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Dusit Niyato

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Pseudo-Random TDM-MIMO FMCW Based Millimeter-Wave Sensing and Communication Integration for UAV Swarm

The integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) can achieve the sharing of hardware and spectrum resources, enabling efficient data transmission and environmental sensing. This fusion is particularly important for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, as it enhances the overall performance, flexibility, and efficiency of such systems. To facilitate the collaborative operations among UAVs, this paper proposes an ISAC solution based on the pseudo-random time-division multiplexing (TDM)-multiple input multiple output (MIMO) millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW). Specifically, a novel ISAC chirp waveform is proposed to modulate data in both the delay domain and complex amplitude, while also possessing high-precision sensing capabilities. To address challenges in the TDM-MIMO, we utilize the pseudo-random antenna selection and compressed sensing algorithms, ensuring that the maximum unambiguous velocity is not compromised. Moreover, by employing a chirp-division multiple access scheme, we propose an interference-free multiple antenna transmission scheme to achieve dynamic allocation of time-frequency resources and multi-user transmission. Finally, we propose a communication and sensing fusion-based dynamic iterative computation scheme, simultaneously achieving data demodulation and sensing parameter estimation. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve ISAC under the dynamic flight scenarios of UAVs. Meanwhile, the scheme outperforms the mmWave-LoRadar in communication and sensing performance, yet its sensing performance is slightly lower than that of the traditional FMCW. Under the urban clutter modeling, the scheme still maintains favorable robustness despite a certain degree of performance degradation.

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Internet of Agents: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges

With the rapid proliferation of large language models and vision-language models, AI agents have evolved from isolated, task-specific systems into autonomous, interactive entities capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting without human intervention. As these agents proliferate across virtual and physical environments, from virtual assistants to embodied robots, the need for a unified, agent-centric infrastructure becomes paramount. In this survey, we introduce the Internet of Agents (IoA) as a foundational framework that enables seamless interconnection, dynamic discovery, and collaborative orchestration among heterogeneous agents at scale. We begin by presenting a general IoA architecture, highlighting its hierarchical organization, distinguishing features relative to the traditional Internet, and emerging applications. Next, we analyze the key operational enablers of IoA, including capability notification and discovery, adaptive communication protocols, dynamic task matching, consensus and conflict-resolution mechanisms, and incentive models. Finally, we identify open research directions toward building resilient and trustworthy IoA ecosystems.

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Toward Efficient and Privacy-Aware eHealth Systems: An Integrated Sensing, Computing, and Semantic Communication Approach

Real-time and contactless monitoring of vital signs, such as respiration and heartbeat, alongside reliable communication, is essential for modern healthcare systems, especially in remote and privacy-sensitive environments. Traditional wireless communication and sensing networks fall short in meeting all the stringent demands of eHealth, including accurate sensing, high data efficiency, and privacy preservation. To overcome the challenges, we propose a novel integrated sensing, computing, and semantic communication (ISCSC) framework. In the proposed system, a service robot utilises radar to detect patient positions and monitor their vital signs, while sending updates to the medical devices. Instead of transmitting raw physiological information, the robot computes and communicates semantically extracted health features to medical devices. This semantic processing improves data throughput and preserves the clinical relevance of the messages, while enhancing data privacy by avoiding the transmission of sensitive data. Leveraging the estimated patient locations, the robot employs an interacting multiple model (IMM) filter to actively track patient motion, thereby enabling robust beam steering for continuous and reliable monitoring. We then propose a joint optimisation of the beamforming matrices and the semantic extraction ratio, subject to computing capability and power budget constraints, with the objective of maximising both the semantic secrecy rate and sensing accuracy. Simulation results validate that the ISCSC framework achieves superior sensing accuracy, improved semantic transmission efficiency, and enhanced privacy preservation compared to conventional joint sensing and communication methods.

