Northeastern University Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Lab






Biography

Hai Cheng received the B.Eng. degree from Xidian University, China, in 2015, and the M.S. degree from ShanghaiTech University, China, in 2018. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering with Institute for Wireless IoT, Northeastern University. His research interests include machine learning and optimization in wireless network systems.

Research

  • Wireless Networks

  • Signal Processing

  • Machine Learning

Publications

Articles in Journals

  • S. D'Oro, M. Polese, L. Bonati, H. Cheng, and T. Melodia, "dApps: Distributed Applications for Real-time Inference and Control in O-RAN," IEEE Communications Magazine, vo. 60, no. 11, Nov. 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • B. Azari, H. Cheng, N. Soltani, H. Li, Y. Li, M. Belgiovine, T. Imbiriba, S. D’Oro, T. Melodia, Y. Wang, P. Closas, K. Chowdhury, D. Erdogmuz "Automated Deep Learning-based Wide-band Receiver," Computer Networks, vol. 218, Computer Networks, Dec. 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • N. Soltani, H. Cheng, M. Belgiovine, Y. Li, H. Li, B. Azari, S. D'Oro, T. Imbiriba, T. Melodia, P. Closas, Y. Wang, D. Erdogmus, K. Chowdhury "Neural Network-based OFDM Receiver for Resource Constrained IoT Devices," IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol 5, no. 3, pp. 158-164, 2022. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • H. Cheng, L. Bertizzolo, S. D'Oro, J. Buczek, T. Melodia, and E. S. Bentley "Learning to Fly: A Distributed Deep-Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software-Defined UAV Network Control," IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] [VIDEO]

  • H. Cheng, X. Yuan and T. Yang, "Generalized Signal-Space Alignment Based Physical-Layer Network Coding for Distributed MIMO Systems," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 48430-48444, 2019. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • H. Cheng, X. Yuan, and Y. Tan, “Generalized compute-compress-and-forward,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 462–481, Jan 2019. [pdf] [bibtex]

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • H. Cheng, P. Johari, M. A. Arfaoui, F. Periard, P. Pietraski, G. Zhang, T. Melodia, "Real-Time AI-Enabled CSI Feedback Experimentation with Open RAN," Proc. of IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS), Chamonix, France, January 2024. [pdf] [bibtex]

  • H. Cheng, X. Yuan, and Y. Tan, “Compute-compress-and-forward:new results,” in Proc. 2017 IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore, Dec. 4-8 2017.

  • H. Cheng, X. Yuan and T. Yang, "Optimized signal-space alignment for physical-layer network cod- ing over distributed MIMO system," 2017 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Qingdao, Oct. 22-24 2017.