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Liuguo Yin

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Orchestrating Communication, Computing, and Energy Transfer for Wireless-Powered 6G Closed-Loop Controls

Future sixth generation (6G) communications are expected to support robotic control tasks in applications such as industrial automation and emergency response, where sensors, computing units, and robots are interconnected via nervous system-like networks to form sensing-communication-computing-control (SC3) closed loops. However, the limited battery capacities of devices within these SC3 loops constrain operational duration and degrade control efficiency, particularly in remote or post-disaster scenarios. To address this challenge, wireless power transfer (WPT) can be leveraged to provide continuous energy supply for SC3 closed loops. In this paper, we investigate a wireless-powered SC3 system, where a satellite transfers energy via radio frequency (RF) signals to support the communication and computing processes of multiple SC3 closed loops. By accounting for the intricate coupling among computing, communication, and energy transfer, we propose a holistic design framework to enhance overall control performance. Specifically, we adopt the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) cost as the performance metric and formulate a sum LQR cost minimization problem. The uplink/downlink transmit power, bandwidth allocation, computing capability, communication/computing time allocation, and WPT power allocation are jointly optimized. We recast the problem into a more tractable form and develop an iterative algorithm to solve it. For the special case of a single loop, we further analyze the properties of optimal solutions in energy-limited scenarios to provide insights for practical parameter configuration. Simulation results demonstrate the performance gains of the proposed scheme.

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Optimal Feedback Schemes for Dirty Paper Channels With State Estimation at the Receiver

In the literature, it has been shown that feedback does not increase the optimal rate-distortion region of the dirty paper channel with state estimation at the receiver (SE-R). On the other hand, it is well-known that feedback helps to construct low-complexity coding schemes in Gaussian channels, such as the elegant Schalkwijk-Kailath (SK) feedback scheme. This motivates us to explore capacity-achieving SK-type schemes in dirty paper channels with SE-R and feedback. In this paper, we first propose a capacity-achieving feedback scheme for the dirty paper channel with SE-R (DPC-SE-R), which combines the superposition coding and the classical SK-type scheme. Then, we extend this scheme to the dirty paper multiple-access channel with SE-R and feedback, and also show the extended scheme is capacity-achieving. Finally, we discuss how to extend our scheme to a noisy state observation case of the DPC-SE-R. However, the capacity-achieving SK-type scheme for such a case remains unknown.

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Digital-Analog Transmission based Emergency Semantic Communications

Emergency Wireless Communication (EWC) networks adopt the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to transmit scene images in real time for quickly assessing the extent of the damage. However, existing UDP-based EWC exhibits suboptimal performance under poor channel conditions since UDP lacks an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) mechanism. In addition, future EWC systems must not only enhance human decisionmaking during emergency response operations but also support Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven approaches to improve rescue efficiency. The Deep Learning-based Semantic Communication (DL-based SemCom) emerges as a robust, efficient, and taskoriented transmission scheme, suitable for deployment in UDP based EWC. Due to the constraints in hardware capabilities and transmission resources, the EWC transmitter is unable to integrate sufficiently powerful NN model, thereby failing to achieve ideal performance under EWC scene. For EWC scene, we propose a performance-constrained semantic coding model, which considers the effects of the semantic noise and the channel noise. Then, we derive Cramer-Rao lower bound of the proposed semantic coding model, as guidance for the design of semantic codec to enhance its adaptability to semantic noise as well as channel noise. To further improve the system performance, we propose Digital-Analog transmission based Emergency Semantic Communication (DAESemCom) framework, which integrates the analog DL-based semantic coding and the digital Distributed Source Coding (DSC) schemes to leverage their respective advantages. The simulation results show that the proposed DA-ESemCom framework outperforms the classical Separated Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) and other DL-based Joint Source-Channel Coding (DL-based JSCC) schemes in terms of fidelity and detection performances.

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Generative AI Driven Task-Oriented Adaptive Semantic Communications

Task-Oriented Semantic Communication (TOSC) has been regarded as a promising communication framework, serving for various Artificial Intelligence (AI) task driven applications. The existing TOSC frameworks focus on extracting the full semantic features of source data and learning low-dimensional channel inputs to transmit them within limited bandwidth resources. Although transmitting full semantic features can preserve the integrity of data meaning, this approach does not attain the performance threshold of the TOSC. In this paper, we propose a Task-oriented Adaptive Semantic Communication (TasCom) framework, which aims to effectively facilitate the execution of AI tasks by only sending task-related semantic features. In the TasCom framework, we first propose a Generative AI (GAI) architecture based Generative Joint Source-Channel Coding (G-JSCC) for efficient semantic transmission. Then, an Adaptive Coding Controller (ACC) is proposed to find the optimal coding scheme for the proposed G-JSCC, which allows the semantic features with significant contributions to the AI task to preferentially occupy limited bandwidth resources for wireless transmission. Furthermore, we propose a generative training algorithm to train the proposed TasCom for optimal performance. The simulation results show that the proposed TasCom outperforms the existing TOSC and traditional codec schemes on the object detection and instance segmentation tasks at all considered channel conditions.