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Aerial RIS-Enhanced Communications: Joint UAV Trajectory, Altitude Control, and Phase Shift Design

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a pivotal technology for enhancing wireless networks. Compared to terrestrial RIS deployed on building facades, aerial RIS (ARIS) mounted on quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) offers superior flexibility and extended coverage. However, the inevitable tilt and altitude variations of a quadrotor UAV during flight may lead to severe beam misalignment, significantly degrading ARIS's performance. To address this challenge, we propose a Euler angles-based ARIS control scheme that jointly optimizes the altitude and trajectory of the ARIS by leveraging the UAV's dynamic model. Considering the constraints on ARIS flight energy consumption, flight safety, and the transmission power of a base station (BS), we jointly design the ARIS's altitude, trajectory, phase shifts, and BS beamforming to maximize the system sum-rate. Due to the continuous control nature of ARIS flight and the strong coupling among variables, we formulate the problem as a Markov decision process and adopt a soft actor-critic algorithm with prioritized experience replay to learn efficient ARIS control policies. Based on the optimized ARIS configuration, we further employ the water-filling and bisection method to efficiently determine the optimal BS beamforming. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms benchmarks in both convergence and communication performance, achieving approximately 14.4\% improvement in sum-rate. Moreover, in comparison to the fixed-horizontal ARIS scheme, the proposed scheme yields more adaptive trajectories and significantly mitigates performance degradation caused by ARIS tilting, demonstrating strong potential for practical ARIS deployment.

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From Agentification to Self-Evolving Agentic AI for Wireless Networks: Concepts, Approaches, and Future Research Directions

Self-evolving agentic artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new paradigm for future wireless systems by enabling autonomous agents to continually adapt and improve without human intervention. Unlike static AI models, self-evolving agents embed an autonomous evolution cycle that updates models, tools, and workflows in response to environmental dynamics. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of self-evolving agentic AI, highlighting its layered architecture, life cycle, and key techniques, including tool intelligence, workflow optimization, self-reflection, and evolutionary learning. We further propose a multi-agent cooperative self-evolving agentic AI framework, where multiple large language models (LLMs) are assigned role-specialized prompts under the coordination of a supervisor agent. Through structured dialogue, iterative feedback, and systematic validation, the system autonomously executes the entire life cycle without human intervention. A case study on antenna evolution in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) demonstrates how the framework autonomously upgrades fixed antenna optimization into movable antenna optimization. Experimental results show that the proposed self-evolving agentic AI autonomously improves beam gain and restores degraded performance by up to 52.02%, consistently surpassing the fixed baseline with little to no human intervention and validating its adaptability and robustness for next-generation wireless intelligence.

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Learning Function-to-Function Mappings: A Fourier Neural Operator for Next-Generation MIMO Systems

Next-generation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, characterized by extremely large-scale arrays, holographic surfaces, three-dimensional architectures, and flexible antennas, are poised to deliver unprecedented data rates, spectral efficiency and stability. However, these advancements introduce significant challenges for physical layer signal processing, stemming from complex near-field propagation, continuous aperture modeling, sub-wavelength antenna coupling effects, and dynamic channel conditions. Conventional model-based and deep learning approaches often struggle with the immense computational complexity and model inaccuracies inherent in these new regimes. This article proposes a Fourier neural operator (FNO) as a powerful and promising tool to address these challenges. The FNO learns function-to-function mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, making them exceptionally well-suited for modeling complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations based on electromagnetic wave propagation. We first present the fundamental principles of FNO, demonstrating its mesh-free nature and function-to-function ability to efficiently capture global dependencies in the Fourier domain. Furthermore, we explore a range of applications of FNO in physical-layer signal processing for next-generation MIMO systems. Representative case studies on channel modeling and estimation for novel MIMO architectures demonstrate the superior performance of FNO compared to state-of-the-art methods. Finally, we discuss open challenges and outline future research directions, positioning FNO as a promising technology for enabling the enormous potential of next-generation MIMO systems.

