huang, and Yi Gong, “Energy Efficient Wireless Crowd Labelling: Joint Annotator Clustering and Power Control”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Mar. 2023.

2. Kaiming Shen, Wei Yu, Xihan Chen, and Saeed Reza Khosravirad, “Energy Efficient HARQ for Ultrareliability via a Novel Outage Probability Bound and Geometric Programming”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Sept. 2022.

3. Yang Li, Shutao Zhang, Xiaohui Ren, Jianhang Zhu, Jiajie Huang, Pengcheng He, Kaiming Shen, Zhiqiang Yao, Jie Gong, Tsunghui Chang, Qingjiang Shi, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Real-World Wireless Network Modeling and Optimization: From Model/Data-Driven Perspective”, Chinese Journal of Electronics, Nov. 2022.

4. Wei Guo, Ran Li, Chuan Huang, Xiaoqi Qin, Kaiming Shen, and Wei Zhang, “Joint Device Selection and Power Control for Wireless Federated Learning”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol 40, no. 8, pp. 2395-2410, Aug. 2022.

5. Yaowen Zhang, Kaiming Shen, Shuyi Ren, Xin Li, Xin Chen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Configuring Intelligent Reflecting Surface with Performance Guarantees: Optimal Beamforming”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, May 2022. [Codes]

6. Kaiming Shen, Reza K. Farsani, and Wei Yu, “Capacity Limits of Full-Duplex Cellular Network”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1415-1432, Mar. 2021.

7. Kaiming Shen, Hei V. Cheng, Xihan Chen, Yonina C. Eldar, and Wei Yu, “Enhanced Channel Estimation in Massive MIMO via Coordinated Pilot Design”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 6872-6885, Nov. 2020.

8. Xihan Chen, Kaiming Shen, Hei Victor Cheng, An Liu, Wei Yu, and Min-Jian Zhao, “Power Control for Massive MIMO Systems with Nonorthogonal Pilots”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 614-616, Mar. 2020.

9. Xiaoyang Li, Guangxu Zhu, Kaiming Shen, Wei Yu, Yi Gong, and Kaibin Huang, “Joint Annotator-and-Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks for Crowd Labelling”, IEEE Transactions on Wiress Communications, nov. 19, no. 9, pp. 6116-6129, Sept. 2019.

10. Kaiming Shen, Wei Yu, Licheng Zhao, and Daniel P. Palomar, “Optimization of MIMO Device-to-Device Networks via Matrix Fractional Programming: A Minorization-Maximization Approach”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 2164-2177, Oct. 2019. [Codes]

11. Xihan Chen, Hei Victor Cheng, Kaiming Shen, An Liu, and Minjian Zhao, “Stochastic Transceiver Optimization in Multi-Tags Symbiotic Radio Systems”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 9144-9157, Sept. 2019.

12. Xihan Chen, Hei Victor Cheng, Kaiming Shen, An Liu, Wei Yu, and Min-Jian Zhao, “Mixed-Timescale Beamforming and Power Splitting for Massive MIMO aided SWIPT IoT Network”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 78-82, Sept. 2020.

13. Wei Cui, Kaiming Shen, and Wei Yu, “Spatial Learning for Wireless Scheduling”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol 37, no. 6, pp. 1248-1266, Mar. 2019.

14. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Fractional Programming for Communication Systems–Part I: Power Control and Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 2616-2630, May 2018. [Codes]

15. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Fractional Programming for Communication Systems–Part II: Uplink Scheduling via Matching”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 2631-2644, May 2018. [Codes]

16. Kaiming Shen, Ya-Feng Liu, David Y. Ding, and Wei Yu, “Flexible Multiple Base Station Association and Activation for Downlink Heterogeneous Networks”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 1498-1502, Oct. 2017.

17. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Distributed Pricing-Based User Association for Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1100-1113, June 2014.

Selected Conference Papers

1. Wenyu Wang and Kaiming Shen, “A New Outage Probability Bound for IR-HARQ and Its Application to Power Adaptation”, in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Dec. 2022.

2. Yaowen Zhang, Shuyi Ren, Kaiming Shen, and Zhi-Quan Luo, “Optimal Discrete Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface”, in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2021.

3. Wei Cui, Kaiming Shen, and Wei Yu, “Deep Learning for Robust Power Control for Wireless Networks”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2020.

4. Xiaoyang Li, Guangxu Zhu, Kaiming Shen, Yi Gong, and Kaibin Huang, “Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks for Crowd Labelling”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2020.

5. Kaiming Shen, Saeed R. Khosravirad, and Wei Yu, “Ultra-Reliable Wireless Communications via Incremental Redundancy and Space-Time Coding”, in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Workshop on Future Wireless Access for Industrial IoT, Dec. 2019

6. Kaiming Shen, Reza K. Farsani, and Wei Yu, “Achievable Rates and Outer Bounds for Full-Duplex Relay Broadcast Channel with Side Message”, in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2019.

7. Kaiming Shen,Wei Yu, and Saeed R. Khosravirad, “A Rate-Splitting Approach to Ultrareliable Real-Time Wireless Systems” (invited), in IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), July 2019.

8. Alaa Alameer Ahmad, Jaber Kakar, Hayssam Dahrouj, Anas Chaaban, Kaiming Shen, Aydin Sezgin, Tareq Y Al-Naffouri, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, “Rate Splitting and Common Message Decoding for MIMO C-RAN Systems”, in IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), July 2019.

9. Kaiming Shen, Yonina C. Eldar, and Wei Yu, “Coordinated Pilot Design for Massive MIMO”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2019.

10. Kaiming Shen, Reza Khosravi, and Wei Yu, “Capacity Limits of Full-Duplex Cellular Network” (invited), in IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Nov. 2018.

11. Wei Cui, Kaiming Shen, and Wei Yu, “Spatial Learning for Wireless Scheduling”, in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2018.

12. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Interference Management in Full-Duplex Wireless Cellular Networks via Fractional Programming” (invited), in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), June 2018.

13. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “FPLinQ: A Cooperative Spectrum Sharing Strategy for Device-to-Device Communications”, in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany, June 2017.

14. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Load and Interference Aware Joint Cell Association and User Scheduling in Uplink Cellular Networks”, in IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Edinburgh, UK, July 2016.

15. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Coordinated Uplink Scheduling and Beamforming for Wireless Cellular Networks via Sum-of-Ratio Programming and Matching”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, March 2016.

16. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “A Coordinated Uplink Scheduling and Power Control Algorithm for Multicell Networks” (invited), in Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, U.S.A., Nov. 2015.

17. Kaiming Shen and Wei Yu, “Downlink Cell Association Optimization for Heterogeneous Networks via Dual Coordinate Descent”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.

Ph.D. Thesis

Fractional Programming for Communication System Design, University of Toronto, 2020. [thesis]