Cooperation and Integration in 6g Heterogeneous Networks: Resource Allocation and Networking

To provide ubiquitous and various services, 6G networks tend to be more comprehensive and multidimensional by integrating current terrestrial networks with space-/air-based information networks and marine information networks; then, heterogeneous network resources, as well as different types of users and data, will be also integrated. Driven by the exponentially growing demands of multimedia data traffic and computation-heavy applications, 6G heterogenous networks are expected to achieve a high QoS with ultra-reliability and low latency. In response, resource allocation has been considered an important factor that can improve 6G performance directly by configuring heterogeneous communication, computing and caching resources effectively and efficiently. 

The book addresses a range of technical issues in cooperative resource allocation and information sharing for the future 6G heterogenous networks, from the terrestrial ultra-dense networks and space-based networks to the integrated satellite-terrestrial networks, as well as introducing the effects of cooperative behavior among mobile users on increasing capacity, trustworthiness and privacy. For the cooperative transmission in heterogeneous networks, the authors commence with the traffic offloading problems in terrestrial ultra-dense networks, and the cognitive and cooperative mechanisms in heterogeneous space-based networks, the stability analysis of which is also provided. Moreover, for the cooperative transmission in integrated satellite-terrestrial networks, the authors present a pair of dynamic and adaptive resource allocation strategies for traffic offloading, cooperative beamforming and traffic prediction based cooperative transmission. Later, the authors discuss the cooperative computation and caching resource allocation in heterogeneous networks, with the highlight of providing our current studies on the game theory, auction theory and deep reinforcement learning based approaches. Meanwhile, theauthors introduce the cooperative resource and information sharing among users, in which capacity oriented-, trustworthiness oriented-, and privacy oriented cooperative mechanisms are investigated. Finally, the conclusion is drawn.

Jun Du received her B.S. in information and communication engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, in 2009, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. From Oct. 2016 to Sept. 2017, Dr. Du was a sponsored researcher, and she visited Imperial College London. Currently she is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. Her research interests are mainly in communication, networking, resource allocation, and system security problems of heterogeneous networks and space-based information networks. She has authored/co-authored 70+ technical papers in renowned international journals and conferences, including 30+ renowned IEEE journal papers. Dr. Du is the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from IEEE Global SIP in 2015, the Best Paper Award from IEEE ICC 2019, the Best Paper Award from IWCMC in 2020, and the WuWenJun Young Elite Scientist Award from CAAI in 2020.

Chunxiao Jiang is an associate professor in the School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. degree in information engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, in 2008 and his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2013, both with the highest honors. His research interests include application of game theory, optimization, and statistical theories to communication, networking, and resource allocation problems, in particular space networks and heterogeneous networks. Dr. Jiang has served as an Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Letters, and a Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He has also served as a member of the technical program committee as well as the Symposium Chair for a number of international conferences, including IEEE CNS 2020 Publication Chair, IEEE WCSP 2019 Symposium Chair, IEEE ICC 2018 Symposium Co-Chair, IWCMC 2020/19/18 Symposium Chair, WiMob 2018 Publicity Chair, ICCC 2018 Workshop Co-Chair, and ICC 2017 Workshop Co-Chair. Dr. Jiang is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE GLOBECOM in 2013, the Best Student Paper Award from IEEE GlobalSIP in 2015, IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2017, the Best Paper Award IWCMC in 2017, IEEE ComSoc TC Best Journal Paper Award of the IEEE ComSoc TC on Green Communications & Computing 2018, IEEE ComSoc TC Best Journal Paper Award of the IEEE ComSoc TC on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling 2018, the Best Paper Award from ICC 2019, IEEE VTS Early Career Award 2020. He received the Chinese National Second Prize in Technical Inventions Award in 2018 and Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund Award in 2019.

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