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LMM-Incentive: Large Multimodal Model-based Incentive Design for User-Generated Content in Web 3.0

Web 3.0 represents the next generation of the Internet, which is widely recognized as a decentralized ecosystem that focuses on value expression and data ownership. By leveraging blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies, Web 3.0 offers unprecedented opportunities for users to create, own, and monetize their content, thereby enabling User-Generated Content (UGC) to an entirely new level. However, some self-interested users may exploit the limitations of content curation mechanisms and generate low-quality content with less effort, obtaining platform rewards under information asymmetry. Such behavior can undermine Web 3.0 performance. To this end, we propose \textit{LMM-Incentive}, a novel Large Multimodal Model (LMM)-based incentive mechanism for UGC in Web 3.0. Specifically, we propose an LMM-based contract-theoretic model to motivate users to generate high-quality UGC, thereby mitigating the adverse selection problem from information asymmetry. To alleviate potential moral hazards after contract selection, we leverage LMM agents to evaluate UGC quality, which is the primary component of the contract, utilizing prompt engineering techniques to improve the evaluation performance of LMM agents. Recognizing that traditional contract design methods cannot effectively adapt to the dynamic environment of Web 3.0, we develop an improved Mixture of Experts (MoE)-based Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm for optimal contract design. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed MoE-based PPO algorithm over representative benchmarks in the context of contract design. Finally, we deploy the designed contract within an Ethereum smart contract framework, further validating the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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A Contemporary Survey on Semantic Communications:Theory of Mind, Generative AI, and Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding

Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The most significant obstacle lies in the lack of standardization across various research directions, leading to inconsistencies in interpretation, objectives, and evaluation. In this survey, we provide an in-depth overview of three leading directions in semantic communication, namely Theory of Mind-based semantic communication, Generative AI-driven semantic communication, and Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (DJSCC)-based semantic communication. These directions have been extensively studied and developed by research institutes worldwide, and their effectiveness continues to improve alongside advances in communication and computing technologies. The ToM-based semantic communication enables communication agents to interact intelligently, infer each other's intentions, and gradually form a shared understanding. The GAI-based semantic communication leverages generative models to create and interpret content beyond traditional compression, allowing flexible semantic encoding and decoding tailored to specific tasks. The DJSCC-based semantic communication direction integrates DL models to jointly optimize the source and channel coding processes for efficient semantic information transfer. Next, we present a detailed survey of existing works under each direction and open research problems in semantic communication. Furthermore, we identify and analyze critical challenges, such as scalability and adaptability, that currently hinder the deployment of semantic communication systems. Finally, we discuss potential research opportunities and future directions such as quantum computing to further enhance the capabilities of semantic communication.

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From Literature to Insights: Methodological Guidelines for Survey Writing in Communications Research

The rapid growth of communications and networking research has created an unprecedented demand for high-quality survey and tutorial papers that can synthesize vast bodies of literature into coherent understandings and actionable insights. However, writing impactful survey papers presents multifaceted challenges that demand substantial effort beyond traditional research article composition. This article provides a systematic, practical roadmap for prospective authors in the communications research community, drawing upon extensive editorial experience from premier venues such as the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. We present structured guidelines covering seven essential aspects: strategic topic selection with novelty and importance, systematic literature collection, effective structural organization, critical review writing, tutorial content development with emphasis on case studies, comprehensive illustration design that enhances comprehension, and identification of future directions. Our goal is to enable junior researchers to craft exceptional survey and tutorial articles that enhance understanding and accelerate innovation within the communications and networking research ecosystem.

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Is FISHER All You Need in The Multi-AUV Underwater Target Tracking Task?