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The Evolution of Quantum Secure Direct Communication: On the Road to the Qinternet

Communication security has to evolve to a higher plane in the face of the threat from the massive computing power of the emerging quantum computers. Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) constitutes a promising branch of quantum communication, which is provably secure and overcomes the threat of quantum computing, whilst conveying secret messages directly via the quantum channel. In this survey, we highlight the motivation and the status of QSDC research with special emphasis on its theoretical basis and experimental verification. We will detail the associated point-to-point communication protocols and show how information is protected and transmitted. Finally, we discuss the open challenges as well as the future trends of QSDC networks, emphasizing again that QSDC is not a pure quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol, but a fully-fledged secure communication scheme.

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Generic Security Analysis Framework for Quantum Secure Direct Communication

Quantum secure direct communication provides a direct means of conveying secret information via quantum states among legitimate users. The past two decades have witnessed its great strides both theoretically and experimentally. However, the security analysis of it still stays in its infant. Some practical problems in this field to be solved urgently, such as detector efficiency mismatch, side-channel effect and source imperfection, are propelling the birth of a more impeccable solution. In this paper, we establish a new framework of the security analysis driven by numerics where all the practical problems may be taken into account naturally. We apply this framework to several variations of the DL04 protocol considering real-world experimental conditions. Also, we propose two optimizing methods to process the numerical part of the framework so as to meet different requirements in practice. With these properties considered, we predict the robust framework would open up a broad avenue of the development in the field.

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Loophole-free plug-and-play quantum key distribution

Robust, simple, and flexible quantum key distribution (QKD) is vital for realising practical applications of this technique. Contrary to typical phase-coded QKD schemes, the plug-and-play QKD design requires only one arm-length-insensitive interferometer without active feedback, in which the noise is automatically compensated by the two-way structure. However, there are certain possible loopholes in the typical plug-and-play designs, which require consideration and strict monitoring. This study proposes a loophole-free plug-and-play QKD scheme with two-way protocol and presents an experimental demonstration of said scheme. The security is analysed under a collective attack scenario assisted by the decoy state method. The scheme was implemented in a 50.4 km commercial fibre without active feedback. The system showed highly robust performance with an ultra-low error rate and maintained an ultra-high visibility of 0.9947+/-0.0002 through significant environmental changes over 24 hours.

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Experimental free-space quantum secure direct communication and its security analysis

We report an experimental implementation of free-space quantum secure direct communication based on single photons. The quantum communication scheme uses phase encoding, and the asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer is optimized so as to automatically compensate phase drift of the photons during their transitions over the free-space medium. An information transmission rate of 500 bps over a 10-meter free space with a mean quantum bit error rate of 0.49%$\pm$0.27% is achieved. The security is analyzed under the scenario that Eve performs collective attack and photon number splitting collective attack. Our results show that quantum secure direct communication is feasible in free space.

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Implementation and Security Analysis of Practical Quantum Secure Direct Communication

Fast development of supercomputer and perspective quantum computer is posing increasing serious threats to communication security. Based on the laws of quantum mechanics, quantum communication offers provable security of communication, and is a promising solution to counter such threats. Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) is one of the important branches of quantum communication. Different from other branches of quantum communication, it transmits secret information directly. Recently, remarkable progress has been made in the proof-of-principle experimental demonstrations of QSDC. However, it remains a technical feast to march QSDC into practical application. Here, we report an implementation of practical quantum secure communication system. The security is analyzed in the Wyner wiretap channel theory. The system uses a coding scheme based on concatenation of low density parity check (LDPC) codes, which works in a regime with realistic environment of high noise and high loss. The present system operates with a repetition rate of 1 MHz, and at a distance of 1.5 kilometers. The secure communication rate is 50 bps, which can effectively send text message and files such as image and sounds with a reasonable size.

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LDPC-Based Code Hopping for Gaussian Wiretap Channel With Limited Feedback

This paper presents a scheme named code hopping (CodeHop) for gaussian wiretap channels based on nonsystematic low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Different from traditional communications, in the CodeHop scheme, the legitimate receiver (Bob) rapidly switches the parity-check matrix upon each correctly received source message block. Given an authenticated public feedback channel, the transmitter's (Alice) parity-check matrix can also be synchronized with the receiver's. As a result, once an eavesdropper (Eve) erroneously decodes a message block, she may not be able to follow the update of subsequent parity-check matrices. Thus, the average BER of Eve will be very close to $0.5$ if the transmitted number of message blocks is large enough. Focused on the measure of security gap defined as the difference of channel quality between Bob and Eve, numerical results show that the CodeHop scheme outperforms other solutions by sufficiently reducing the security gap without sacrificing the error-correcting performance of Bob.

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Rateless Codes with Progressive Recovery for Layered Multimedia Delivery

This paper proposes a novel approach, based on unequal error protection, to enhance rateless codes with progressive recovery for layered multimedia delivery. With a parallel encoding structure, the proposed Progressive Rateless codes (PRC) assign unequal redundancy to each layer in accordance with their importance. Each output symbol contains information from all layers, and thus the stream layers can be recovered progressively at the expected received ratios of output symbols. Furthermore, the dependency between layers is naturally considered. The performance of the PRC is evaluated and compared with some related UEP approaches. Results show that our PRC approach provides better recovery performance with lower overhead both theoretically and numerically.

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