It is significant to employ multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to execute the underwater target tracking task collaboratively. However, it's pretty challenging to meet various prerequisites utilizing traditional control methods. Therefore, we propose an effective two-stage learning from demonstrations training framework, FISHER, to highlight the adaptability of reinforcement learning (RL) methods in the multi-AUV underwater target tracking task, while addressing its limitations such as extensive requirements for environmental interactions and the challenges in designing reward functions. The first stage utilizes imitation learning (IL) to realize policy improvement and generate offline datasets. To be specific, we introduce multi-agent discriminator-actor-critic based on improvements of the generative adversarial IL algorithm and multi-agent IL optimization objective derived from the Nash equilibrium condition. Then in the second stage, we develop multi-agent independent generalized decision transformer, which analyzes the latent representation to match the future states of high-quality samples rather than reward function, attaining further enhanced policies capable of handling various scenarios. Besides, we propose a simulation to simulation demonstration generation procedure to facilitate the generation of expert demonstrations in underwater environments, which capitalizes on traditional control methods and can easily accomplish the domain transfer to obtain demonstrations. Extensive simulation experiments from multiple scenarios showcase that FISHER possesses strong stability, multi-task performance and capability of generalization.

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A Synergy of Computing Power Networks and Low-Altitude Economy Intelligent Communications: Challenges, Design Principles, and Research Directions

The rapid development of the Low-Altitude Economy (LAE) has created opportunities for emerging services such as autonomous aerial transportation, aerial sensing, and emergency response, all of which rely on efficient and intelligent communications. However, LAE intelligent communications face several challenges, including the limited computational capacity of aerial nodes, the lack of cross-scenario generalization, and the complexity of heterogeneous demands. Meanwhile, Computing Power Networks (CPNs) have emerged as a new paradigm for integrating distributed computing, networking, and storage resources, but they are also constrained by static deployment and limited adaptability. In this survey, we explore the synergy between LAE intelligent communications and CPNs. We first analyze how CPNs can support LAE intelligent communications in areas such as air-ground collaborative control, AI training, communication-computation co-ptimization, and ubiquitous low-altitude information processing. Conversely, we discuss how LAE intelligent communications can enhance CPNs through mobility-assisted control, distributed intelligent training, dynamic routing, and in-network aerial computing. Finally, based on these insights, we outline design principles and future research directions for integrated CPN-LAE systems. This work provides a comprehensive foundation for building flexible, adaptive, and resilient architectures that leverage the synergy between CPNs and LAE to deliver high-quality and sustainable low-altitude services.

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Generative Video Semantic Communication via Multimodal Semantic Fusion with Large Model

Despite significant advancements in traditional syntactic communications based on Shannon's theory, these methods struggle to meet the requirements of 6G immersive communications, especially under challenging transmission conditions. With the development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), progress has been made in reconstructing videos using high-level semantic information. In this paper, we propose a scalable generative video semantic communication framework that extracts and transmits semantic information to achieve high-quality video reconstruction. Specifically, at the transmitter, description and other condition signals (e.g., first frame, sketches, etc.) are extracted from the source video, functioning as text and structural semantics, respectively. At the receiver, the diffusion-based GenAI large models are utilized to fuse the semantics of the multiple modalities for reconstructing the video. Simulation results demonstrate that, at an ultra-low channel bandwidth ratio (CBR), our scheme effectively captures semantic information to reconstruct videos aligned with human perception under different signal-to-noise ratios. Notably, the proposed ``First Frame+Desc." scheme consistently achieves CLIP score exceeding 0.92 at CBR = 0.0057 for SNR > 0 dB. This demonstrates its robust performance even under low SNR conditions.

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RIS-assisted Data Collection and Wireless Power Transfer in Low-altitude Wireless Networks

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have become effective solutions for collecting data from low-power Internet-of-Things devices (IoTDs) in remote areas with limited communication infrastructure. However, some outdoor IoTDs deployed in such areas face both energy constraints and low-channel quality challenges, making it challenging to ensure timely data collection from these IoTDs in LAWNs. In this work, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled data collection and wireless power transfer system in LAWN. Specifically, IoTDs first harvest energy from a low-altitude UAV, and then upload their data to the UAV by applying the time division multiple access (TDMA) protocol, supported by an RIS to improve the channel quality. To maintain satisfactory data freshness of the IoTDs and save energy for an energy-constrained UAV, we aim to minimize the age of information (AoI) and energy consumption of the UAV by jointly optimizing the RIS phase shits, UAV trajectory, charging time allocation, and binary IoTD scheduling. We propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach, namely the alternating optimization-improved parameterized deep Q-network (AO-IPDQN). Specifically, considering that RIS typically contains a large number of reflecting elements, we first adopt an alternating optimization (AO) method to optimize the RIS phase shifts to reduce the dimension of the action space. Then, we propose the improved parameterized deep Q-network (IPDQN) method to deal with the hybrid action space. Simulation results indicate that AO-IPDQN approach achieves excellent performance relative to multiple comparison methods across various simulation scenarios.

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CollaPipe: Adaptive Segment-Optimized Pipeline Parallelism for Collaborative LLM Training in Heterogeneous Edge Networks

The increasing demand for intelligent mobile applications has made multi-agent collaboration with Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) essential in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. However, training LLMs in such environments remains challenging due to heavy computation, high end-to-end latency, and limited model generalization. We introduce CollaPipe, a hybrid distributed learning framework that integrates collaborative pipeline parallelism with federated aggregation to support self-evolving intelligent networks. In CollaPipe, the encoder part is adaptively partitioned into variable-sized segments and deployed across mobile devices for pipeline-parallel training, while the decoder is deployed on edge servers to handle generative tasks. Then we perform global model update via federated aggregation. To enhance training efficiency, we formulate a joint optimization problem that adaptively allocates model segments, micro-batches, bandwidth, and transmission power. We derive and use a closed-form convergence bound to design an Dynamic Segment Scheduling and Resource Allocation (DSSDA) algorithm based on Lyapunov optimization, ensuring system stability under long-term constraints. Extensive experiments on downstream tasks with Transformer and BERT models show that CollaPipe improves computation efficiency by up to 15.09%, reduces end-to-end latency by at least 48.98%, and cuts single device memory usage by more than half, enabling online learning in heterogeneous and dynamic communication environments.

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MetaTrading: An Immersion-Aware Model Trading Framework for Vehicular Metaverse Services

Timely updating of Internet of Things data is crucial for achieving immersion in vehicular metaverse services. However, challenges such as latency caused by massive data transmissions, privacy risks associated with user data, and computational burdens on metaverse service providers (MSPs) hinder the continuous collection of high-quality data. To address these challenges, we propose an immersion-aware model trading framework that enables efficient and privacy-preserving data provisioning through federated learning (FL). Specifically, we first develop a novel multi-dimensional evaluation metric for the immersion of models (IoM). The metric considers the freshness and accuracy of the local model, and the amount and potential value of raw training data. Building on the IoM, we design an incentive mechanism to encourage metaverse users (MUs) to participate in FL by providing local updates to MSPs under resource constraints. The trading interactions between MSPs and MUs are modeled as an equilibrium problem with equilibrium constraints (EPEC) to analyze and balance their costs and gains, where MSPs as leaders determine rewards, while MUs as followers optimize resource allocation. To ensure privacy and adapt to dynamic network conditions, we develop a distributed dynamic reward algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning, without acquiring any private information from MUs and other MSPs. Experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks, achieving improvements in IoM of 38.3% and 37.2%, and reductions in training time to reach the target accuracy of 43.5% and 49.8%, on average, for the MNIST and GTSRB datasets, respectively. These findings validate the effectiveness of our approach in incentivizing MUs to contribute high-value local models to MSPs, providing a flexible and adaptive scheme for data provisioning in vehicular metaverse services.

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Joint Power and Spectrum Orchestration for D2D Semantic Communication Underlying Energy-Efficient Cellular Networks

Semantic communication (SemCom) has been recently deemed a promising next-generation wireless technique to enable efficient spectrum savings and information exchanges, thus naturally introducing a novel and practical network paradigm where cellular and device-to-device (D2D) SemCom approaches coexist. Nevertheless, the involved wireless resource management becomes complicated and challenging due to the unique semantic performance measurements and energy-consuming semantic coding mechanism. To this end, this paper jointly investigates power control and spectrum reuse problems for energy-efficient D2D SemCom cellular networks. Concretely, we first model the user preference-aware semantic triplet transmission and leverage a novel metric of semantic value to identify the semantic information importance conveyed in SemCom. Then, we define the additional power consumption from semantic encoding in conjunction with basic power amplifier dissipation to derive the overall system energy efficiency (semantic-value/Joule). Next, we formulate an energy efficiency maximization problem for joint power and spectrum allocation subject to several SemCom-related and practical constraints. Afterward, we propose an optimal resource management solution by employing the fractional-to-subtractive problem transformation and decomposition while developing a three-stage method with theoretical analysis of its optimality guarantee and computational complexity. Numerical results demonstrate the adequate performance superiority of our proposed solution compared with different benchmarks.

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Joint AoI and Handover Optimization in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network

Despite the widespread deployment of terrestrial networks, providing reliable communication services to remote areas and maintaining connectivity during emergencies remains challenging. Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations offer promising solutions with their global coverage capabilities and reduced latency, yet struggle with intermittent coverage and limited communication windows due to orbital dynamics. This paper introduces an age of information (AoI)-aware space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) architecture that leverages a high-altitude platform (HAP) as intelligent relay between the LEO satellites and ground terminals. Our three-layer design employs hybrid free-space optical (FSO) links for high-capacity satellite-to-HAP communication and reliable radio frequency (RF) links for HAP-to-ground transmission, and thus addressing the temporal discontinuity in LEO satellite coverage while serving diverse user priorities. Specifically, we formulate a joint optimization problem to simultaneously minimize the AoI and satellite handover frequency through optimal transmit power distribution and satellite selection decisions. This highly dynamic, non-convex problem with time-coupled constraints presents significant computational challenges for traditional approaches. To address these difficulties, we propose a novel diffusion model (DM)-enhanced dueling double deep Q-network with action decomposition and state transformer encoder (DD3QN-AS) algorithm that incorporates transformer-based temporal feature extraction and employs a DM-based latent prompt generative module to refine state-action representations through conditional denoising. Simulation results highlight the superior performance of the proposed approach compared with policy-based methods and some other deep reinforcement learning (DRL) benchmarks.

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Cooperative UAV-mounted RISs-assisted Energy-efficient Communications

Cooperative reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are promising technologies for 6G networks to support a great number of users. Compared with the fixed RISs, the properly deployed RISs may improve the communication performance with less communication energy consumption, thereby improving the energy efficiency. In this paper, we consider a cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle-mounted RISs (UAV-RISs)-assisted cellular network, where multiple RISs are carried and enhanced by UAVs to serve multiple ground users (GUs) simultaneously such that achieving the three-dimensional (3D) mobility and opportunistic deployment. Specifically, we formulate an energy-efficient communication problem based on multi-objective optimization framework (EEComm-MOF) to jointly consider the beamforming vector of base station (BS), the location deployment and the discrete phase shifts of UAV-RIS system so as to simultaneously maximize the minimum available rate over all GUs, maximize the total available rate of all GUs, and minimize the total energy consumption of the system, while the transmit power constraint of BS is considered. To comprehensively solve EEComm-MOF which is an NP-hard and non-convex problem with constraints, a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II with a continuous solution processing mechanism, a discrete solution processing mechanism, and a complex solution processing mechanism (INSGA-II-CDC) is proposed. Simulations results demonstrate that the proposed INSGA-II-CDC can solve EEComm-MOF effectively and outperforms other benchmarks under different parameter settings. Moreover, the stability of INSGA-II-CDC and the effectiveness of the improved mechanisms are verified. Finally, the implementability analysis of the algorithm is given.

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